What will it take to pull you out of your comfort zone? Are you stuck on a dead end job and feel there is no way out? Did you lose your job and you have been bellyaching about it ever since? Do you feel that every month there is always more month than money and you don’t know what to do? Have you been beat down so that you feel there is no hope? What has to happen to get you to move out of mediocrity and complacency?

An old hound dog was laying on an old farmer’s porch. A neighbor stopped by to chat with him and while he was there chatting with the old farmer, he noticed that every now and then the old hound dog would raise up and give an ear piercing howl. About the fourth or fifth time, the neighbor asked the old farmer, “What is wrong with your dog?” The old farmer replied, “He’s laying on an old rusty nail.” The neighbor said, “Well, why doesn’t he get up and move?” The old farmer said, “It ain’t hurting him bad enough.

Is that your problem, it’s hurting, but not bad enough? Many find themselves in this spot. You recognize them because the longer you know them you began to hear the same old songs being sung. After awhile you start to ask yourself why don’t they either get revved up to do something or quit with the rhetoric.

At times it has been real easy to look at other people’s problems and give a quick solution, but most of the time that works only for the person who’s ready to change. So how does one who is not their get going? 

The first step, decide where you want to go, what you want the end result to be.

It’s about a decision. Only you can make that decision. I can’t make it for you. And no matter how often you repeat your wows to someone else they are not going to solve your problem.

Perhaps your first decision should be to stop talking about your situation to other people. Keep it to yourself. Yes, you could talk to yourself. At least self won’t answer.

Personally, I have my conversations when I am facing a trial with God. 

Most of the time when we don’t want to solve our problem, we talk to people, pour out our wows on whom we know can’t do anything about it.

You can solve your problem if you choose to, if it’s within your control. Certainly an illness is not within your control.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to get ourselves motivated to move to the next step that we know we should take.

I remember a time in my life when my husband and I didn’t have any income. We both like to fish, so we decided to go fishing, catch the fish, clean them, bag them and sell them. We did that for awhile.

When you decide to do something about your situation a way will be made for you to solve the problem.

You have a choice always in life: you can choose to do something or do nothing to change a circumstance in your life.

But it starts with a DECISION. That is the first step.

Write that decision down. It might read something like this: “I have decided that I am no longer going to be broke. I have decided that I am no longer going to put up with my child’s disobedience and rebellion. I have decided that I am no longer going to be put down by my husband, or my friend. I have decided that I am going to go back to school to get my degree.”

If that is all you can do, and it takes you awhile to get going, that is okay. The fact you said, “I have decided,” sets the spiritual wheels in motion.

Blondie L. Clayton is a Realization Strategist™, Book Publishing and Marketing Coach. She works as freelance writer; hosts the “Author’s Spotlight at www.positivechangeradio.com and www.webtv45.com.       
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