Ikigai Thought for Today: Never too Late
An Ikigai Thought for Your Day.
Ikigai thought for today…
I remember reading this quote several years ago, and it gave me a renewed belief in possibilities.
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
There is perhaps another thought I merge with Eliot’s, an encouragement from C.S. Lewis.
“We can never know what might have been, but what is to come is another matter entirely.”
C.S. Lewis
Wherever you are in your life, while you can’t change the past, you can change what is to come and be what you ‘might’ have been.
Some of you are reading this and want to make a change and live more in your Ikigai space.
It isn’t too late to be what you might have been…and, I’ll add, what you could still be.
Part of my Ikigai is to Encourage, Empower and Enable people to be all they were meant to be.
I recently joined Jay Abbasi on his marvelous "Unstuck" podcast to explore this idea of being who you were always meant to be.
Here’s a clip to give you a sample of the conversation.
Jay has a unique format that fosters deeper exploration of topics than most podcasts.
Through the story of Sandy, a VP grappling with this very challenge, we delved into how the journey of life can be viewed in two distinct phases:
🌀 First, we build our vessel – accumulating experiences, skills, and achievements. Then comes the life-changing work of uncovering what truly belongs inside that vessel, our Ikigai.
In our discussion, I shared practical strategies for:
🌱 Reconnecting with your essence and purpose
🌿 Aligning daily actions with those values
🌱 Transforming checkbox tasks into meaningful contributions
You can listen to the entire conversation at any of these podcast links.
Apple:
Spotify:
YouTube:
Jay’s Website:
https://jayabbasi.me/podcast/43-meet-sandy/
I love your ikiverse. Isn't it funny how we can identify our ikigai and live by it until the world flips upside-down around us? Yet how cool that we can introspect and meet our ikigai in our shocked state and actually find unconditional support for us in our condition?
How cool that you’re on this podcast! I’ll have a listen in a bit.
I love cheering people on and reminding them that it’s never too late. I will sometimes use myself as an example, in that no one ever asks me when I graduated with my MA in Clinical Psych, nor how old I was, nor what grades I got.
Once I began doing it, and living my best version of myself, there were no questions about how long it took me to arrive there 🤗 ( btw, I was an Economics major in undergrad, with psych courses as electives, and didn’t begin my MA until I was 40, single parenting 2 kids and working 30 hours per week)