Back from a long trip to Europe, and back with my Sunday football picks. My record is currently at 17-3 and I’m ready to keep my good record with this week’s picks.
This week I predict the Texans will win over the Bills. The Bears will beat the Browns. The Lions will win over the Rams. The Jets will defeat the Dolphins. The Chargers will win over the Raiders. The Cardinals will beat the Panthers.
The Saint and the Colts will remain unbeaten, but the Broncos will fall to the Ravens. As for the two “big games” today, I am predicting the Giants will win over the Eagles and Favre will gome home crying in defeat.
Have a great Sunday, and let’s get to today’s blog!
At a recent Bootcamp, I had a conversation with the guys about what I call window shopping your life. I had a conversation about challenging yourself. (This, by the way, is a great example of what we work on during my Bootcamp weekends!)
Most of us window shop in our own lives. Many of us have had tragedies in our lives. As humans, it’s natural to want to change our lives after we survive a catastrophe, but it’s also human that we rarely stick with that plan to change.
We always sweep things under the rug. We all do this. It’s just the way things work. We get shocked into doing something or making a change, but we can’t help continuing to window shop.
So what do I mean when I say that we window shop our lives? It means that we fail to take action and really lead the kind of life we map out for ourselves. We go back to not being fully alive, and just wishing and wanting for the life we want to live.
The term window shopping is a good description, because it is as if we have a glass barrier between our life and the life we want. We can see it, but there is something in our way from actually living it.
A lot of people see this barrier as something that keeps them from having the life they want. In reality, though, we are capable of having that life right now if we take the steps to get it.
Why do we think we can’t have this life? We buy into false limitations. We don’t want to face that we need to take more action.
I often call people who just wait for things to happen in life “waiters.” They want things to change, and they keep hoping things will change on their own without them having to take any action on their part.
Once you begin to stop window shopping and to stop waiting, you will see how much time you’ve been wasting kicking back that you could have been spending living the life you want.
Life is too short, and you only get one! If you don’t take the opportunities now, when are you going to take them? So stop window shopping. Stop waiting. Take action today and start to really live the life you want.
Really resonates with me. I say to myself every day.Tomorrow I will start to really study,really setle down and try to read old posts here for example or to really work on myself.Instead I do all these things but I don’t them as I should.
Don’t know maybe I have a problem I seriosly doubt I will start to learn for example(I’m at the best collage in my town but I think I learn useless stuff) if I don’t think it’s gonna help me in some way.
Thanks for the post David maybe I’ll push me a little harder.
david is window shopping himself too. lol but he wants us not too. greedy man! lol ahahahaha
great post David! You sure have terms for everything. But it’s the first time I read that people “window shopping”. Thanks for the post. I do not want to window shop life!
David,
I really hear you on this one. I know some people that want everything around them to change, yet they are not willing to change a thing about themselves.
I believe the only way to change things around you, is in fact to make changes about yourself. Because very rarely can you change things that are happening around you. Such as traffic, work environment, women, friends, weather, ect.
It is strange how we create this life we live in, but seem to look at it as though we are on the outside waiting for the life we want.Step by step we acquired where we are today but fail to realize that is the Paralysis of monents that lock us out of the life we want.
Steve-O–well put! So true about changing yourself is the way to make things change around you! This is exactly what we talk here…it’s about how you have to focus on you and what you want before anything can happen. Otherwise, we are just buying the same ole crap:)
Oh man, David you’ve been away too long. You looked rusty on your football picks. I bet you’ll be spot on next week though!
It sounds to me that I have to break the window and steal the life I really want.
Hey David, I just want to encourage all of your readers. This is great advice. I actually took it upon myself to do this about 6 months ago and my life is fantastic right now. I will have moments when I catch myself thinking, “I love my life.” I just had to realize that there was no reason I couldn’t start writing a book, designing jewelry, studying for graduate school. I had been waiting for something — now I don’t know what — and in the meantime I was doing nothing I loved. Heck I even love my job more now and it hasn’t changed. I have changed.
Hey David,
Great metaphor! All too often we’re not doing anything (I’ve been guilty for this way too many times) about the shitty aspects of our lives and get caught in the victim mentality.
Bottom line, go out there and TAKE what you DESERVE as the time is NOW
Great reminder to all of us!