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.