This was written…not by Nike…. but by my 85 year old friend and mentor William Allen Zulker as a suggestion to his children and grandchildren. I thought it prudent to stop and listen for this man does not just talk…he lives!
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More and more I convinced that we could accomplish so much more in life if we adopted the slogan, “Do It Now!
How many times have you heard people say, “I wish I would have done that when I was young; now I’m too old.” No doubt you have said it as well.
But why is it that we put an age-limit on the things we dream of doing?
Could it be that we find that it is a good excuse or at least an acceptable one for not doing our best or the most we can?
Does it console us and ameliorate a feeling of guilt or failure?
I’m here to say that it is seldom, and probably never, “too late” this side of death. As long as we have breath and are in a reasonable state of health, there most always is time to do what we would like to do. So, dream, dream, dream, and begin to put those dreams into reality!
Another mistake we often make in life is to “put it off until later.” But “later” rarely becomes “now.”
As I look back over eighty-five years, my parents, or somebody, must have convinced me that I should “do it now” regardless of my age.
- I was twenty-two years old when I first went to college.
- I was thirty years old when I was ordained as a minister.
- I was fifty-two years old when I earned my doctoral degree.
- I was sixty-six years old when I wrote my first book.
- I was seventy-three years old when I opened a book store.
- I was seventy-nine years old when I started flying lessons.
- I was eighty years old when I started helicopter-flying lessons.
- I was eighty-three years old when I started to write a monthly newspaper column.
So, as you look to the future, as everyone seems to do, and as you consider what you want to do then, I suggest that you give more attention to the present and what you can do right now.
NOW IS THE TIME!
DON’T LET IT SLIP BY!
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