Follow Your Bliss Friday: ONCE MORE, WITH GUSTO

by Chris Maddera on August 20, 2010

I don’t care what it is you want to be, or do, or have, but whatever it is, do something toward achieving it before the day is over. Don’t talk yourself out of it. Don’t overthink it. It doesn’t have to be anything big. It just has to be something.

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ONCE MORE, WITH GUSTO – (That’s what she said.) Okay, this weekend, I’m setting aside an hour or two for some quite contemplation about some of the things I want to do, places I want to visit, etc., and then, I’m going to write down my excuses for not doing 5 of them. All reasonable excuses, I assure you. I know they’ll be reasonable because I’ve used them many times. They’ll be old favorites, right?

Then I need to do at least one of these things I’ve been putting off, and I won’t be allowed to use any of the usual excuses. Either I’m going to wind up doing something I’ve had on the back-burner for awhile, or I’m going to have to come up with some new ingenious excuses, or I’m just going to have to accept that I will probably never get around to it.

For inspiration, I’ve started re-reading The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.