I believe most of us have dreams and goals. Hopefully we’ve accomplished some or most of them. In speaking for myself, I can say that I have so many dreams and goals…most that I’ve always had and, truthfully, that I have not accomplished or even remotely started to accomplish.

I can come up with a few excuses for not doing – or starting – and, especially finishing, some of those. But the excuses are still not going to change the fact that they’re still not done. I probably even have some good ones, that some may justify as valid, but my innermost being cannot truly use any of them to justify reasons why I’ve let myself not finish writing books I’ve started, not finish college, get 80 lbs overweight, etc. There’s no excuse that will ever satisfy. Now, finishing something that I’ve started…that will.

It reminds me of a story from the Bible about a man who had been ill for 38 years and waited by the pool of Bethesda, where an angel of the Lord would go stir up the water and people who made it in, got healed. Jesus asked him, “Do you want to get well?”, and the man answered, “Sir, I have no one to put me in the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am coming [to get into it myself], someone else steps down ahead of me.” Jesus said to him, “Get up; pick up your pallet and walk.” It then says the man immediately was healed and recovered his strength and picked up his pallet and walked. (John 5:1-9)

We all have excuses and some of us have used the same ones for as long as this man did, or maybe even longer, but do you notice how Jesus didn’t even address those excuses? He just told him, straight up, to get up. But before that, He asked him the simple, yet obvious, question – “Do you want to get well?” And, so I ask you – myself, as well – the same thing. That, I would say is the first step, or, “what do you really want?”

What are you willing to do or sacrifice, for what you truly want? Are you willing to give up perfection for just doing something? I think that is a lot of the problem, sometimes, is that we wait for circumstances or ourselves to be favorable or perfect and we trip ourselves up waiting for that, when most times, that will never happen. Most of think we have to be “perfect” before we make any moves, but if we’re waiting for that, we’ll never do anything.

“When you aim for perfection, you discover it’s a moving target”– George Fisher

We get too busy chasing that “moving target” and end up wearing ourselves out that we never even continue the purpose for which we started in the first place. That’s what I’ve done with ‘Get Real’. The book that I still have to complete, the movement that I’ve wanted to start and have change the world, the online show and podcast that was started but I let fall to the wayside… I’ve waited for perfection, mostly in myself, before I could let myself continue and though I hate to admit this, I think I’ve done that because I’ve worried what other would think, wanting and hoping for people to see perfection in it.

Screw that!

I’m not perfect and I never will be. I will not write perfectly or speak perfectly. When I make videos or write blog posts and books, my grammar may not always be perfect, though I kind of pride myself on being a punctuation nazi at times. I may get nervous and stutter or trip over my words, but I will still make videos and still write all I want. I will no longer let anything stop me from going after my dreams and goals and my hope for you is the same.

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” – Vincent VanGogh

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt