“Someday.”\u00a0 What a wishy-washy weasel-y, weak word.\u00a0\u00a0 Be wary of this word coming out of your own mouths or pens–because here’s what it really means:\u00a0 never.\u00a0 “Someday” is married to “I can’t.”\u00a0 They live unhappily ever after.<\/p>\n
Movement forward is a good thing, in my model of the world.\u00a0 What I sell is movement, and change.\u00a0 Belief change, behavioral change.\u00a0 Life change.\u00a0 Useful and desired and WONDERFUL change.\u00a0 “Someday” is a holding in place word, not a movement word.\u00a0 “Do it!”\u00a0 “Doing it!”\u00a0 \u00a0that’s movement.\u00a0 Someday\u2026I’ll \u00a0quit smoking.\u00a0 Someday\u2026I’ll get my body in shape.\u00a0 Someday\u2026blah blah blah.\u00a0 Someday never comes.<\/p>\n
I love my teachers.\u00a0 One in particular, Dr. Richard Bandler, the co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming\u2122.\u00a0 Yesterday was his birthday.\u00a0 He got literally hundreds of well wishes from fans and friends across the globe on his Facebook page.\u00a0 One girl wrote to him: \u00a0“I will take one of your trainings and meet you someday.”\u00a0 I’m sure he was underwhelmed by that.\u00a0 I would be.\u00a0 It means “never.”<\/p>\n
When I took Design Human Engineering\u2122 with Richard and his co-trainer, John LaValle, last year, here’s one of the ideas that got well installed:\u00a0 “Just f****** do it!!”\u00a0 It being movement towards a well formed outcome, a goal, what you want in life.\u00a0 I hear John’s voice in my ear often, propelling me forward.\u00a0 I’ll have to thank him again for that!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
My favorite songwriter, Smokey Robinson, said the same thing in a softer way in the lyrics of one of his best songs (More Love):\u00a0 “Let it be soon.\u00a0 Don’t hesitate.\u00a0 Make it now.\u00a0 Don’t wait\u2026”<\/p>\n
To me it’s so simple.\u00a0 If you want something (sufficiently), you do it.\u00a0 You make it happen.\u00a0 I don’t “do” someday.\u00a0 Why would anyone?\u00a0 Why not shift “someday” into “now?”<\/p>\n
Warm Regards,
\nConnie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Someday.”\u00a0 What a wishy-washy weasel-y, weak word.\u00a0\u00a0 Be wary of this word coming out of your own mouths or pens–because here’s what it really means:\u00a0 never.\u00a0 “Someday” is married to “I can’t.”\u00a0 They live unhappily ever after. Movement forward is a good thing, in my model of the world.\u00a0 What I sell is movement, and […] <\/p>\n