TEMPVS FVGIT

Dearly beloved,

I am writing to you in the midst of my commotio cerebri aftermath, an incident in which I had to face a tremendous momentum shift, you all may laugh, I was undergoing what yet I tried to prevent everyone from having...and I am not going to lie, the foundation of my drive, my perseverance, my tenacity, the foundation of it all was shaken – and all of a sudden I reproached myself with what is written on old longcase clocks: tempus fugit!

How is time running out? Why am I on hold all of a sudden? Can there be a single incident to take it all away? Why can I preach and proclaim certain things, but have a hard time fulfilling them myself? There were unlimited, boundless questions bugging me for days that I even went through all of my older blogs in order to find answers. Time was running, tick, tock, my momentum has stopped, but the world kept spinning. Remember those time lapse infomercials I mentioned? The everyday rush did its duties, I saw the world passing by at supersonic speed, powerless, watching the world move with me standing still, watching the world move without me.

Sometimes we just feel like we cannot keep up; and sometimes a single incident can trigger us falling back in time, being powerless watching this world spinning and our lives being still. Time flees – et tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis. Then we think we are wasting our time, or wasted our time in the past, for it is said that "lost time is never found again." But I can calm you down. Time flees, but yet we made it to a point in which we think about it. I hereby want to quote the motivational speaker Mr. Earl Nightingale, who said: "Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." Does that not feel like a gigantic relief? It is not too late, even though we are on hold, we still have time to get back on track, to get back to where we were. Time flees, and it flees wether we do something or not, so despite a momentum shift, or incidents slowing us down, we all should have the heart to continue, to carry on, to do our deeds regardless of whatever is stepping in our way. Soon enough is well enough. And let’s put it this way: if a single incident all of a sudden shakes the foundation of your motivation, or your perseverance, the heart you have been carrying for a long time, does that not mean that you are moving on a high level, that you carried your motivational drive for a long time? Does this momentum shift not show you, how fast you are moving with and in this world?

This is something you can only see once you stop – and let it not only show you how fast this world is spinning, realize how fast you are moving yourself in order to keep up with this rushing world. If you keep up with this world for a long time and have one single incident throw you out of bounds all of a sudden, ain’t it merely an indicator that you got what it takes to keep up with this world? Are other people not thrown out of bounds as well? But they struggle getting back on track, because they do not realize their drive and their ability and heart to keep up with this world. So my fellow readers, let a sudden stop not discourage you, let it fuel you, fuel you to get back on track and keep driving on the fast lane of life. Tempus fugit? Tempus f*ckit!

Make a Difference

My dear readers,

now that you encourage your fellow friends it is time you take your own encouragement to the next level—start doing; and the perfect time for that is: today!

Army General George S. Patton once said, that "a good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." We all tend to postpone our deeds to future dates, tomorrows, days after tomorrows, et cetera. This somehow makes it easier for ourselves, because we can relocate responsibility from now to somewhen in the near or far future—at least we think it makes it easier on us. Why do we tend to do that? Because we are afraid of taking care of things now, so we declare it "deeds to be taken care of tomorrow." Why don’t we do things right away and knock them out already? Why do we not see that doing more today means doing less tomorrow?

We can overcome this by asking ourselves a simple question: will this make a difference? If you want to be more explicit, ask yourself: will this make the difference? This little question can and will make a difference. When you ask yourself, wether the things you’re about to do will make a difference or not you are more likely to getting them done, for you already consider doing something—so why not do it? Execute, do, and make a difference. You wonder why so many people live dull lives and are uncertain about what they really want in life? Because they want to do their things tomorrow, they don’t want to make a difference now. And these people will wake up someday and start wondering: why haven’t I done those things back then? Would that have made a difference? Why did I pile and stack up all those things and not knocking them off my list back then? A bit more here and there, how much greater could I have it now, wow. In order to save you from this experience I ask you to make a difference, to not postpone your deeds to later dates, to start doing things, and doing them now. If you get up and start DOING things right away, they will make a difference, and if you do so, you will not wake up in a couple of years with an infinite sequence of 'what-if-questions,' because you know one thing, you’ve been taken care of things, you’ve been doing all you could to make a difference—and you made a difference.

In addition to that you can make a difference for the benefit not only of yourself but also for a community. Let this discourse be a mere extension of the On being Heroic blog. The opportunity to make a difference, to make a change is in your grasp, don’t hesitate, make use of it.

APPENDIX: This is, however, of tremendous importance, if you have big decisions to make—regarding your career, friends, a person you love, apologies, and so on. This question will help you to 1. evaluate wether to do something or not, and 2. getting yourself into a position in which you can do something. And that will make a difference; and yet it will give you satisfaction and serenity, because you don’t wake up someday wondering, you took care of things and made a difference and no longer have to wake up in calamity one day. Do things now, build a reputation, because "you can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do," (Henry Ford) do things now, and...make a difference.