You know what to do

# Chapter 114

I think most of us know what we need/should/ought to be doing. And here is the gap, we still don’t do it. We have lots of reasons and excuses and constraints, but in the end those won’t matter, you and I will lose if we don’t do what we know we need to be doing, should be doing, ought to be doing.

Back several lifetimes ago, when I was studying to be a pastor, the preaching teacher said we must take out of our sermons the words must, ought, should, because people can’t hear it and it makes them feel external pressure to do something. And he probably gave a lot of other reasons why public speakers should not use those words. But I am not public speaking and I for sure am no longer a preacher, and so I am using these words liberally because no one is saying them to you. You know what you should be doing, what you ought to be doing. Now do it. Be a winner. Be successful! Be accomplished. Complete your dreams, and live out your plans and finish what you started when you were first inspired.

Do it with a singular focus, unwavering and unshaken, regardless of what other people may think or what they may be encouraging you to do - like watch a YouTube video, go to the bar after work, watch TV, listen to this song and that podcast, and generally waste all your time with nothing-producing actions. You know what to do.

/I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does." ~ Florence Griffith Joyner/