knowing and doing

In addition to being an aunt, I am also a lacrosse coach. Since I never really played lacrosse, and didn't know much about it when we began our season, I decided that my contribution would be encouragement, and I appointed myself the quote guru. Each day, I email all of our players a new "quote of the day" to inspire them, which inadvertently tends to inspire me, too. One day, I came across a quote that really made me stop and think-- "at the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want." (lao tzu)

And it occurred to me...why is it often so difficult for us to make decisions? A majority of people I know are indecisive...they waver incessantly even on the smallest of decisions. And the thing is, I think a lot of times we really do have the answer...we know in our hearts what we want or what sounds right to us, but for some reason, we have trouble committing to it. Some type of fear holds us back...fear of being wrong, fear of missing out, fear of hurting someone or getting hurt, fear of failure...the list goes on. And so we either decide not to decide, or we let someone else make the decision for us. Shouldn't we begin claiming those decisions for ourselves?

Back to the lacrosse team, I have to take a minute and brag on my girls. They just earned the Division II state championship title. They knew what they wanted, and they got it, and I feel like a proud parent. Way to go, champs.