I'm Working On It...

Hi All-

I read this great article from my friend Wesley Goo and wanted to share it with all of you. It's titled "I'm Working On It". I want you all to jot down how many times you say to someone or yourself "i'm working on it" in your day-to-day life...

"I'm Working On It"

I'm in a profession that involves me asking people why they haven't accomplished the things they've wanted in both their personal and professional lives. If you think about your own life, aren't you also confronted by a list of things you want to do or be and the cold, hard fact that - no matter what the reason - you're not that person yet nor do you have "those things?"

When I ask a group of people why they don't have those things, they usually give me a list of reasons: Not enough money, no time, too busy, feeling lazy, procrastinate, lack of knowledge, fear, etc. All of those things are what people believe about why they've not yet been able to accomplish what they want. It's a belief. But then again, what is "no money?" How much time is enough time? If I gave you $5 million dollars to work out everyday for three weeks straight, would you still feel lazy? Or would you push through whatever tiredness you feel to do it? Of course, the most dangerous one appears to be procrastination. For, with that, we deceive ourselves. We'll get to it tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. And more often than not, tomorrow never comes.

But actually, there is one excuse that, in my opinion, is worst of all. It's when we say "I'm working on it." But why that? "If I'm working on it, isn't that a good thing?" Of course! But for 99f people, "I'm working on it" is really procrastination in sheep's clothing.

It looks like this:

I don't like my financial situation and money is scarce ... but I'm working on it.
I don't like my physical body ... and eating right and working out is tough ... I'm working on it.

It's a drug, we drug ourselves with to quench the pain of facing the fact that we're NOT working on it.

How many times have we said "I'm working on it" only to buy ourselves another few moments, a few days, weeks, months and sometimes years of NOT doing it?

It's like an emotional credit card. We "swipe" it to buy ourselves more time to feel better about where we're at. The problem is, we'll have to pay that bill later. How do we pay, you may ask? With months and years NOT accomplishing what we want; not living the life of our dreams. We talk, talk, talk, talk ... and we never do. And if we "do," it's so miniscule that - at that rate - we'll still be working on it 50 years from now.

I don't know about you but I'm sick of buying myself more time that I don't have. If we don't do it now, when will we do it?

You know when most people go for marriage counseling? When it's too late. You've heard of the person that goes to the doctor and the doctor says, "Look, unless you lose weight, get in shape, stop smoking, drinking, partying ... you're going to die." What normally has to happen before that person makes the change??? They get sick or have a heart attack.

My question for you ... for me ... is how sick do you need to get before you do something?

Do you want more years to go by with no money?
Higher debt?
A few pounds heavier?
More wrinkles?
Suffering relationships?
Spiritually empty?

When will you reach the point when you say "enough is enough" and DECIDE to do something about it?

When would NOW be a good time?