All you have is today, what will you do with it? What words will you write? What words will you speak? What challenges will you face? What fears will you take on? What opportunities will you embrace? What past hindrance’s will you let go of? All you have is today, what will you do with it?
Author: John Allen
Stop comparing
Stop comparing. Stop comparing your life to the life of others. Stop comparing your success with the success of others. Stop comparing your opportunities, your looks, your talent, your gifts, your education, your likes on social media, etc. Stop comparing.
Pick yourself
Stop waiting to be pick, pick your dam self! Stop waiting for the ok, you have what it takes already! Stop waiting for the right time, because it never comes. Stop waiting for your situation to change because it never will! Stop desiring the good old days, because there gone and won’t be coming back! Stop waiting for others to change, because the change starts with you. Pick yourself and get moving.
Stop waiting for the right time because it never comes. Stop waiting for change Because it
The perfect time
When is the perfect time to write? When you feel like it? When the government agrees? When there’s money in the bank? Or maybe, It’s when you get that degree, your kids are grown and gone, or when COVID ends? No, your time is right now, right here, today. Show up, write, and ship. That’s the perfect time.
Use what you got
What’s stopping you from writing? What’s stopping you from putting pen to paper, pencil to post a note, crayon to cardboard? Laptop, smartphone, finger in the dirt? Start putting words together, anyway, anytime, anywhere. Use what you got.
Yeah right!
You are a fraud, a fake, a phony, how dare you show up with your creativity? How dare you write today or any day on your blog? How dare you try to ship work that matters? There’s no one listening to you! Stop this madness, conform, comply, hide! do what so many others do every day of their waking lives, follow the path of least resistance. Yeah right!
The world has changed
The world isn’t changing, it has already changed. People have changed, school has changed, work has changed, food has changed, transportation has changed, technology has changed. So how will you show up in this changed world?
It takes time
It takes time. It take time for some to get it, it takes time for some to see it, it takes time for some to grow into it, it takes time for some to live it, it takes time for some to like it, it takes time for some to love it, it takes time for some to learn it, it takes time for some to appreciate it, it takes time for some to hate it, it takes time for some to earn it. It takes time.
Size 10 shoe of public education
If public education was a shoe company their motto would be, “We sell size 10 shoes only!”
Do it right now
Do what you can with what you got. Use the tools given you right now at this moment. Don’t wait to get moving, right now is the time. Do it, make it, ship it.