Do It Now!
One day a perceptive old man was unusually laughing away.
Someone
asked him, “What is it that amuses you so much?”
“Look!”
he said, “See that stone in the middle of the footpath there. I have already
seen six people stumble and fall over it.
Each
one got up, dusted off their clothes, stared intently at the stone, cursed it,
and then went their way.
Yet
none of them ever thought of removing it from there.”
There
is an old saying: “Tomorrow will be better if you do something about it today.”
It
is always the doers that move the world.
Ideas
are of little or no value until they are followed by action. There are only two
paths in front of the people.
Choose
to do something, or not to choose to do it.
It
is important to be a doer, after all.
For
the doer accomplishes tasks; learns to overcome obstacles; and thereby develops
a purpose for success.
Whenever
you feel tempted by your lower self to put off, to wait, or to delay, remember the
motto: “There’s no time like the present to do it.”
Take cue from what Benjamin Franklin once said,
“The world is not crying for men of talent, or larger brains. What the world needs and wants is doers. Men of action; men who do not wait for opportunity, but create their own opportunities right where they stand. It’s not the dreamers who move our civilization forward. It’s the doers. The do it nowers! If you can do it now, then just do it. Don’t you procrastinate, please. Procrastination is the thief of time!”
