If you’re thinking about doing something…stop thinking, go do it!
I have years of regret from sitting on the sidelines.
Get in the game.
And if you feel you aren’t able to, start your own.
Excuses ruin more dreams than failed attempts ever could.
The action of starting ends up being a lot easier when we’ve already started in our minds.
The action is connected to the need to change.
Ideas are everywhere. They’re in our head, a notebook, a spark of inspiration from an observation.
Think of an idea as a seed on the ground.
There are thousands of those scattered around. We walk over them as quickly as they appear in front of us and they disappear in a flash behind us.
Often times it’s not a big change that has to be made.
It’s a tweak.
A slight pivot.
A minor movement forward.
One more turn of the wrench.
It’s only about doing.
Thinking is important.
Planning has relevance.
Ideation is helpful.
The “doing” becomes what matters the most.
Without the doing, nothing else matters.
Just start and keep iterating as you go.
Take a seed out of any food we are eating and place it on the table.
Don’t do anything to it and let it sit there for a few weeks.
Do you know what happens?
Almost nothing.
Consistency is the worst kept secret of accomplishing anything important to us.
We must start. Not once but each and every day.
More than motivation it’s an action.
I enjoyed writing for many years and would normally write in journals or random blog articles from time to time. The content structure and topics changed over time but similar messaging was at its core.
Positive Mindset. Consistency. Action. Progress.
Why does a Monarch butterfly do the things it does?
Here is a caterpillar, crawling around the earth and living just fine. Then, for reasons we can’t possibly fully know, it decides to create a cocoon and after a short isolation period, boom, it now has wings.
Progress happens over time and is rarely seen in a moment or even a series of days. It’s a continual flow of work that creates the life that we want.
Sure, an intense workout or an unbelievable date, or an incredibly productive day is needed from time to time. Those have to be a part of the equation.
Regret might be one of the least desirable emotions to have because when it surfaces we have almost no answer to it.
It’s in the past. It’s over.
We can’t fix it or go back and that’s why it hurts so much