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Have you found Someday Island?
By Sean M | November 20, 2009
Someday Isle by Dennis Waitley
There is an island fantasy
A “Someday I’ll” never see
When recession stops, inflation ceases
Our Mortgage is paid, our pay increases
That Someday is where problems end
Where every piece of mail is from a friend
Where the children are sweet, already grown
Where all the nations can go it alone
Where we all retire at forty-one
Playing Football in the island sun
Most unhappy people look to tomorrow
To erase this day’s hardship and sorrow
They put happiness on lay-away
And struggle through a blue today
But happiness cannot be sought
It can’t be earned, it can’t be bought
Life’s most important revelation
It’s the journey that means as much as the
destination
Happiness is where you are right now,
Pushing a pencil or pushing a plow
It’s knocking on doors and making your calls
It’s getting back up after your falls
It’s going to school or standing in line
Tasting defeat, tasting the wine
If you live in the past you become senile
If you live in the future your on Someday I’ll
The fear of results is procrastination
The joy of today is a celebration
You can save, you can slave, trudging mile after mile
But you’ll never set foot on your “Someday I’ll”
When you’ve paid all your dues and put in your time
Out of nowhere comes another Mt. Everest to climb
I have decided Today to make it my Vow
To take Someday I’ll and make it NOW
The following poem really gave me some insight about myself.
I have been living a life wanting to arrive at that Island fantasy called Someday I’ll.
Today I made a decision to build my sailboat, and sail to the Island of where I know my dreams will come true. Someday Island is a place that is full of beauty. It has everything you have ever dreamed of, or you could imagine exist. It is just like the Island off of the famous TV series “Lost”, you can sail for it but you can never reach it. You will spend your entire life sailing in circles searching for this island. You will sail through terrible storms, at times not having enough to eat, hoping that you will reach that beautiful Island.
Then one day you see a glimpse of this beautiful Island. You finally see how close you are because you have done everything you should have done in life. You passed all the trials and tribulations that have come your way. You have sailed through the terrible storms, fought off starvation and disease. You have paid all your dues, now you have the right course set and are on your way. Then out of nowhere a rogue wave comes crashing down on your sail boat destroying it. The once sturdy sailboat is rendered helpless and you are left drifting in the ocean until one day you die.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to become that person who spends their life trying to sail to a place that is almost impossible to get to. Why spend the rest of your life searching for it then die before fulfilling your dream. You can get to that wonderful place but there is only one obstacle or requirement standing in the way of getting to this paradise. The obstacle and requirement is you must sail to an Island that is a prerequisite before you can make your journey. Most of us want to bypass this Island and navigate around it. We even try to take the short cut to the wonderful Island, because getting to this Island requires focus, attention to detail, many rocks to navigate around and even failure along the way.
The Island I am talking about is ACTION Island, a place that you must sail to first before you can do anything. In order to even get to this Island you must choose the right sailboat, and provision it to your needs. This is the first place most people including myself have always made the fatal mistake and in the end this is what causes disaster at sea. When choosing the right sailboat to make this journey, you must have one that can withstand the violent storms, has a strong hull, good safety equipment and the right navigational tools. If you were given the option of standing on a dock looking at a row of sailboats, and you could choose any sailboat to make your journey.
Most of us even with that many choices choose the wrong sailboat, one that is envious with never getting to the destination you set. The name of the sailboat is almost always the same each time; we call this vessel “procrastination” and try to set sail using this doomed sailboat. When we first step foot on our new boat we sometimes seem lost and don’t know where to start.
Your Sailboat might even have the most sophisticated-high tech navigation equipment on the planet. If you’re like me the name of the vessel “procrastination” starts to take shape and you never leave the dock. You have to wait until you know how to use every piece of equipment on board. You might even wait until the next high-tech navigation device is shipped to you, so you can install it before you can ever set sail. Even if what you have now works just fine.
This is also related to life in general, you might wait until your business cards are printed before you can start your business, or you wait until you get your office space, phone system installed, you get the point. When trying to set sail with your new sailboat you say to yourself I will wait until hurricane season is over. Then you say to yourself I will wait until the weather is warmer. Then before you leave you find something minor that you have to repair, this is a never ending cycle of doom.
What I have learned is when you have chosen the correct sailboat and arrived on ACTION Island, this is where everything starts to take shape. Once you reach your ACTION Island you should have realized by now that Someday Island is really a place called Goal Island. Goal Island is a place that you can get to, if you get to ACTION Island first. Goal Island is a destination that you have set up in your mind and have a clear picture of what you want and how to get there. Once Goal Island is clear in your head, you must find it on the map. Once you have found Goal Island you must begin to draw out your route and the details of how you will get there.
Once you are on your way you will have to adjust to all the conditions at sea. This might include storms, pirate ships, equipment malfunctions, and even temporary failure along the way. The most important thing to keep in mind is to keep going. If you have a strong desire to reach Goal Island (just like Columbus did on finding a quicker route) and keep your sailboat heading in the direction of your goal. It is only a matter of time before you will find the treasure you now seek. Now it is time to release the ropes from the dock, and take the first step towards Goal Island by taking ACTION!!!!
The blog post was written by Sean McNeely, except for the poem “Someday Isle” which was written by Dennis Waitley.
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November 21st, 2009 at 4:40 am
Thanks, Sean, for the Inspirational post.
Reminds me of my Seventh Grade Teacher always admonishing us in 1954…
“Someday is NOT a Day of the Week! Get it Going NOW!”
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November 21st, 2009 at 6:19 am
Good article, Chuck. The poem reminded me of an old gospel song, Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. I believe heaven is there and I will reach it when my time comes, but concentrating on that wonderful place at the end of life’s journey will never get us to a place here on earth where our earthly dreams will come true. Yes, heaven is good to contemplate and can be a catalyst to achieving my dreams, but I have to get to Action Island, as Sean McNeely calls it,and launch out into the deep in order to arrive at my earthly destiny.
And yes, I did enjoy that video. Only problem is that there’s something wrong with the link. I had to copy and paste it into my browser.
Keep up the good work.
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