When Can You Be Who You Want to Be?

There is no time like the present

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Do not wait for the right time, the right situation, or whatever perfect storm you desire. Be who you want to be, right now. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, be who you desire to be.

I have spent a good part of my life struggling with my own identity. This has come in a lot of different forms, but it has mostly been a combination of being indecisive about who I am, concerns about who I was, and in all of that trying to be something for other people. I have spent a lot of my time navel-gazing, pondering imponderables, trying to figure it all out.

I think that everybody does this. The how varies from person to person. Part of the human condition is asking all kinds of questions. We won’t always like the answers, and worse, often we are not asking the right questions.

For a long time, I have been struggling with being who I most desire to be. I have this image of myself at the goal I desire to reach. There I am, healthier, in better physical shape, promoting my writing works and being a person who has the financial security to travel and help others with mindfulness and conscious reality creation.

Current and past reality are in many ways contrary to who I most desire to be. In the past, I worked necessary but…