Do It Now
Several years ago I had a client who told me she and her adult daughter go on a trip together every year. It sounded like a fun idea to get away and spend some quality time with my daughter too.
She was 8 at the time, and I told her that when she became an adult we would go on mother-daughter trips together. She was excited at the idea, but then she paused and asked, “why do we have to wait until I’m an adult?”
I thought about it for about half a second before I realized, we don’t need to wait. We can do it now!
I’m so glad she had the thought of not waiting, that she spoke her thought, and that I changed my mind about how this would work for us.
Because, we just got back from our 5th annual mother-daughter trip and the memories we’ve made over the years are absolutely priceless. Getting away from school, homework, extra-curricular activities, work, and day-to-day responsibilities gives us time to really focus on our relationship.
Taking on the huge job of writing my book, due to be published in 2023, was so scary! Did you know I am not a writer?! But, the message is important and I hope it will help so many lives. So, I’m doing it.
Honestly, simply making the decision to write it and beginning the process has really forced me to embrace the saying, “done is better than perfect.” Because I know it won’t be perfect! And that has led me to do even more things that I would have waited and waited to do.
For example, I just published a 2023 yearly planner focused on mindset. It was so much work and it was so hard for me! I’m not the most tech savvy person so formatting and designing it was difficult for me. But, I knew what I wanted it to look like and I figured it out and got it done. I’m thrilled at how it turned out and will be making one every year along with other things to help develop mindset, like journals.
Can you relate? Is there something in your life that you’ve been planning to do later that you can actually do now?
Are there things that you want to do but you’re waiting:
for the right time
to feel prepared
until you know more
until next year
any other excuse or reason
Stop and think, can you do it now?
It might be scary. You might makes mistakes. You might fail.
Do it anyway. Do it now.
I know you can!
*photo from our latest mother-daughter trip; the Muir Woods in California.