You have to DO something to SUCCEED

Some days you wake up an you know you have something that you have to do. I woke up this morning and had to write this post.

So many time it’s easy for us to sit back and make excuses. What we don’t think about though is that all the excuses we make lead us nowhere.

How many times have you said I really need to do something, but I’ll just do this first. Odds are the thing you know that you really need to do doesn’t get done.

Many of you know that I have started selling Avon, and that since May of last year I have essentially been unemployed. At first I had no real worries. I had been unemployed before and had always found a job. After about 8 months of knowing I had always found a job, I realized that I also had never been unemployed this long before. It was time to take a different course of action, so in addition to sending literally thousands of resumes, I am now selling Avon.

The reason I bring this up is that in order to make Avon work I have to take action. It is one of the reasons that I am writing this post. There have been many days I have thought maybe I should wait until…. I get my name tag, I will look more professional. Maybe I should wait until after I order this week, after all there are only a few days left to gather orders so it’s better that I wait so people will have longer to look at the books… Maybe I should wait it might rain today…Maybe I should wait, my blisters still haven’t healed from last time. You know what I don’t ever find myself saying maybe if I don’t pay my bills this month my creditors will let me slide. It’s pretty much a given that if I don’t pay they will cut me off, the bank will foreclose on my home, and I will be left with nothing. When you have something you want to accomplish, you can't just sit an wait for it to happen.

IN ORDER TO SUCCEED YOU MUST START BY DOING!

I have new customers each and every campaign, why? Not because I said maybe tomorrow, but because I said yes, today! Granted it’s easier to sit home and say maybe, but easy doesn’t help anything.

In August of 2007, I had just been dumped... yes again. I needed to have surgery on my foot, and in the same mall that they foot doctor was in there was a restaurant that did karaoke. I had not sung in years, but I wanted to go. I had foot surgery scheduled on Friday afternoon and karaoke was Friday night. I could have said "Maybe I will wait until next week" "Maybe I should practice at home first" Maybe..... I didn't say maybe. I went, and because I ignored the maybes, got invited to sing at a private club the next week, and because I went the next week, I got more confident and with in a couple months was contacted by a producer who was interested in doing a CD with me. Within 7 months I had my first CD done and it was on the market! now less than 3 years later I am looking at doing my 4th CD. I have been in the top 10 Jazz Artists in South Florida since June 2009 and this week I hit #1 and rank 1,016 in the world! (When you consider how many people there are in the world this is an AWESOME place to be)

Yet I could have listened to the maybes. I can not tell you how glad I am that I didn't. I could still be sitting on the couch saying "Maybe I could go next week". Do yourself a favor: don't wait!

Learning not to give in to the “maybes” is hard. It causes you to take action. Scary thought that you actually have the power to take control of your life. I say be BRAVE and rip out the page in your dictionary that contains the word “maybe” or “try” or the phrase ”I could if” JUST DO and you will succeed!. One of my favorite quotes is “Do or Do Not, there is no try” – Yoda

Why not make today the stat of your Doing? You'll be amazed at the results