I once had a dog, a big, ½German Sheppard, ½ Lab, about a 100lb dog…who was friendly as can be. My mother would call him “regal” as he sat so tall in the sun, his auburn hair shining.
Well one day he somehow got out the back gate, and got lost down the street…in a nearby cul de sac….as we could hear him howling.
Pretty dog. Great dog…just not too smart.
We saved him, smiling all the way home as we carted him back on his leash.
How about your life? Do you ever feel you are in a paper bag trying to fight your way out? Or that you are just on the verge of greatness and lost just inches away from the finish line? Or that one of these days, real soon, just around the corner, you really (maybe tomorrow) are going to break on through to the other side, to the next level, to something spectacular?
Well, yesterday I was at a fairly famous franchise restaurant that serves all kinds of crab: King crab from the Antarctica, Queen crab (that was new to me), snow crab, crab cakes…and before I went into the restaurant, painted in huge letters on the side of the building it said: Free Crab Tomorrow!
Years ago I was in an Irish Pub not far from home that had a similar sign on the barroom wall: Free Beer Tomorrow!
Free fame tomorrow. Free greatness soon. Freedom when you retire. Financial success someday. Something spectacular in your life will happen down the road, before you know it, in a week or two, next year, when you hit 20, 30, 40, 50 or 60.
Free income made next week. Free success will be coming your way. You will be happy when you take that vacation, when all your stars are in alignment. Your personal success is coming someday on the somewhere island in the year of who knows when.
Today is the only real day. There are no tomorrows, or yesterdays, or “some days” or “maybe soons,” or if only I was a little taller, or a little smarter, or a little faster, or a little healthier, or able to take that chance on a great opportunity that is coming my way—one of these ol’ days.
Begin to do your bliss and passion this instant. Identify the greatness that can be started and put into motion right now—not this afternoon.
Not only intellectualize, categorize and identify your burning passion, or major definite purpose, your definiteness of purpose, your chief aim, your highest aspiration, your life’s goal or dream or expected anticipation…but really, actually, right now…feel it. Let it get into your extended emotions, so that energy and passion, momentum, modus operandi gets into your being, your soul, and propels you to greatness right now, where every fiber of our being is ignited, on fire, in process…right now you get to live in the moment, no matter what.
Be careful of the advice you take, for there are clichés and tidbits, platitudes and snippets that may give you a modicum of wisdom, but more of the “getting you lost in cull-de-sacs”…like: “Patience is a virtue.” “All things come to those who wait.” On and on, and so be careful of these paradoxes and contrary thinking and incomplete wisdoms.
If you ever need a kick in the butt, a reality check to motivate you to live today, drive by a cemetery; but this time look, really look and see the many headstones, the cold, grey ones with edged-in words. These people had their chance to live and are gone, not sort of gone, but long gone…no chance to live or do the great things that were burning in their hearts.
“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes.
You have a chance today to make a difference, to change the world, your world, to change the world of your children and grandchildren…today.
Don’t wait, not second. Do it now! Create a wake of bliss and energy that you will follow, you will bask in, you will use to take massive action, have massive fun and play your way to greatness.
For if you discover, hone and clarify what you really want, what you love to do…you will never work another day in your life.
Enjoy every minute of the five 1bs of King and Queen crab you are eating right now, not because it’s free, but because you have the money to buy it…because you are getting paid to add value and add benefit to your world, to a world that seems so often filled with mediocrity and slipshod efforts and mental limitations that fill the heads of people who don’t even know those limitations are in there…as they read the sign and hope: “Tomorrow is another day.”
Contrary to popular belief: “It is not.”