Keeping Out of Never, Never Land
"Do it now! Sometimes, later becomes never."
- Zig Ziglar
(1926-2012)
Author/Speaker
I know that
when I mention “Never, Never Land”, your minds goes to the home of Peter Pan,
the boy who never grew up, created by Scottish Author, J.M. Barrie in
1904. It is fun to think of a life when
you never had to grow up and daily faced wonders and adventures – not to mention
being able to fly. However, that is not
reality. I remind my daughter often how
when she was young she always told me, “I can’t wait till I’m a grown up.” Today, she is married, she and her husband
own their own business, and she has six kids and homeschools. I love to ask, “So, how do you like being a
grown up?”
In the context which I am
talking here, never, never land has little to do with youth or flight. I am talking about time. You see, in never, never land, time was never
an issue. They went from one day to
another just the same as they were yesterday and the day before. On the journey to achievement however,
tomorrow hasn’t come and yesterday is gone forever. All you have is today.
When you start to think about putting
things off till tomorrow, you start to lose track of the meaning of time. Success-minded people need to understand that
there is no tomorrow. Tomorrow has a
tendency to never come to those who depend on it. I am not talking about death, although that
happens too. I am talking of never
getting to the things that you should have done now. Tomorrow offers no motivation to get things
done.
Tomorrow says, “You have
time. There is no rush.” It causes you to believe that your goals and
dreams are not really that important. If
they can be put off this time, they can be put off tomorrow as well; and off
again the next day, and the day after that.
Before you know it, it is never and you will get what never brings,
nothing at all.
To discover how you can achieve the dream you have believed was
impossible for too long, read On The
Journey To Achievement by John Patrick Hickey. You can get a signed copy for yourself and
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