Just Do It

“Seize the Moment” “Get it Done” “Just do it!” These are comments that I sometimes resort to just to keep myself motivated. Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed with the inertia of procrastination? Yesterday I chatted with someone who has been in the middle of a project for over a month. She got stalled and just couldn’t get started again. I told her that I keep a slogan on my bulletin board above my desk. It says, “If you don’t do it today – you won’t do it tomorrow!” Sometimes I need to remind myself to, as Nike puts it, “just do it”.

One of my favourite verses in scripture is found in Deuteronomy “You have circled this mountain long enough. Turn north.” Moses had led the people out of Egypt and they were bound for the Promised Land but they got stalled, stuck, locked into a pattern. The story says they went round and round until God said, “Enough!Do something different – head north”. Life can sometimes catch us into patterns that can be paralyzing and we need to get that word that tells us to move on. It can be as simple as getting stalled in a project or a deep as living with feelings of self-pity or negativity.

So my suggestion for you, dear reader, is take at look at your life – where do you need to do a reassessment, take a new direction, try an new method? And while you look at your life, I will look at mine. Uh-oh I’m getting out the map – seems I have to head north!