And the tap drips

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Not just at 10.15 on a Saturday night as The Cure sang.

The tap drips in our heads all day and all night if we let it. Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.

Worry, fear, anger, frustration, panic, anxiety, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip.

We can, of course, choose to just switch the tap off. Step away from it all.

None of it will really matter, perhaps in a day from now, but in a week from now? For sure not in a month from now, OMG!!! a year from now, really!!

All that matters is now and what we choose to do in this moment. What went before is gone.

I don’t know how to

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Often when faced with a change or a new task, especially one that is likely to take us out of our comfort zone, we use the reason for not starting as ‘I don’t know how to do….’.

So we become stuck and then we search around for other reasons too not to do.

Yet we live in a time where the clever people at Google have indexed almost all the world’s knowledge, courses, coaches, advisors etc into a very simple and easy to use search engine. We can simply type ‘how to…..’ and up will come enough results to keep us occupied for a very long time.

In addition, the kind people at Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many other networks have made it as easy as typing these words to connect with almost anyone who could help us anywhere in the world.

So we can easily access people to help us, we can access billions and billions of websites, articles, pieces of information and so on. We can even ask real people around us to help.

Yet we still say ‘I don’t know how to do…..’.

Perhaps there is something else holding us back? Perhaps we are frightened to learn as that might mean doing something and becoming successful.

‘I don’t know how to…’ is just an excuse.