You have walked past it more than once. You felt it on your left side as you looked right. You thought about it at 2am and replaced the thought with something easier. You know exactly what I am talking about, even though you are hoping I mean something else. There is a thing you have been circling. A conversation. A decision. A direction. A truth about yourself that you keep filing under later. Today is later.
Here is what I have learned about avoidance: it is not laziness and it is not fear, not exactly. It is intelligence wearing the wrong coat. You are smart enough to see that moving toward this thing will change something. The problem is you have been telling yourself that the change is a risk when the reality is the change is the reward. The discomfort you feel standing at the edge of that decision is not a warning signal. It is a readiness signal. Your whole system knows you are built for what is on the other side.
Midweek is where most people lose the plot. Monday's energy fades. Friday feels far. Wednesday is the fulcrum of the week and most people treat it like a waiting room. You are not most people. Wednesday is where clarity lives, if you are willing to sit still long enough to hear it. The noise of the week has burned off. The weekend has not yet pulled your attention forward. Right now, in this moment, you have the clearest mind you will have all week. Use it.
Ask yourself one honest question today. Not a comfortable question. Not the kind of question that lets you off the hook with a reasonable answer. The kind of question that makes you put the phone down and look out a window for a minute. What have I been pretending I do not already know? Because somewhere in you the answer to the next move already exists. You are not lost. You are stalling. There is a profound difference between the two.
Realization without action is just awareness with nowhere to live. So the assignment today is not just to identify the thing you have been avoiding. It is to take one step toward it. One email. One conversation. One decision that has been sitting on your desk with your handwriting on it, waiting for you to sign. You do not have to see the whole staircase. You just have to take the step that is right in front of you and trust that the next one will appear.
The door you have been walking past is still there. It has always been there. It will not lock you out. It has been waiting with patience you do not yet fully appreciate, because it knows something you are still learning: you were always going to open it. The only question was when. Make it today. Make it Wednesday. Make it the day the mystery resolved itself because you finally got curious enough to look.
Thanks for reading,
William Rochelle, but you can call me Bill.
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