Someday you will die.
And that’s really the only someday thought you can count on.
The rest of your someday thoughts are like the numbered balls in an old school bingo basket. . .bouncing around, one idea on top of the other. Your dreams tumbling about willy nilly.
And therein lies the problem.
You don’t think of your dreams as possible, and you don’t give them the attention they deserve.
You mostly think of them wistfully, with a tender ‘someday, maybe’ longing.
Someday I’ll travel the world.
Someday I’ll sing on stage.
Someday I’ll be my own boss.
Each one tossed about, spinning endlessly in the basket of your mind.
Whatever your someday desire is, it’s time to get real about the fact that right now – today – it’s neglected, cushioned by the unknown and surrounded by the thousands of negative thoughts you think every single day.
From the book Happy for No Reason by Marci Shimoff:
“Our minds—made up of our thoughts, beliefs, and self-talk—are always ‘on.’ According to scientists, we have about 60,000 thoughts a day. . . And what’s even more startling is that of those 60,000 thoughts, 95 percent are the same thoughts you had yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that. Your mind is like a record player playing the same record over and over again.
Still, that wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for the next statistic: for the average person, 80 percent of those habitual thoughts are negative. That means that every day most people have more than 45,000 negative thoughts. Dr. Daniel Amen, a world-renowned psychiatrist and brain imaging specialist, calls them automatic negative thoughts, or ANTs.”
Basically, your someday thoughts (aka the dreams and desires you’re neglecting) are being trashed by an army of ANTs.
So, how do you stop your dream from being sidetracked by this army of negative Nellies?