I was listening to Jack Canfield yesterday and someone ask him, “how do you start building confidence?” He said, “Just begin”. You don’t have to wait until something is perfect, or wait until it’s the right time or place. “Just begin”. Sometimes the first step is the hardest, but once you begin you’ll start building up a momentum.

Have you ever been invited somewhere, and you really didn’t want to go, but felt you had to? You came up with one excuse after another, on why not to go. Then you get there, and you have the best time of your life. You are just so glad that you went, and didn’t miss out.

That use to happen to me a lot. I would come up with all types of excuses. I don’t know why I did it. I just did it. Then I would get there, and have a really good time, so much sometimes that I wouldn’t want to leave. Well one day, as I was driving home I realized that I had this pattern. I didn’t see it before, until that night, because I heard myself saying, “I was glad I went because I would have missed seeing so and so, and would have missed this wonderful time”. Then it hit me! It didn’t matter why I did it, what really mattered was how I could change it.

On the drive home, I kept mulling over how I could change my behavior. When I got home, I put on the TV and a commercial came on for Nike. I wasn’t paying all that much attention to it, until I saw the slogan “Just Do It”. The slogan resonated throughout my body. “Just Do It” 3 simple words. I decided then and there to say to myself “Just Do It” when I started making up excuses. I had ‘just begun” a new way to change my old pattern.

That was 2 years ago. Now, only on rare occasions, my old habit will come back. I’ll hear myself start making excuses. When I do, I stop and say; “Just Do It” and I instantly let it go. I’ve applied that saying to quite a few things in my life.

Where do you begin? Just begin by changing your choice. If you always do something the same way, and are not getting the results you want, then make a different choice. Hey, what’s the worse that can happen? You get the same results? If that happens, make a different choice until you get the results you want.

Do you know the saying, “what is insanity”? Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting to get different results. Well, stop the insanity in your life by making a different choice.

Just Do It
Diane

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