I really believe anything is possible. You only need two things to do anything: motivation and time.

Motivation is the tricky one.

Sometimes people want something, but not all of it, and think they can separate it. I’m a pretty fit guy, but it is because I want both to be fit and I like to be active and eat healthy. My friend is fit, but hates it, because he just wants to be fit. He has no motivation to become or stay fit.

A classic old line, “I don’t like writing, but I want to have written,” captures this perfectly. Motivation is simple when it all fits together. I love to write at least as much, if not more, than being able to say I wrote something. I think most people are amazed by those that are motivated for the entire set.

Time is the one that gets me.

I can have motivation dripping out of my eyes, but without enough time, nothing happens. Motivation to act, without action. I think that’s the definition of frustration.

(I love the saying, “I’ll make time for that.” I really want that time-making spell, but I think I would abuse it horribly.)

But patience, or stubbornness, can make up for limited time. Even if I only carve out an hour a day, at the end of a year, I will have “made” over 360 hours. That’s 9 forty-hour work weeks. Two months is a lot.

If you really want something, you can do anything.

If you had two months to do whatever you wanted, what would you do?

The post Do Anything appeared first on C. H. MacLean.