Moving from Everyday to Epic

There’s an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth:
A right time for birth and another for death,
A right time to plant and another to reap,
A right time to kill and another to heal,
A right time to destroy and another to construct,
A right time to cry and another to laugh,
A right time to lament and another to cheer,
A right time to make love and another to abstain,
A right time to embrace and another to part,
A right time to search and another to count your losses,
A right time to hold on and another to let go,
A right time to rip out and another to mend,
A right time to shut up and another to speak up,
A right time to love and another to hate,
A right time to wage war and another to make peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 MSG

There's a time for the everyday responsibilities and there's a time to step into the epic that you've been working towards. I don't believe you can have the epic life without first honoring your everyday responsibilities.

The way my mind works I hadn't earned the opportunity to work full force on my dreams until I had taken care of the first responsibilities.

I needed to pay off my student loans. I needed to save and learn about money to have a strong financial foundation to step into a risk. I needed to get my health in order to physically be able to do some of the things I want to do. I need to strengthen my spirit and my thoughts to work with a healthy outlook on myself and the world around me. 

Part of me feel like those were excuses rather than actual reasons for where I was at in life, but I have reached a point where those reason-excuses are now either gone or well on their way to being handled. My reasons-excuses no longer exist and are now full-out excuses.

Now it's the right time for me to look my epic in the face and see what stares back. 

You want to know how I know it's the right time? Besides the fact that I've responded to most of the reason-excuses, I am being confronted with people talking about it or friends stepping into their own epics, and encouraged by friends who believe in me. 

What's staring back at me now is a bit of fear and work. 

Fear of being a fraud. Fear of being incapable or that I'm moving in the wrong direction. Fear of work.

An epic or a calling doesn't just magically happen. There was a time when sleeping in was ok, when I didn't have to be a master of my time. Now it's time for the discipline to kick in and to get to work. It's not a striving kind of work. It's a work where you know you're walking into what you're called to do and trusting that what will happen will happen.

Moving from Everyday to Epic takes a little faith, discipline and work.

Now's the time.