stop being a dreamerSomeday.

I love that term.

“Do you want to go to the movies?”

“Sure. Someday.”

“Would you like to go to Venice, Italy?”

“Yeah. Someday I will.”

“How about starting that diet?”

“I think someday I will.”

I didn’t realize that there were eight days in the week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Someday. I think there are couples out there who are Mr. and Mrs. Someday. They procrastinate their life away together.

“Someday I’m going to do this, and someday I’m going to do that.”

I know people who read a book and see something great in it, then think to themselves, “I’m going to go do that someday.”

We live in a society full of “somedays.”

It infects all ages. It’s a rampant disease. It’s called the “Someday Disease.” The problem is it’s not an eighth day of the week at all. Your seven days of the week really look like this… Someday. Someday. Someday. Someday. Someday. Someday. Someday. Someday.

Someday turns into some month, which turns into some year. Stop putting things off. You have no idea when this journey of life is going to come to an end. We have an expiration date stamped on the bottom of our foot, like the stamp on the bottom of a milk container.

In fact, today I threw out some butter. It expired yesterday. I was thinking to myself, how does butter even know when to expire?

That’s pretty cool. Is it in the DNA of butter? What if I eat it after the expiration date? What’s going to happen to me?  Am I going to curdle inside? Am I going to die? Is something awful going to happen?

Someday.

We don’t have an expiration date. But every single day, people act like we do, and they act like it’s way in the future. The real problem with that ‘someday’ mentality is that it’s never really in the future. It could be tomorrow. You’re going to expire just like that tub of butter did in my fridge, and you’re going to have a list of someday’s.

Today I’d like you to do some of the things you’ve always wanted to do. In order to do that, in order to change a habit, you’re going to have to start applying yourself today. Now. Today is the best word. That’s why everybody calls it ‘today’. I’m going to do it today. Today sounds so much more positive than someday doesn’t it?

You get my drift and you know where I’m coming from, you know I’m trying to inspire you. I’m trying to tell you that a list of ‘somedays’ is never going to happen. Just do one thing today, one thing you’ve procrastinated over, one thing you’ve put off, one thing you’ve always wanted to do. That’s all you need to do, one thing. See what happens when you do that one thing. Then tomorrow, do it again and again and again.