Step 5: Last Day

If not you, then who?
If not now, then when?”
– Hillel

READ IT

WOW! As you read this and prepare for the week, you’re close to finishing a month of stepping closer to your Performance Edge! How do you feel? Have you been able to reach closer to your goal? Have you been able to see the picture more clearly of what you can have? If you can, you are on the path to achieving more than you ever realized. If the view is a little fuzzy, it’s time to step up and take control!CRlogonobackground

I want to ask you a simple question. If you were told you only had today left on this earth, what would you do with your last day?

I know some of you are saying; I wouldn’t be on a diet, I wouldn’t be at work, I wouldn’t be this and I wouldn’t do that. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? The reason I ask is that I had that exact question asked of myself recently, and my mind raced! I would want to spend it with the lady of my dreams – my real life angel that is in my life! Second, I thought I’d get plane tickets so we could go see and spend time with my family. Then I thought; no that would take up most of my day with travel. Have them fly here. I’d get on the phone and contact as many friends as I could and tell them how much I love them, appreciate them and thank them for being part of my life. I would gather as many of those that were close to me as possible and we would have a party like you wouldn’t believe! I’d really LIVE THAT DAY! That was my thought.

What’s wrong with the above scenario? What’s wrong with the answer you came up with? WE DON’T KNOW WHEN OUR LAST DAY WILL ARRIVE! We don’t have control over our life span, just our performance plan! I for one, do not want to have my last day come around with me saying, I SHOULD HAVE!

We can’t wait for the right moments, the best time, or the next season to do what we know we need to do and should do today. The bible says if you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything (Ecclesiastes 11:4) and Napoleon Hill said, “Never wait. The time will never be just right!”

I ask you, whatever your last day plan was, act on it today, do it immediately, do it with excitement. William James, the great writer and philosopher said, “To change one’s life start immediately – do it flamboyantly – no exceptions!” WHAT A CHALLENGE!

Someone once told me you cannot do much about the length of your life, but you can do a whole lot about its width and depth. We don’t know the exact length of our life, but we certainly know how to add to the width and depth. So this isn’t about me telling you to just sit and do nothing. I’m telling you to take control of your performance plan! Isn’t that why you are reading this blog? Isn’t that why you made a decision to step closer to your PERFORMANCE EDGE and change something in your life? At some point over the past month, you made a choice to change your life. What a challenge for the last month it’s been. I know it has. Has part of your life span improved because of the challenge you set for yourself in your performance plan? Or has your performance plan this past month been marked with “white out” and “eraser scratching.”

DO IT

1. This week the DO IT is easy! TODAY act on your one day plan, do those important things you thought of TODAY. Don’t wait until tomorrow – you never know the future. After that, review the performance plan that you set for yourself, reset those goals and priorities if you need to, and know that you will change your life! Don’t change it quietly and privately, do it with a bit of flair. Add a bit of flamboyance to your life now!
2. When you do your one day plan, grab someone else and get them involved in your dream. Let them in on your vision. Let them know that even though you never know what tomorrow will bring, that today you’ll make the most out of what you can do, and that you want them to go along for the exciting ride. Let them know that you’re in control of your life while you’re here and plan to make the most of every day!