31 Days: Do Just Do It

This year's 31 Days has been more like 31 posts but it has felt so good to push myself and get back into blogging regularly.

It has also been a great reminder for me that just do it isn't only for selling tennis shoes, it's an awesome way to live. Action is so much better than inaction. Nothing changes if you don't do at least a little something.

Life is like a swimming pool, sometimes you just have to jump in. The water is only cold for awhile and once you've acclimated to it, floating around is so much better than standing on the side wondering what it's like in the deep end. Yes, it can be scary, but so can doing nothing.

Do. Whether it's something as simple as writing a blog post every day for 31 days or taking a huge leap to a new career. Climb the high dive and plunge into the unknown. It may be the quickest way to get to the other side of what you are facing and to get to the life that is waiting for you.

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