It's Thursday night and, according to my calendar, I am supposed cut the grass when I get home from work. In my mind, I'm thinking of all the reasons why I don't have to cut it today. "It's not long enough," "I just cut it a few days ago," and "I have better things to do with my time." While each of these statements are true, it wasn't convincing enough to stop me from pulling out the lawnmower and getting it done.
As I walked back and forth across my lawn, the blades on the mower easily slice through the grass like a hot knife on butter. With each row that I complete, I turn around and examine my handiwork. There is a sense of accomplishment and pride that washes over me as I compare the beautiful freshly cut row contrasted against the 4 day old growth. The difference is clear.
It is in that moment that I feel good about pushing through my initial hesitation and cutting the grass anyway. Yes, I could have allowed the grass to grow a few more days, but then it would have been more challenging and it would have required a second pass. All of which would have taken an hour to complete against a shorter 30 minute touch-up.
In life, I find that my natural tendency to procrastinate and push things back until the last possible minute bleeds into many different areas. I could easily go weeks without cutting my hair, cleaning my room, washing my car, organizing the growing pile of mail on my kitchen counter, deleting old emails, and calling good friends or family. In my mind, I tell myself that it's good enough for now or that it can wait a few more days, but if I'm following my plan, it can't wait.
Addressing the issue while it's still nice and controllable is better than waiting until it's overrun and an eyesore.
While the difference between cutting the grass today and cutting the grass a few days from now can seem like a trivial thing, let me assure you that it's not. Cutting it today means a relatively easy stroll over a still well maintained carpet of lush green grass, but in a few days it no longer looks groomed and it's on the border of screaming for attention. While a slight exaggeration, understand the point. Addressing the issue while it's still nice and controllable is better than waiting until it's overrun and an eyesore. The difference between the two is but a few days.
Think about your life and all of the things you're managing right now. Are you addressing it often and with little effort or are you waiting too long and now required to spend countless hours just to catch up? Regardless of how you answer, let me ask you this question, "How does it feel?"
If you said that you address it often and with little effort, I would imagine that you feel good, accomplished, and ordered. However, if you said that you're waiting too long and required to spend countless hours just to catch up, I would imagine that you feel exhausted, stressed, and disappointed.
You can choose to live an ordered life or a life filled with stress, anxiety, and confusion.
Right now, you get to decide how you want to live your life. You can choose to live an ordered life or a life filled with stress, anxiety, and confusion. You can choose to create a buffer between you and pure catastrophe or you can live life on the edge with inches between you and homelessness. You can be well put together or you can be a total mess. It's up to you how you choose to live your life, but it all starts with a decision to live a life of excellence. That is, if you choose to.
No matter where you are right now, life can be different based on the decisions that you make. It can be a good decision or a bad decision, but a decision nonetheless. You can be riding high with all things going as planned, but allow yourself to make a series of bad decisions and that life could change for the worse. The opposite is true as well. You can be in the worst place of your life, but with a series of good decisions, things begin to turn around for you.
Nothing is promised and everything can change in an instant.
Nothing is promised and everything can change in an instant. That is true regardless of who you are and what you have or haven't done. However, even in those moments beyond our control, we get to decide how we will see the event and what action we decide to take next. That decision rests with us.
So, what will you do today? What decisions will you make? Will you decide to build on your successful momentum or throw cold water on your raging fire? Will you trust that today will be better than yesterday or will you believe that it will be more of the same?
Remember this, you are more powerful than you know and blessed beyond your wildest dreams. So, let's choose today to live a life of excellence with overflowing abundance.
Until next time...
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