Handle it!!

You’re at a point in your life where there is no crossroad, no fork, not even a speed bump.  You’ve reached a great divide.  A rift so wide that it seems impossible to cross.  But you must!  You can’t afford to be stuck where you are, because the ground around the edges of the divide is crumbling.  The longer you stay where you are, the wider the divide becomes.

Does this scenario sound familiar?  Have you found yourself at the edge of the precipice more than once?  How many times have you stood there while the other side became further and further away?  How many times have you allowed yourself to stand on crumbling ground, and then wondered why you were falling?

Procrastination, indecision, and poor planning are your enemies!! Stop letting others talk you out of the things you need to do.  Friends and family mean well, but only you know the specifics of your particular situation.  You know how fast the ground beneath you is crumbling, or how quickly you need to make a decision.  If you waited until the 11^th hour, there is no one to blame but yourself.  Last minute decisions usually don’t account for some important aspect of your situation, and can make things worse.

Your son had a growth spurt this past spring.  You let the hem out of his pants, and tried not to leave them in the dryer too long in order to avoid more shrinkage.  His shirt sleeves were too short, and his shoes hurt his feet.  Now its August, and you’re complaining about not having the money for school clothes.  But wait! Didn’t you just buy a new Dooney & Bourke pocketbook? Playing big spender in front of your friends. Didn’t you just come back from homecoming in Atlanta?  You hadn’t planned to go because you couldn’t afford it, but your girls talked you into it since they learned your old boyfriend was going to be there. When you needed to rent a car for to head down to the party in Virginia Beach you didn’t want the Ford Focus at $125 for the weekend did you?  Oh no no no, you had to have the Lexus at $395 for the same time period! Trying to impress the very ones in the same damn boat as yourself.   How many shirts or pairs of pants could you have bought with the money you blew?  With some planning and forethought, you could have gotten clothes for your baby to start school and still had a good time this summer.

So, take your big girl pill and handle your business the way it’s supposed to be handled!!