Jack Blacks “Gulliver” is about to change his life. He’s been in the mailroom too long, fooling around and fooling himself too long, afraid to do anything but the same old thing. Now life has thrown one of those “what are you going to do with this?” moments at him. Wrongs need righted and bad guys vanquished. And there’s no one else to do it. You can hate it, or you can accept it as a gift.
"Gulliver, you work in the mailroom,” his wish-she-was my-girlfriend Darcy says, doubting.
“Not today I don’t.”
And today he doesn’t.
What if, just for today, you did the same thing?
Not today I don’t…
- act like it doesn’t matter
- get by with as little as possible
- grumble and gripe and feel sorry for myself
- go thru the motions, phone it in, line up at the time clock
- tell myself I’m a loser and daydream that I’m not
- believe that little voice that says it’s hopeless
- let my feelings tell me what to do
- act like no one’s watching
- live as if there’s no God
Not today I don’t.
What if, just for this next year, you did the same thing?
What if you changed your definition of work? What if your work was not just the stuff you do, but the attitude you have about it, and about who you are and why you do it? What if your work was to be fully who you are, as if today is the only day there is? Just for today. Just for this next year.
“We don’t put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment we can change our lives. This second we can sit down and do our work.” – Steven Pressfield
