"What great accomplishments we would have in the world if everyone would do what they intended to do... The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it."
-Frank Clark
We are a world of procrastinators. This is not intended to insult, I am one of these people. I cannot tell you how many times I have said the words "I will do it tomorrow." But the longer that we wait, the less of a chance we will actually do what we intend to do. It is a really dangerous game we are playing when we set aside a task that needs to be done now.
A friend of mine told me that God has our life planned out already, that all we have to do is just live it. When I heard that it took all the pressure off of doing anything at all. Now all you go-getters out there might have the opposite response and consider living an easy task with this mentality. But for me, it took away my drive to meet people or to pursue this elusive greatness. What is the point if our destiny turns out the same anyway? I know, once again, this is a terrible mentality, but that is what I thought, none-the-less.
I have shed this mentality since then. Not because I think (or don't think) that this is a false mentality, but because it was harmful in my productivity. I have a responsibility to produce greatness in my life. God has a plan for us, yes, but it is our responsibility to stay on it.
It is like Eleanor Roosevelt said, "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves." So if we want to spend each day discovering who we are, we need to pay careful attention to the duties we discard, because it may be in those consistent duties that we embrace God's plan.
"Do not say to your neighbor, Go, and come again; and tomorrow I will give it—when you have it with you." -Proverbs 3:28
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