Time is Not Your Friend

Time is always working against you. It will seem that you have all the time in the world, especially when you’re young. But time doesn’t sit still. It doesn’t grow. It is always moving in one direction, forward. Etching away at you and the things around you. Smoothing and dulling as it flows.

Does this mean you need to rush and hurry?

Not in the least. However, you do need to start.
You have to move and not sit in place thinking you have tomorrow to get on with things. All the excuses have to be set aside. How may times have you told yourself, I’ll get to it once I get things sorted. Or when everything is in place I’ll start.
Time will just flow on, leaving you in place, slowly wearing on you until there is nothing left but the faint outline of the person you had been and could have been. This kind of thinking gets you nowhere except older and deader.

Starting is a whole lot simpler than you think.

Really, starting means moving with the flow of time, working towards something as opposed to doing nothing. People get caught up in wanting everything to be perfect and settled before starting. Just getting moving will go a long way towards helping to put together the other pieces you need to be successful.

A simple example.

Let’s say you want to get in shape. You could spend a whole lot of time reading up, watching videos, finding the right equipment, shoes, watch, headphones, but never really getting on with the goal. You did a lot of busy work, used up a lot of time, but in reality you never started. You’re still out of shape and no closer to being better. A bit poorer in money and time, but that’s about it.

If instead you just got up and walked for at least 5 minutes each day, you would suddenly find yourself doing something. The more you repeat this exercise the easier it will get and it won’t be long before you’re expanding on that start, improving, doing just a little more.

Now, you can go ahead and do all those other things, read up, watch videos, buy gear, fret about what is the best method, think about how to get better, but you will have begun to do the most important part, starting.

You are no longer waiting for something to happen, but actually making that something happen.

Rinse and repeat.

Next is to keep going. Repeat over and over, until it has become something you can’t see yourself not doing. Along the way you will likely find yourself pushing farther, doing more, experimenting and improving. Working towards whatever it is that you set for yourself to do.

The best part of this is you are not letting time work against you. You are actually doing. Which is probably more than you’ve done in most other things in your life.

Time won't matter if you start.

Don’t think you have all the time in the world, or that time doesn’t make any difference. Time is constant. Time will win in the end. There is only one way for you to react to this fact and that is:

To start.

To do.

To be more the you were today.

One step after another.

A little at a time.