Not now. I’ll do it later. Maybe tomorrow. I’ll do it when I have some time. I’ll get to it later. I’ll find some time
How many of you in this room
have said that to yourself, your child, your spouse or significant other, your
boss? Why do we do that? Is it due to lack of confidence, fear of failure,
laziness, too much to do, finances?
As I reflect on the things I
have on the to-do-list of my life and all the things I have put off, I have
come to realize that I have wasted a lot of time planning it but not actually
making moves to execute them.
Think of the parent who never
too took time to play with his child and before they knew it, the child had
become a grown-up, a stranger and had no close relationship with that parent,
or the person who never said I love you or paid any attention to their
significant other, until it was too late and the relationship was broken beyond
repair, or the unforgiving person who held a grudge until the offender had
passed away and it was too late to say “I am sorry” or “I forgive you”? Think of the person who wanted that
particular job, but did not prepare for it or even apply for it? That raise or promotion you never asked for? That second career you never pursued? Or that other thing you are passionate about
but never make time to do?
I have always wanted to learn how to play the
piano, learn how to sew, go to Alaska, to see the Northern Lights. I always wanted to see the Niagara Falls, and one of the wonders of the world, The Victoria
Falls, in Zambia and Zimbabwe, East
Africa (of which the explorer David Livingstone
remarked when he first saw them "scenes so lovely must have been gazed
upon by angels in their flight".). I have always wanted go up the Sears
Tower in Chicago or the London Eye, in
London, to see the Opera house in Sidney, Australia, the great Wall of China, and another
wonder of the world, the magnificent Taj Mahal monument, built in India by Emperor
Shah Jahan in 1653, in memory of his deceased wife Queen Mumtaz. Seems
a lot, but then, not really. These
things take a lifetime
These are some of the things
in my life’s’ to-do list. Some I have
not accomplished because of family responsibilities, finances, some because of
fear and some because I just have not made the time. Some I have no clue why.
One thing I have come to
realize, ladies and gentlemen that time’s a passing! Today is the day! Now is the time to do the things that excite
you, make you tick, things you are passionate about and dream about. Time waits for no one. Cliché but so true!
As for me, I will wait no
more. I will accomplish the ones I can,
and the rest will have to go into the dustbin of history.
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