Be Busy Living: 3 Ways To Stop Watching Life From The Sidelines

Alternative title for this post: “Just Do It”, but Nike seems to have overdone that one a bit.

I’ve been thinking a lot about how interesting other people’s lives seem to appear in social media and how I never feel like I get done what I’d like to. And how I find so much inspiration to do so many things, but never end up doing them.

So here are some thoughts on the matter along with some “goals” of how to change.

Stop Researching & Watching Others

I’m a big-time researcher. I don’t like to jump in to anything until I’ve looked up everything I can look up. I want to know the unknowable. I want to know exactly what’s going to happen before I do something.

You know what? Sometimes you can’t know what’s going to happen. And that’s good!

While I’m watching to see how other people do things and see what happens when they try, I could have been doing it myself. Things like trying a new hobby, leaping to a new job, starting a blog, going to a new club or group…

Life Goal: There comes a time when you need to stop researching and stop watching everyone else while thinking “I bet I could do that”, and do it! See what happens. It could be great! No experience is ever wasted.

Let Your Inspiration Get You Moving

Inspiration is great! Why do you think so many people love Pinterest? All the inspiration you could want at the tip of your fingers. But how many times do we save those little inspirations and don’t let them fuel us into taking action?

Life Goal: Get inspired and then be busy living. Use that inspiration to try that new recipe, or workout, or project.

Stop Watching Other People’s “Greatest Hits”

This is a tough one with how surrounded we are by social media 24/7.

There are some people who just look to have the most enchanted and interesting lives, right? Their Instagram or Facebook are showing their “greatest hits”. It’s just the good stuff. You don’t see the sad and frustrating parts.

Another reason people’s lives look so interesting on social media is because they are out living them! While you’re sitting home spending hours looking at someone’s photos and updates, they are out living.

I can be so guilty of this. I get sucked in to Instagram and then feel like my life doesn’t look as pretty and fun as everyone else. I could be using that time to do interesting and fun things!

I sit and read about people being hugely successful instead of getting up and working hard to live a successful life myself.

Life Goal: Be busy living life and check in on social media once in a while for inspiration and research, and then get back to living life instead of being jealous of snippets of other people’s lives.

Essentially, I want to spend more time doing than researching or watching. I want to be busy living my life!

⇒Tell me I’m not the only one 🙂 Do you get sucked in to social media or spend so much time “researching” that you never just try it?

This post is linked up to Sunshine Life