You may have heard the proverb/truism, ‘the best time to plant a tree was yesterday, the second best time to plant a tree is today’. Probably the best time would have been 20 years ago, but the point remains.
I like this saying.
Why?
One of the things that I’ve done since Chris passed away was get more serious on a consistent level about doing push-ups every day. (I know there are a number of people that have taken up this same challenge. Fantastic!)
Slowly, I’ve worked up to 50 per day still way off Chris’ 200, but that’s ok…I’m the ‘old man’! There’s been a few days where because of schedule or whatever, I haven’t got those push-ups done. You know what’s easy? Making that first ‘miss day’ a second and the second a third.
That’s when the tree quote thing becomes very important.
The best time to do push-ups was yesterday.
The second best time is today…like right now.
Be The Best.
I love this business quote by the owners of Kin’s Farm Market, one of my business clients. They said, ‘our business is simple, but not easy’. Love it. Many things are relatively simple. Do some push-ups every day…relatively simple. But not so easy in practice.
Change itself isn’t that easy, but the small steps along the way are relatively simple.
Interesting. I continue to learn along this journey and Chris himself was an amazing example of a kid who heard from coaches and college players that a good diet was key to success and so he made small, simple decisions to eliminate fast foods, pop and junk food from his diet, one day, two days, three weeks, four months and then years.
He told me that his ‘trick’ was asking himself every time he looked at a food that was tempting and asking himself if it would be worth the work to burn that off or would it be easier just to avoid it in the first place. Pretty amazing will power for a young man.
Simple…not easy.
Better to plant yesterday, but yesterday is gone so let’s deal with today.
These simple thoughts have put me down on the ground many times in the past 6 months, pounding out a few more push-ups when I didn’t really ‘have the time’ or some other excuse.
Chris…I will continue to use your passion to inspire me…and I know you continue to inspire many.
Be The Best. 