{"id":8030,"date":"2017-05-03T00:07:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T06:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2017-05-03T00:08:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T06:08:19","slug":"stop-waiting-for-someday-just-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/stop-waiting-for-someday-just-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop waiting for Someday – Just Do It!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cConditions are never perfect. \u2018Someday\u2019 is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. If it\u2019s important to you and you want to do it \u2018eventually\u2019, just do it and correct the course along the way.\u201d<\/span> \u2013Tim Ferris<\/p>\n

Everyone has dreams for their future \u2013 the wishes they want to make come true. Yet very few people actually stop talking about it, stop planning it, stop analyzing everything around it, and JUST DO IT!<\/p>\n

Perhaps very few people do it because in their mind you haven\u2019t really put yourself on the line for it if you haven\u2019t started doing it yet so there is less risk of being seen as a failure. Or perhaps it\u2019s because it is easier to just talk about it and to just sit and imagine it than it is to actually go out and DO IT.<\/p>\n

As a child I loved the poetry of Shel Silverstein because he taught important lessons in these simple, yet fun, poems he wrote. One of my favorites is a poem that illustrates the way we tend to overanalyze and look for excuses and roadblocks\u2026the way we do everything except JUST DO IT!<\/p>\n

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Diving Board\u00a0 <\/u>(by Shel Silverstein)<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been up on that diving board<\/span>
\n Making sure that it\u2019s nice and straight.<\/span>
\n You\u2019ve made sure that it\u2019s not too slick.<\/span>
\n You\u2019ve made sure it can stand the weight.<\/span>
\n You\u2019ve made sure that the spring is tight.<\/span>
\n You\u2019ve made sure that the cloth won\u2019t slip.<\/span>
\n You\u2019ve made sure that it bounces right,<\/span>
\n And that your toes can get a grip\u2013 \u2013<\/span>
\n And you\u2019ve been up there since half past five<\/span>
\n Doin\u2019 everything \u2026 but DIVE.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to accomplish your dreams then get started on it. Don\u2019t wait to figure every little detail out before you begin. Have a vision of the end game you hope to ultimately accomplish and start moving toward it right this second\u2026don\u2019t wait\u2026JUST DO IT!<\/p>\n

DIVE!<\/p>\n

Have a great one!<\/p>\n

~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cConditions are never perfect. \u2018Someday\u2019 is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. If it\u2019s important to you and you want to do it \u2018eventually\u2019, just do it and correct the course along the way.\u201d \u2013Tim Ferris Everyone has dreams for their future \u2013 the wishes they want to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1002,632,367,131,395,46,96,13391,5289,12331,547,13392,13396,13403,41,67,13401,10917,2920,3617,13398,7966,836,545,706,13405,13400,13397,1761,1385,13404,13399,13395,13394,13393,13402,250],"class_list":["post-8030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-accomplish","tag-accomplishment","tag-achieve","tag-achievement","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-attitude","tag-culture","tag-diving-board","tag-do-anything","tag-do-it-now","tag-do-something","tag-dreams-for-the-future","tag-easier-to-talk-about-it-than-do-it","tag-end-game","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-figure-out-every-detail","tag-get-to-work","tag-get-up","tag-just-do-it","tag-just-get-going","tag-just-make-a-start","tag-make-it-happen","tag-move-forward","tag-moving-forward","tag-one-foot-in-front-of-the-other","tag-overcome-challenges","tag-risk-of-failure","tag-roadblocks","tag-shel-silverstein","tag-start-moving","tag-start-moving-ahead","tag-stop-overanalyzing-everything","tag-stop-planning-it","tag-stop-talking-about-it","tag-vision-of-the-end-game","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8035,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions\/8035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}