Its your life, but you wont do it

Its your life, but you wont do it.

Recently one of my friends suggested me to do something to get a job. I took his advise, but never acted on it. After a week or so I called him, the obvious question from him 'have you completing doing it'? I said 'I was not focused and didn't do anything for quite some time due to some reasons'.

He said 'when you have decided that it is your life and you still find excuses! Then it means that it is not your priority'.

His asking made me think. In spite of knowing what we have to do to achieve what we want why cant we do it? We are not in real need of it or we are not really interested in it or we assume that it will just happen since we want it to happen. In fact it will happen just because we want it to happen, but it will happen after a very long time when we don't even need it. Here, time is the factor.

If one needs to get what one wants/needs one has to work for it very hard so that the end results brings some good within time. Say for example, if you want to earn enough to buy a great bike and you earn a lot after you are 90 years of age then whats the point in buying a bike at that age. Your priorities might have probably changed by then. So time is the main factor.

In spite of wanting to do something we don't do it because we are afraid

1. we think we cant do that
2. we might want our self to fail, so that we pity our self
3. we think if other can do that we cant do that.
4. we think we have done enough and we should have got that already.
5. we think we have lot of time and it can be done little later
6. fear of failure
List goes on.

However, one thing should definitely drive us to achieve it. If one have decided that this is his life than how can he find reasons for not doing it!