No to sound mean, but the truth sometimes does sound like it – No one is coming to save you, no one. To drag you from the TV, to do the things you need to do and are not doing for you, to wake and shake you up, to take your hand and point to what you are supposed to do, to motivate you, to make you stop snoozing your alarm, to change your life, outlook and mindset. No one is coming. It’s all on you.

Do you know why you loved being a kid, why it was such a carefree time? You had no responsibility. You were parented and always rescued, someone else made you do the things you didn’t feel like doing, an authority relieved you of the need to decide for yourself. Once you grow up no one ever tells you that now you’ll have to do this for yourself. You’ll have to make yourself do the necessary so that you can become better. Most of the times we whined was because we’re spoiled, because we somehow began to believe that things will sort themselves out, that we deserve something for nothing, because this is how it goes when you’re a child. Your only job, as I’m sure your parents told you back then, was school. Now stakes got higher, life became more complex and you never learnt the mechanisms to deal with that, somewhere in the back of your mind you’re still waiting for the deux ex machina, for an outside force to deliver you and solve everything by divine intervention that requires nothing of you. No one is coming! Stop dwelling and wishing and start moving, no matter how small, just start. You don’t need to write the whole book in a fortnight, start small, build momentum, not empty promises of motivation. You don’t need to run the marathon this year, but start going to the track a couple of times a week and boiling to it.

You don’t need to have it all figured out – you just need to stop waiting to feel like doing something. This will never happen, you’ll never feel like it and no one is coming to the rescue. Rescue yourself, wake up and just do it, fast, before your mind gets a chance to rationalize laziness. Do it!