I recently came across a statement from author Karen Lamb that got my attention. In fact, I wrote it on a sticky note and put it on my computer monitor where I see it every day. Karen Lamb said, “A year from now, you may wish you had started today.” Thought-provoking, isn’t it?
How many ideas have you thought about but never executed? How many goals have you set but didn’t stick with? How many good intentions of eating healthier, exercising, saving money, building relationships, volunteering, connecting with family or friends, starting a business, writing a book, learning a language, working harder in your career have fallen by the wayside? Don’t you wish you had started a few of those initiatives when you thought about them and persevered until you made them a reality?
There are a lot of people who sit around waiting for something good to materialize. They wait for their ship to come in; they wait for the economy to get better; they wait for relationships or their job situation to improve. They refuse to make a move until circumstances are perfect. NEWS FLASH! Circumstances will rarely (if ever) be “perfect”. Consequently, nothing happens. And these folks remain stifled and stuck, unhappy and disappointed with no one to blame but themselves.
To have more great days, you must act. You must decide what you want and get busy making it happen. You must start. You must stop putting off moving on. The Roman thinker, writer, and philosopher Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) wrote, “While we are postponing, life speeds by.” What a sobering thought.
One of my favorite bumper stickers reads, “Warning: Dates on calendars are closer than they appear.” What have you been thinking about recently that a year from now you may wish you had started today? May 2018 is closer than it appears. Start today.
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