Rather personal topic huh?
2009 was actually a good year for me in terms of learning more about myself. It was the year I realized that I was being my own worst enemy. It sounds so weird to say, but I realized that I was directly sabotaging myself, in life. How was I doing this, one of the avenues I choose was.........Procrastination
According to Wikipedia procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions or tasks with low-priority actions, and thus putting off important tasks to a later time.
I now realized that I have used Procrastination, to poison several ventures of my life. My procrastination has allowed me to repeatably put things off and then make excuses for it.
Now I am determined to beat this evil trait. I don't plan for it to be easy. As I have allowed this poison to become cemented over the years with excuses, laziness and personal sabotaging, even in getting the simplest things done. I would see others sailing on in their lives, and I would procrastinate and blame "he, she and the Old lady" for me not sailing on as well. It even got so bad that I made myself feel comfortable with where I am.
I hate to dwell on the past, or have regrets.....so I would like to change the topic from Something I hate about myself...to.....Something I hated about myself.
I decided not to make any resolutions this year, that has never really worked with me......(I often make a list of resolutions, forget them and where I placed the book I wrote them in, and this usually happens around February or so * smile ) Therefore I have decided to "Just do it".
Nike - Just Do it
I imagine when they came up with this slogan, it was late one night and everybody wanted to go home - tired, frustrated, brain totally fried with the dead line within hours. Then someone said the magic words - "Just do it" already. Light bulbs on! Thats it - "Just Do It". Those are my thoughts anyway.......
This slogan is perfect, and I am using it to launch my own sail boat. Instead of thinking of it, putting it off, making excuses, complaining, then thinking of the way I can't do it......
I simply "Just do it" , Just do it
Just exercise
Just apply for school
Just keep at this blog everyday for 30 days
Just launch that boat
"JUST DO IT"
I did a bit of research on the slogan actually. I read that in the 1970s Nike was swamped by Reebok. Then they launched the "Just Do it " campaign. They targeted every person, regardless of age, gender or physical level, and that allowed them to take the market over. Nike was able to increase its share of the domestic sport -shoe market from 18% to 43% in just 10 years.
Nike didn't make excuses, they didn't complain, they just got in there and did it.
Like Nike I wanna see my challenges, as something that just has to get done.
Continue to enjoy the Metamorphosis.
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