Do Better – Thinking Aloud
October 7th, 2011Stop lamenting all the ways you suck. Stop wishing you were productive. Stop wanting things you don’t need. Stop doing things that don’t matter. Stop putting things off until you “have more time.” You waste plenty of time already.
Don’t take it personally, don’t get depressed. Just do better.
The more you sit around and lament whatever wishing and dreaming of a better world (better you, better circumstances, better anything), you could be doing it. You do it by doing better. Contemplation is great if you’re going forward, but thinking about the past is only backward motion. You can’t change anything there. You are powerless in the past, but you are Superman now and in the future. There are so many things you can change right now that make all of the things you can’t change look meaningless. Learn from your mistakes and do better. Don’t plan, don’t schedule, don’t make a mental note or procrastinate on it. You will lose it if you don’t start now. Just do better. Tattoo that thought on your mind and don’t forget. Do it now.
Do better.
