• Why Don't You?

    edited by Alexander Becker

    The difference between excellence and mediocrity? Action.

    Initial output is important. What initial input triggers your action in the first place?

    Is there any moderate amount of anything that could get you started? No? I thought so.

    It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.

    While it helps to start from scratch, you don't necessarily have to lose everything in order to evolve -- it's the easiest way though.

    I could. Complacency. Inertia. Hesitation. Laziness. Insecurity. Being content enough. Mediocrity?

    Why does it always have to be a shock, something extreme, something radical, some drastic experience, to get us moving? Why do we look best when we're totally exhausted? Why do we have to run a whole marathon? Why do we literally have to burn the ships? Why can't we just start?

    Because maybe -- maybe, it would be too easy. If it would be so easy, everyone could and eventually would do it.

    Enough, sufficient, moderate -- that is what is holding back and keeping together the mediocre.

    Mediocrity is not the problem nor is it the enemy. Mediocrity is the result of not getting started. Get started and you will eventually evolve and excel. But if you don't -- you won't.

    I can. The world is not enough, nothing will ever suffice, and moderation is not a means to achieve anything remarkable.

    You know that you could. I know that you can.

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  • Hesitation: Do Anyway or Do Not?

    edited by Alexander Becker

    When in doubt, don't vs. Do exactly what you hesitate doing.

    There are two possible causes for hesitation. The one where you hesitate because you doubt the outcome and on the other hand the kind of hesitation where you are not sure about the way to tackle your job.

    The way is, once started, easily adjustable, but only when started. When the destination, the goal, is clear and you truly stand behind it, the actual way to achieve it is nothing to worry about.

    The outcome, in contrast, determines the way. If and when you hesitate, once you do hesitate, when the outcome is not desirable, when it feels like "it's not worth the effort," you can just as well leave it altogether. Don't even start.

    Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. --William Hazlitt

    Similarly, if something doesn't work the exact way you expect it -- leave it alone.

    This is not blindly subscribing to fate, quite the opposite, the mere notion that something "shouldn't be" is enough to taint your commitment and it practically guarantees sub-optimal results. In which case, you can't do your best and -- just as well do nothing at all.

    One more reason to do instead of pondering doing or not --

    Live that moment as fast as you can and fill it with as much life as possible. Do not live it as if it was the last one, live it as if it was the only one.

    In other words, if it feels like a chore, if effortlessly isn't the best way to describe what you're up to, if procrastination is even an issue, please don't bother and step back, for others might just love doing what you so -- don't.

    When you're clear and positive about the outcome, do -- push through hesitation, whatever it takes and the way will pave itself for you. When you don't even know where to go, let alone like where you're going to be, when you ever so silently resist or reject the outcome, don't -- give in to hesitation, stay where you are and find another goal worth the effort.

    Determine which kind of hesitation you deal with, then decide about doing anyway or not doing at all.

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