Motivation: Do It Now
posted on March 07 2008 by elCID
I leave you with one thought for the day: do it now, not later. General Patton said that a good plan today is better than a great one tomorrow. Artists, you know you tend to procrastinate a touch, so I leave you with a challenge: plan your day, plan your week, plan your month, stuff it as much as you can think you can do if you were a super hero, then go about doing that fast all day, every day, all month.
Make a checklist on a piece of paper, and put it on the wall. Check the list every day and see if you're on track. Then, when you get done with the month, see where you are.
Did you do more than you thought you could? Often you come up with solutions for things if you have a time-crunch. There is something about deadlines that make things happen.
I leave you with a quote, from Shakespeare:
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose the ventures before us.
- William Shakespeare, Julias Ceasar
