Waste Not Wednesday

My iPod can do magical things. Today it played me a song. One song to inspire what I can only hope will become months & months worth of inspiration & challenge.

Am I a fool at this late date
To heed a voice that says,
You can be great

I heard it young, now I hear it again
It says, you can be better than you've ever been

Don't want to waste what I have to give
In all of the time that I've left to live
Don't want to waste what I have to give
In any of the time that I've got left
I can do more than I thought I could
Work brings more luck than knocking on wood
There's random bad and random good
Work brings more good luck

You ask the world
And the world says, no
It's the world's refrain
Mine says, go
You ask the world
And the world says, no
It's an old world refrain
Mine says, go

Don't want to waste what I have to give
In all of the time that I've left to live
Don't want to waste what I have to give
In any of the time that I've got left
I can do more than I thought I could
Work brings more luck than knocking on wood
There's random bad and random good
Work brings more good luck

Better be off
I've got dreams to dream
Though it seems uphill and a little extreme
If I can find hope in this fading light
Then I'll find you on the morningside

-John Gorka "Morningside"

I struggle a lot with accomplishing goals. Actually, I don't ever really set goals for myself. I have always felt limited by setting goals. Because of that, I rarely feel accomplished. Always dreaming, never doing. But this song hit me today. It's a simple message really, and I think right now the things I find most profound, are actually the simplest.

I know I was made for bigger things than what I am doing. I can always do more, and I always want to. But being honest with myself, means admitting that I am wasting what I have to give. And I don't want to do that. No longer.

I think we all have a bit of wastefulness in us. When something is too hard, or too inconvenient, or too time consuming, or too much work- we just let the opportunity go. We don't work for more. We settle with what we are doing. And by doing that, we are wasting what we have to give in this world. I, for one, know I could be doing a lot more.

From here on out, I proclaim every Wednesday "Waste not Wednesday". To inspire & encourage us ALL not to waste what we are given. Not to let our talents, desires, & goals sit idly by. To take steps toward accomplishment, fulfillment & inner peace. To LEARN about ourselves so we can know what it is we have to give. We all have the power to make this world a better place. We all have all been given individual gifts to lavish upon the rest of the world. Why are we letting them get dusty? What are we waiting for? What are we afraid of?

I heard it young, now I hear it again
It says, you can be better than you've ever been