One of my favorite sayings is the Nike slogan, “Just do it.”  I believe it has many connotations.

When you hear it, the easiest thing to say is, Just do what?

But that’s the mentality of waiting around for someone to instruct us what to do.

I believe that self-starting is not a blessing; it’s a reality.

If you spend your whole life taking orders from people, you have to ask yourself:  Is there anything original that’s inside me that I’m wasting?  When I’m gone, will anybody else pick up the slack of the talents I shunned?

We’d still be living in caves if we didn’t “just do it.”  Build a house of straw; when it burns down, build it of stone; when it’s too cold, put in a fire.  It’s a gradual trip, but why shouldn’t we be the ones to “just do it”?  Why does it always have to be somebody else?

People say it’s the easy thing to do, to leave it to someone else.  To me, it may or may not be easy, but it sure isn’t fulfilling.  I suppose it depends on what your vision of your life and the world is.

You’re born and you die; what happens in the middle is what counts.  I think that goes on forever.

Do we want to carry around a bag of bullshit that we happened to find on the side of the road or a bag of diamonds that we helped mine?

Just do it, and then be done with it.  Be proud of it.  It’s yours.

Matt