Today, you have 100% of your current ability to complete a task, see through a goal, or acquire some experience. Tomorrow, you will have most of the desires for accomplishments that you have today; however, tomorrow, a number of the motivating factors leading up to completion of your tasks or experience-gaining will be diminished in some way.
Example 1: Meeting With A Client
In this example, you are more than ready to meet with a client today. He is ready to converse with you about your business plan, and you have some punch-lines to utilize in mind. You have the option to set up the meeting for today, or to set it up for some future time. Today, all the variables are ready to go. If left for another day, any of these issues could come up:
1. You no longer have the passion to present your punch-lines effectively.
2. The client will cancel on you and pick another person to work with
3. Your job set changes, and you are no longer interested in participating with him
4. Some pressures come up, and the opportunity to meet with him seems to be out of reach based on your new priorities and deadlines
The list could continue, and it represents that not taking the action which would be completely doable, and possibly easy to do, today, might lead to it not being able to be done at any time, due to changing conditions. It is a poignant thought to keep in mind that an opportunity taken for granted and postponed today will not likely return in its original form.
Example 2: Learning Vocabulary Words
In this example, your goal is to learn vocabulary words, in order to expand your base of high-end word choices. This could be due to your current interest in doing so, or due to an advantage it will give you on some sort of assignment, project, or job type. In your current state, you might feel like you would like to spend a couple of hours writing new words down, and using them with others. If this fleeting interest in learning vocabulary was shrugged off, and tossed to a future time to make use of, here are some issues that could come up:
1. Once again, your passion for learning vocabulary could diminish
2. In months of time, your capacity to learn vocabulary at a high rate could be reduced a point where it wouldn’t be enjoyable to do so
3. A person that you might have been able to learn vocabulary with might now be completed or uninterested in learning vocabulary with you now
4. An opportunity comes up where your expanded vocabulary would have come into use, and your feeling of regret of not putting in the effort early on leaves you uninterested in both vocabulary expansion and chasing of the opportunity that would have used it
Keep in mind that this is not being transmitted as a threat that you can’t complete something important to you if you don’t start it today, but as a reminder that your capacity to dig into it and unearth your energy for it tends to diminish from the time the thought of taking action on it was created. Having a thought that you will be better off to start something a month from now, unless drastic changes are taking place between now and then, can feel good to process, but is not likely to be rooted in reality.
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