“If you were going where I was going…”
Opportunity is something everyone waits for but few actually pursue. The night before the state meet in wrestling my senior year in high school, Coach Bright gave me a card that said, “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships were made for.” (To make better grammatical sense, it should say “that’s not the reason they make ships,” thus, ending a sentence without an unnecessary preposition. The PANKO Strength & Speed blog has much to offer the reader, beyond performance training.) It is the most significant greeting card I have been given.
People sit on the sidelines of life as opportunity passes them by EVERYDAY waiting for the signal, the okay, or the “right time” (emphasis added for the faint-hearted tone). There is no right time, there is no such thing as the right time. There is only the now and what is done now greatly dictates the circumstances of the future. The “right time” is a false divider between being too scared to take action and FINALLY deciding to quit being stupid AND cowardly and taking action albeit on a lessor opportunity.
Unfortunately, in life, people tend to gravitate to two things. They gravitate toward things that make them comfortable and they gravitate towards the status quo. People who do not take risks will eventually wish they had done something more. Individuals who fall in lock-step with “the flow” never achieve what they could have had they taken themselves out of their comfort zone and gone above and beyond.
It seems as though society is full of sheeple – ignorantly and subsequently meandering with the herd. Life is too short to meander with anybody. Decide to be different, sprint, get ahead, lead the way, and then go pursue endeavors others are unwilling to pursue. Jim Rohn, one of America’s great entrepreneurs, said it best, “If you were going where I was going, you would want to get there too!”
PANKO Strength & Speed, Proud Stewards of the American Dream
[...] Sadly, most individuals are too gun shy to implement. They are perfectionists. They are waiting for the “right time” and do not want to make a mistake. My personal coach, Scott Manning, a disciple of Dan Kennedy uses Dan’s phrase “Good is good enough.” Do not wait around for the “right time.” When the right time “presents itself” it will be too late. [...]