Are you living a Plan B life?
I’m a Plan B kinda girl. Not the morning after pill.
This is not a political statement. I’m talking about another Plan B.
The pill we give ourselves to feel good about our past.
I woke up this morning and realized I’m living my backup plan.
Always have.
Perhaps always will.
What happens inside our head from childhood to adulthood is so subtle.
Plan B can trap us in an endless loop of disappointment
It takes years to realize we’ve been playing a chess game against our biggest fears, while never mastering the winning moves.
We keep making the same plays while someone else goes home the champ.
What mind games do you play with your authentic self?
Why do you keep playing second lineup even though you want to be the star player?
For me, I personally don’t like failure.
It’s much easier to execute a fallback plan wholeheartedly, than it is to go after what I really want.
Here’s a possible explanation.
Plan A was never a plan at all.
Keeping your options open can limit your options
Plan A remained an idea, an ambition, a dream, a distant target, a place where I always wanted to go but never found the road map to get there.
And this is the key difference between Plan A and our backup plan.
Plan B’s usually come with paint-by-number instructions, as an easy afterthought.
Plan A’s require artistry, intuition, dedication, decisiveness and individuality.
Are you living a Plan B life?
Only you can know whether you’re living a Plan B life or not.
It doesn’t matter how successful or unsuccessful you appear to those on the outside.
You know where you’re playing it safe and always have.
You know why you work harder to achieve the accolades of others rather than working toward achieving the personal satisfaction of being true to you.
Playing it safe can kill our spirit
There’s nothing wrong with playing it safe.
In fact, some of us excel at risk mitigation and serve as the interdependent element essential to maintaining homeostasis in the workplace or at home.
There is, however, a slow deterioration of spirit that happens when we spend an imbalanced portion of our time and energy toward mitigating risk rather than living authentically in the moment.
Do you wake up in the morning regretting the night before?
Maybe that’s nature’s way of telling you Plan B will never be enough.
LoveLifeLinks.com believes you can stop living a Plan B life, while growing to love a decisive and thoughtful Plan A.
Remember, you can feel love. Anywhere. Anytime. All the time.
