Sunday Story…Now

You can wait until the kids get older, your work settles down (or ramps up), the weather warms up or cools down, you lose those few pounds, or the stars align and the cows come home. There will always be something. Some obstacle, some resistance to whatever change you are thinking of making.

My favorite is “I need to get in shape before I start coming to your gym or martial arts class.” No you don’t. You need to come to class because you need to get in shape. Stop resisting and start working.

The only thing standing between you and the change you want to see is a gossamer curtain of excuses. Just like the curtain that the Wizard of Oz stood behind…it really only serves to fool you and allow you to not to the work you already know you must do.

This is true in whatever endeavor you are looking at…new career, new body, new anything. Whenever you are going to shift and transform your life there will be resistance and excuses. The bigger the shift, the bigger the resistance and the better the excuses will appear. After all, wasn’t Oz the all powerful? And in the end he was a small weak excuse of a wizard. All of your excuses, even the best ones, are no good once you finish your work.

It is time to pull back the curtain of resistance and expose it for what it truly is…a no account version of an excuse.

Get started. Now. Today. Right this very minute. There is no time like the present. Besides the sooner you start the sooner you will finish!

Namaste

John Mariotti

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