If Not Now, When?
Neil McKee
Neuro Change Mentor and advocate for Mental Wellbeing. TRANSFORMATIONAL trainer in Motivational Mapping, Mind Mapping, & TetraMapping - so you can master motivation, EQ, & influence. Author: The Accelerated Trainer ??
My calendar is my commitment keeper. I speak personally, of course, but also as one who has wrestled with keeping promises and honouring intentions over the decades. I do want to be a better man!
My most powerful question for 2021 is, “If not now, when?”
When I can answer that, it can go in my Promise Keeper – my Commitment Keeper – my Calendar. Once it is committed to the timeline (i.e. my diary) the chances of it being done are multiplied one hundredfold! As Pharaoh says in ‘The Ten Commandments’ - “So let it be written; so let it be done.”
This means that my diary may well be my best friend in 2021… and the best friend to my clients… and thus the best friend to my cash flow.
Commitment is powerful… Commitment in concrete in the calendar is super powerful!
If not now, when?
I asked myself, and then
Stepped out into the night
To exercise both mind and body
In the pure moonlight.
I need to lose some weight, you see
If I’m to thrive and healthy be…
5000 steps a day and then
I may be sprightly once again.
I walked cautiously the frozen paths
Upon a million frozen stars
Lit by the 13th Moon so bright
God’s finest work to rule the night
I wondered why people
Needed a reason
To celebrate the season
Why they had to wait, to decorate
Their homes and gardens decked with light
When such an uplifting, heart-warming sight.
And why must we wait until the turn
As one year ends and another’s begun
To commit to change that will clearly bless?
I find it confusing, I must confess!
Let us light our gardens when we desire
Light the candles, stoke the fire
Choose to change when so inspired
Press on into something bigger, higher
Returning back, I take a pen
And write, “2020,” on sheets of toilet roll…then
Whilst those sheets are before me now.
They will soon be behind somehow.
Magic happens when we rest a spell
And 2020 can go to…
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4 年"When commitments become concrete in the calendar, stuff happens." Couldn't agree more.
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4 年Lex, wise words as always sir.
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4 年Lex McKee The Cheerful Leader love the notion of ‘if not now, when?’ “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation. there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. a whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now!” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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4 年A good lesson lovely! Happy new year! Monday at 10? X