Resolve

Here’s a reprint of something I wrote and included in my book in 2012. It’s worth thinking about today. Happy New Year!

We might need to have a difficult conversation.

I write a lot about motivation and productivity. I get a lot of questions about those subjects, so I keep thinking about them.

And I think there’s a hard realization some people need to face.

Maybe – deep down in your secret world – you just don’t want to do it.

Maybe you don’t want to spend more time with your family.

Maybe you don’t want to lose the weight or write the book or change the world.

Or change your world.

Oh, sure, maybe you like the idea of being it – whatever it is. It might be being happily married or being in shape or being a best-selling author.

But, dude, being and doing are two waaaaaaay different things.

Get out of denial. Admit it. Then work on that instead of pretending to go through the motions half-heartedly flailing at this other thing.

Maybe this other thing is too hard. Maybe this other thing is too much work or will take too much time. Maybe, today, you’re just not willing to really and truly make the effort.

And it’s not for me or anyone else to decide whether or not that’s okay.

But you need to admit it to yourself … so you can stop living the lie.

You’ll be happier, or you’ll know it’s time to make a change.

It’s kinda like the old saying:

When you’re torn between two things, flip a coin. You don’t flip it to see where it lands. You flip it because – while it’s still in the air – your heart will tell you which way you really want the coin to fall.

Got a quarter?

(If this totally doesn’t apply to you, awesome, but I bet – like me – somebody popped into your head. Should we do something about it? What do you think? I don’t know, either. I’m just asking.)