It’s a sobering thing to realize what lies between us and our “somedays” are often silent little thieves.

They create doubt and make us question our abilities, our worth and the validity of our hopes and dreams. They steal our confidence and our ambition. And they leave us feeling defeated before we take a single step toward the someday that always finds its way in the forefront of our mind.

Sure, life gets busy. We’re all stretched thin. There are a plethora of distractions, all vying for urgency in our days.

Yet it’s the somedays our heart craves.

It’s the somedays our spirit longs to revive.

In every life, it’s the somedays that bring fresh hope to the parched places of our soul.

It's our somedays that so desperately need new life breathed into them for the sake of today. Share on X

Perhaps deciding to assign urgency to even one is the first step to getting our minds in the place to deal with the pesky thieves. The ones that keep us running on our daily hampster wheel of productivity and missing the very essence of a life lived fully. A life lived with passion, intention, and creativity.

A life lived loud enough to silence our someday thieves.

What are your somedays? Have you paused to ask why they aren’t a part of your today?

I have. And maybe if you’re like me, it’s time for us to deal with these silent thieves once and for all. Maybe it’s time we face them and put them to rest so we can take back what our hearts have been dreaming of for so long.

Face Your Fears

If I’m honest, one of the biggest distractors from my somedays is fear. For each of us, it takes on different forms, challenging our motives, worth, abilities and so much more.

Fear of failure keeps us locked in our comfort zones, slowly tightening the chains around ambition and imagination until our someday becomes a passing, unreachable notion.

Fear of success chips away at our confidence, whispers lies that we should be content and grateful for where we are and convinces us we are inadequate – that success is better placed at someone else’s doorstep.

What if we just decide to “out” the fear and call it what it is? What if we decide to stop thinking small and embrace the truth that our someday might just be the dream God’s been birthing in our soul all along?

“Waiting to develop courage is just another form of procrastination. The most successful people take action while they’re afraid!”

Let Go of Comparisons

This is a big one. Especially when we actually take a step toward our someday and catch a glimpse of someone else further along the path or living the reward.

Comparisons offer us no favors and only rob us of happiness and joy. They are thieves that damage our self-worth and cast us on the losing end every time. And they simply aren’t true.

Comparisons damage our self-worth and cast us on the losing end every time. Share on X

The truth is, it doesn’t matter who is already living our someday or how they’re doing it. We have the capacity to make it our own. And we have the opportunity to embrace others along the way who can offer insight and wisdom apart from comparison. Because this world is big enough for everyone’s somedays.

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it’s even more than that – Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody – or your soul. ~Ann Voskamp

Strengthen Your Backbone

We live in a world of instant gratification and overnight success stories. But the reality is that most somedays take a lot of hard work and tenacity. When the chaos and storms of life distract…

Find your Brave
Release the notion of needing someone else’s approval.
Define your someday by your own standards
Determine to stay the course, one step at a time.
Trade instant gratification for tenacity.

Eliminate Excuses

Oh, I’m so full of excuses much of the time. How about you? Often, the excuses are thieves cloaked in creativity, but in the end, they cripple us and become self-fulfilling prophecies because we choose to believe what they tell us. And in the midst of the deception, we diminish the unique imprint our heart keeps returning to for fulfillment.

It’s too hard
I don’t have what it takes
I’m too busy
I don’t have enough money
I don’t know where to begin
There will be time for that later

What if we actively bring our excuses into the light and intentionally replace them with reason? How about we choose to silence the excuses with reasons for why we should pursue our someday?

The biggest barrier to our somedays isn’t lack of time or money or resources. It’s an excess of excuses.

Break Free From Lies that Limit

Which lies stand in the way of your someday? What bullies you into submission, until one day flows into another, and the passion for adventure puddles in the corner of complacency.

I’m not worthy
There are too many obstacles
I’m not good enough
I’m not smart enough
I don’t have what it takes

“Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.” ~ Orison Swett Marden

Do Your Homework

It’s no surprise why hard work and homework go together. They compliment each other and provide accountability. Sometimes the best place to begin in realizing our someday is by doing our homework so we are better equipped to make the best decisions to ensure success. Let’s not allow the thieves of the unknown keep us from or someday.

Find out everything you can about your someday
Approach it from different angles
Pour yourself into knowing in anticipation of doing
Talk to people who have gone before

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Invest in You

I’ve recently realized how natural it is for me to invest in everyone else and often at the expense of myself. It’s easy to get unbalanced in helping others invest in their dreams so we don’t have to challenge ourselves to invest in our own.

Let’s take some time to figure out what we need and what’s important to us. Let’s make time each and every day to breathe life into our someday. And let’s adopt some healthy habits to strengthen our body, mind, and soul to better equip ourselves for the journey ahead.

Let’s make time each and every day to breathe life into our someday.

Beginning today, let’s adopt some healthy habits to strengthen our body, mind, and soul to better equip ourselves for the journey ahead.

Participate in Your Someday

Participation is an action word. It requires we do something. It doesn’t have to be big and all-consuming, but it does require taking a step. And then it calls for us to commit to the process of continual stepping.

Connect with a mentor who has gone before and is willing to offer knowledge and inspiration.
Cut through the daily chaos by creating a timeline of goals to stepping toward your someday.
Practice stepping back to evaluate and reposition as needed.
Incorporate daily gratitude for the journey.

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” ~ Dale Carnegie

What does your list of somedays look like? I’ll let you in on a secret...one of my smaller ones has been to start a book club. So, I’ve stepped out and contacted the women I want to join me, and I’m creating my timeline for when to start and how to structure our meeting time. I’m gathering ideas for food, and I’m having a blast just realizing I’m on my way to making one of my somedays a reality.

Is there just one you could choose to make part of your today? I’d love for you to share in the comments!