Remember my friend James and his valient effort to quit smoking?
Well, today marks 30 glorious days that James has gone without a cigarette! Isn’t that awesome?! He’s still blogging about the experience and I have loved reading about it every step of the way. To borrow a concept often advocated by Ali Farahnakian, one of our improv teachers and the owner of The PIT, these 30 days that James has spent not smoking would have passed no matter what he was doing with his life. Had he been smoking, not smoking, exercising, not exercising, blogging about it, not blogging about it – 30 days would have come and gone. Time waits for no one.
That very consideration was a huge motivator for me in genuinely and finally embarking on the journey to leave my desk job. Another year will pass no matter where I go each morning. And if I’m lucky enough to be healthy and able at the end of that passing year, I should hope that I would have spent it pursuing progress that’s meaningful to me, rather than waiting for progress to magically appear.
In James’ entry today he wrote, “Its amazing how much we tell ourselves we can’t do certain things. Its also equally amazing how overcoming one obstacle in your life can open doors to so many other things. Once you do one thing that you have thought for so long that you could not do, everything else gets easier.”
He’s exactly right.
Congratulations, James!! You’re an inspiration.
