If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say, “I would like to [fill in the blank], but I [make up excuse], I’d be a rich person. It seems no matter what we want to do, we can find reasons why we can’t accomplish it.
Reading each month’s Writer’s Digest, I find the same theme repeated over and over by the accomplished authors. The answer is simple – put your butt in your chair and write, tie yourself to a chair and write, make an appointment with yourself and write!
This made me think, how many of us go through life without showing up for it? You know, the list of things that have to be done vs. the list of things that we want to do. What if some of the have to items were missed and replaced with the want to items? Think about that New Year’s Resolution list. At the end of the year, do you check off items or feel like you’ve wasted another year?
Let’s resolve today to put our butts in our chairs and accomplish the things that we want to do. Our success is only an appointment with ourselves away.