Are YOU the One Someone Else is Waiting For?

Runners in a race do not start the race themselves. They wait for someone to give them permission to go for their mutual goal of being the first to break the tape at the finish line. Many of us have spent much of our lives getting on our marks, getting ready to go but never finally getting off the starting line. Why? I think it’s because we’re waiting for someone, perhaps we’re waiting for a particular someone to give us permission to go for our goals.

Who are you waiting for to provide you with the permission you seek before you finally step off the starting line and onto the track toward the fulfillment of your dreams? Whose blessing are you ardently seeking not realizing, perhaps, that this is what you’re after?

William James, the Founder of American Psychology, wrote, “Our chief want in life is for someone to make us do what we can.” We all need someone to appear at some point in our lives to help us see what we are capable of achieving and then to direct us in the most efficient and effective ways of doing what we now know we can. These are the people who are blessings in our lives because they have given us their blessing, their permission to proceed with passion and purpose in the pursuit of our personal goals. They say, often silently, “You may!”

Have you had someone like that in your past? Do you have someone like that in your life now? More importantly, are YOU that someone in someone else’s life who is making them do what they can but didn’t know they could?

Ken