The hardest part of almost any task or challenge we face is getting started. I am an expert at sitting on my rear while I analyze how difficult a task is going to be, agonize over how long it will take mull over whether I will be able to do it to perfection. A friend of ours, who happens to run one of the most successful fortune five hundred companies in the world, put it well. “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly the first time.”
JUST DO IT. You can always improve on it once you have started.
My friend, Eric Alexander, helped guide the first blind man to the peak of Mount Everest. He had to do more than just dream about reaching the summit. He didn’t sit around worrying because a blind man had never been on the summit before. They made it! But it would have never happened if he had hadn’t taken that first step, crossed that first stream, established that first base camp.
What have you got to do today?
What have you got to do?
Apologize?
Exercise?
Run or just have fun?
Read?
Ride?
Forgive and let live?
Admit?
Commit?
Study and learn?
What have you got to do today?
What have you got to do?
JUST DO IT!
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Got up out of my chair and went outside and did the rose bush pruning which I had been contemplating for 2 weeks.
Thanks.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’ve printed it and posted it on my refrigerator and my bathroom mirror. I’m getting out of the chair!
YESSS! Just do it!!!!!!!!
WELL SAID. AMEN
Great advice! Needed to “hear” that “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly the first time.” Am a horrible procrastinator for fear of doing it wrong or it taking too long or I “analyze how difficult a task is going to be”, blah, blah, blah. Like Joni I (we)need to pray “Lord, Show Me Where to Start”
Yes! I need to just do this. Been contemplating the first step for too long. Maybe it’s because I’m not sure of the second step, but maybe I can’t see it because I have to get past the first one. Thanks for the push. Here goes…
enjoyed reading about just do it, I’m that type of women but I’m married to one that sound like the beginning thinking and sitting and doing nothing. I’ve left this in the Lord hands because I can’t change him only God can. We have been married 42 years and I believe its only because we are both christians and work on it daily.
Thanks. I have been putting off exercising this morning, and now I have no more excuses.
I enjoyed the evening of my birthday, Nov. 10, 2011. Thanks for all the laughs.
Great advice for a Monday morning!
Thank you for this bit of inspiration to go forth and “Just Do It”. I completed my BA in liberal studies when my daughter reached 6th grade; however, I have yet to complete my teaching credential. I suppose my procrastination is due to a fear of the unknown, fear of what modern public schools teach today, fear of being too old (at 50) to begin a new career, fear of not doing a perfect job…just fear itself! If you read this comment, please pray that I will “Just Do It!” Please pray that I will fullfill the purpose for which God designed me. Thank you J