Waiting to Be Saved: Stop Waiting for Things to Change
What if the thing you're waiting for to make your life better isn't coming—and you have to decide to make the change yourself?
Sometimes we convince ourselves that this year will be different.
Once this busy season is over. Once this difficult situation passes. Once things settle down. Once life gets easier.
Then suddenly months or years have gone by, and we're still standing in the same place.
In this episode of the Slow Living Podcast, Stephanie O'Dea talks about the tendency to wait for something or someone else to make things better.
She shares conversations from mindset coaching calls with women who were feeling sad, stuck, or disappointed that life hadn't changed the way they hoped it would.
The uncomfortable truth is that nothing will change unless you make it change.
And depending on your mood, that can sound either incredibly empowering—or completely overwhelming.
Stephanie talks about taking action, making things happen, and deciding what you can do even when you'd really rather someone else come along and save you.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Why we tend to believe life will get better after the next difficult season
- How waiting for circumstances to change can keep you stuck
- Why taking responsibility for change can feel both empowering and overwhelming
- How to decide what is actually within your control
- Why you don't have to wait for someone else to make things happen
- How small intentional action can help you move forward
You don't have to change everything today. But you do get to decide what happens next.
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