Carpe Diem — How to Seize the Day

Don’t wait for life, because life is waiting for you!

Lucy King
Mindset Matters

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Photo by Zac Durant on Unsplash

Are you waiting for something in your life?

Many of us wait for the perfect job to present itself. We wait for our boss to realize we deserve a promotion. We wait for the ideal person to fulfill our romantic dreams, or for everything to fall into place.

Patience is a virtue, right?

Good things come to those who wait, right?

You guessed it — the answer is “not so much.”

If you sit still, passive, waiting for your life to change, the odds are nothing will happen. That’s because your life depends on you, and what you do.

This concept has echos in the law of cause and effect:

The universal law of cause and effect states that there are no accidents in this world and that the effects we create in our lives are a direct result of causes that come from within ourselves.

The bottom line is:

If you are not happy with the effects you have created, then you must change the causes that created them in the first place.

You may feel a key element is lacking. Whether this is skill, money, resources, courage, self-esteem, readiness or whatever. There is a name…

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