Step Ya Game Up

I haven't been motivated to write any blogs recently. I'm smack in the middle of a month long vacation and I've been mad active (I'm in New York right now). Over the past couple of months, I've been motivated to step my game up in certain areas of my life. I'm not sure what my inspiration was, but I feel like I should try to pin point it for those who may read this so that others can gain from my sharing.

If I had to name a point at which my motivation started, I'd have to say when I watched the movie Bucket List starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. If you haven't seen it, you won't need to after reading my summary. If you wanna go watch anyway, that's cool too. The movie was about the two older gentlemen being diagnosed with cancer and discovering that they have only a couple of months to live. I remember how rational Morgan Freeman's character seemed and how when he heard the news, he recognized that maybe he didn't necessarily want to know. I watched this movie at a time when I had been debating with myself the validity of common sayings. One of the two that plagued my mind was the saying, tomorrow is not promised. This is a saying that is often used, but rarely truly believed.

I have been debating with friends about what this statement should mean in terms of how we live our lives. I definitely don't think that understanding this saying means that you go out and spend all of your money and convince yourself that there is no future. However, I think that procrastination has become such a way of life for most of us that we don't truly value time. I decided shortly before or shortly after watching that movie that I would stop putting off small or simple tasks that I could do now. So, I started to talk less and do more.

Before my month long vacation I went on a weekend trip to New Orleans. I planned out and executed a birthweek for the first time. I went on a cruise for the first time. I went jet skiing, then skydiving, and I rode a motorcycle (dirtbike, not sure if there's a difference) for the first time...with no prior training or lessons (I don't endorse it), went out of the country foreal (no bordering country, La Republica Dominicana), and now I'm back visiting NY again and on my way to Toronto. Granted this is an extreme vacation, I feel that I've gotten things done that I could have done much earlier in life but due to procrastination and the belief that I can do it tomorrow I simply didn't.

I guess the purpose of all this writing is to let the world know that I'm stepping my game up. I'm definitely not simply applying this attitude to vacation time, but I plan to apply this attitude to the way I study, the way I work out, and the way I live. I do endorse that idea.