I decided to get busy living.<\/p>\n
Do you value your values?<\/h3>\n
An advantage of contracting a disease like Parkinson\u2019s is that it clarifies one\u2019s perspective and focus. For instance, I realized that I wasn\u2019t really \u201cvaluing my values,\u201d because I had been spending my time doing other things. The things I called \u201cpriorities\u201d were merely wishful thinking. Real priorities demand our attention. If I say it\u2019s a priority to read a certain number and kind of books, but I never do it, I deceive myself.<\/p>\n
What causes us to behave in this way? Why am I able to spend countless hours staring into the gaping, blue-lit void of my iPhone screen, but seemingly powerless to pick up Hemingway?<\/p>\n
Before my diagnosis, I had claimed that certain goals were important to me\u2014but I was not demonstrating this with my time, energy, and focus. But after that fateful diagnosis, I understood too well that I had finite amounts of all three. I had squandered what I once possessed in greater measure.<\/p>\n
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Deadlier (to me) than Parkinson\u2019s<\/h3>\n
I realized that I had been suffering from a big, fat case of \u201cSomeday Syndrome\u201d\u2014a killer if there ever was one. This insidious mindset allows us to deceive ourselves into believing that \u201csomeday\u201d is a valid plan.<\/p>\n
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- \u201cSomeday I\u2019ll spend more time with the kids.\u201d<\/li>\n
- \u201cSomeday we\u2019ll start investing.\u201d<\/li>\n
- \u201cSomeday I\u2019ll get serious about reaching my fitness goals.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Perhaps you find yourself unable to do the things you want to do, and you can\u2019t seem to stop doing things you don\u2019t want to do. Even St. Paul struggled with this problem. \u201cI don\u2019t really understand myself,\u201d Paul writes, \u201cfor I want to do what is right, but I don\u2019t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sound familiar? Chances are you have become an unwitting slave to behavioral triggers. These triggers are powerful. They can prevent us from following through with our conscious desires. They can replace those conscious desires with unconscious behaviors. And these unconscious behaviors are often counterproductive and even damaging.<\/p>\n
We know them as habits. Automatic behavior patterns that we often feel powerless to resist. This may explain why you feel blocked from your destiny. You may believe that you are somehow unable to muster the discipline to achieve your goals. Take heart! The doors of destiny are not locked but are often held shut by the chains of habit.<\/p>\n\t\t