Just Do It!

Sometimes you begin something of so much importance that you think about it to the point where it never even transpires.  You ponder the difficulty of it, you create solutions to potential roadblocks, and you second guess yourself because the toll it takes on your mind is so great that you feel your head exploding with doubts and worry.  Then there are times when you kinda fall into something, go with the flow and find yourself in the middle of something amazing that you hadn't even planned on.  Something that you weren't even too excited about is now one of the biggest parts of your life and motivates you to move in the morning.

People always talk about being prepared and planning...about making goals and subgoals.  Why is it then that the best-laid plans are often trumped by life's surprises, and even challenges?  Why do some of your greatest achievements happen upon you when you were trying so hard to achieve something else?

On days when things are clipping along, I stop and wonder how it all gets done.  The answer...it doesn't, I'm just too busy to notice what minute things fell through the cracks.  When I choose to focus on what matters, (to me) I find that the little things that can almost literally implode my mind have meager value in the big picture.  Friends who know me are well-aware of my "tunnel-vision" when working on something.  For some purposes, this trait is brilliantly useful...for other situations it is exclusive of all else and incredibly annoying. (just ask my friends ;)  Focusing on the positive part, it really does allow you to laser-beam your energies into a project...truly pouring your heart and soul into a real purpose and letting the smaller, less life-changing details affect you.

Nike's well-known slogan, "Just Do It!" is such a wise phrase.  It implores action instead of planning.  I am not condoning mindless activity, but instead, ridding your mind of the noise that is procrastination.  "Just do it"...just start something as you're thinking of it and the inertia will grow, the inspiration will come and soon enough your thoughts and ideas are manifesting into tangible creations.  When we wait and do not trust the process, sometimes we never leave the launch pad.

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone” 
― Pablo Picasso

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” 
― Karen Lamb