Wait Broke the Wagon

Life is short.

Nothing reminds me of this more than spending
time with my 88-year-old father and dying
mother these days, and it’s fresh on my mind
after visiting them this past week.

While I was there, dad used a phrase he’s
repeated to me many times over the years,
“Wait’s what broke the wagon down,”
which translates into, “Take action now or
lose the energy of the moment.”

While I suspect the pioneers of the west coined it,
my research couldn’t pin down exactly where this
particular saying originated. Interestingly, though,
I did discover that Orville Couch used it as the
title of a song he wrote and sang.

If you’re a rockabilly aficionado like me, you might
recognize his name. He was an old country musician
who played back in the days of the Big D Jamboree,
a precursor to the Grand Ole Opry.

Of course, his song is about waiting around for a girl
to love him. (What else would we expect from a good
ol’ country song, right?)

All joking aside, waiting around for anything isn’t
a good idea. In fact, it actually becomes part of
the problem by temporarily stopping the flow of good
things into your life.

Why?

Because withholding yourself from life is like holding
your breath – except in this case you’re holding your
action back.

And, just like you have to release your breath to get
another one, you have to release your action to take
another step.

Now I’m not talking about timing here. Yes, there is
such a thing, but as Terri Cole-Whitaker once said,
“You have to act as if there is no timing.”

The beauty of all this is that when you’re tapped
into your Divine connection in such a way that you
know what to do – what inspired action to take –
there really is no timing. You’re in the flow and
moving in accordance with it.

Life is good.

Waiting, though…that’s something entirely different.

This notion of waiting – waiting for the right
circumstances, the right person, the right moment,
the right amount of money, the right job – operates
like a subtle and covert co-dependency: You’re waiting
for something out there to happen or to be different
in order to do something you want to do.

But its impact on your life is about as subtle as a
stealth missile – it can devastate your financial
well-being, inner peace, confidence, self-esteem,
and relationships.

To be clear, waiting is an action, a signal to the
universe that you’re not ready for what you want.

There’s only one way out of this kind of predicament.

You’ve got to stop putting up with things and decide
you’re not going to live a certain way any longer –
and then act on it by putting yourself on a direct path
of transformation. (If you’re serious, I want to meet
you personally in Austin this November at my event.)

Stop waiting around …

You don’t have to wait to see if the government’s going
to shut down again.

You don’t have to wait to see if you’re going to get
laid off.

You don’t have to wait to see what the stock markets do.

Economic certainty is not out there. You’re never going
to “find” it.

You can only create it.

But first, you have to stop waiting.

Like the pioneers with their wagons, you have to drop
some baggage and travel lighter.

Stop waiting.

Your time is now.

As my father would say, “Wait broke the wagon.”

Go here right now —

http://www.attractmoneynowlive.com

Ao Akua,

Joe

PS — Have faith. Take action. Expect Miracles.

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