When you say you have reservations about something, what are you really saying?

Think of the word – we make reservations at restaurants, hotels and airline ticket counters (well, ok…maybe we do all that online or on the phone now, but you get my drift) and usually those are good things.

Reservations mean that what you want (a table for two, a clean room with a comfortable bed, or your seat on the plane) will be ready and awaiting your arrival. Oh, how we love to make reservations! We’d far rather have the things we want waiting on us than be waiting on the things we want.

So, when you say you have reservations about something, you’re saying you’re waiting, right? Just like the restaurant, hotel and airline that has your reservation is now waiting on you.

So, you’re waiting. Waiting on what?

Waiting on what you want?

Surely not! You know better, after all. You know that what you want isn’t going to drop magically out of the sky into your lap.

Likely, what you’re waiting on has something to do with proof, evidence, a guarantee that if you do this new thing, say these new words, think these new thoughts, what you want will be the result.

Would that it worked that way, huh?

Why do you need proof? A guarantee?

Fear. Plain and simple. In all it’s various forms.

Fear of making mistakes, fear of failure, fear of looking stupid, fear of disappointment, fear of ________ (fill in the blank.)

Yet, the only way to get rid of fear is to do that thing that you fear.

Now, doesn’t that just suck?!

So you have a choice.

You can sit there, safe with your reservations, while what you want remains held hostage by your fears. (If that’s your choice, then hey – ok. You aren’t the first, and you probably won’t be the last. Just don’t delude yourself into thinking it’s something other than your choice.)

OR you can cancel your reservations and stop waiting. You can face those fears and do that new thing, say those new words, think those new thoughts and have a real shot at getting what you want.

It’s up to you.