Have you promised to start saving just as soon as you’re making more money? Are you determined to get your debt paid off, right after your next vacation? Are you planning on making a Will sometime soon? Sounds to me like you’re suffering from Someday Syndrome.

No doubt the reason you keep making commitments is because you know these are things you should be doing. You’re smart enough to realize that what you’re doing now isn’t really working for ya. You’re not disciplined enough to actually do what you should, so you use any excuse you can come up with as a reason to defer.

You should be more organized. You should make a list of your bills and keep track of them, so you don’t make your payments late. You should save for what you want to buy instead of plunking more on your credit cards. You should, you should, you should.

Y’know, if anyone else disappointed you as much as you disappoint yourself, they’d probably be dust on your shoes. So why do you settle for second best from yourself?

How can you live with all that disappointment? Do you look yourself in the mirror and say, “You should…” And then, when you don’t, do you beat yourself up, call yourself names, feel defeated.

Stop. Right now. Stop being mean to yourself. Exchange retribution, guilt and disappointment for the simple act of doing something differently to make a change. Take action. Move forward. Not because you “should”, but because when you do, you will feel happier.

When I started in sales many, many years ago, I had to make cold calls. That’s when you’d call up some stranger and try and get their agreement to meet with you so you could sell them something. I hated making cold calls. I hated making cold calls so much that every morning for a year I would toss my cookies before I went to work.

I set myself the goal of making 25 cold calls a day. And I did it. Over time, it got easier to make the calls. Having been rejected 2,878 times, the next rejection rolled off me like water off a duck’s back. And when a body said “yes” to a meeting, I was elated.

I became pretty successful at selling. I learned to handle the objections shot my way deftly and with grace. I learned to take rejection in stride. But mostly, I learned to Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. I didn’t stop until I’d make those 25 calls each day. And I became happier and happier in sales as I realized just what I could accomplish.

Right now, write down the one thing you are going to do TODAY to take action. Exchange Someday Syndrome for Get It Done.

Remember that soppy saying from the Sixties: “Today is the first day of the rest of your life”… IT IS! Today is the day you exchange Someday Syndrome for something you can be proud of, something that will make you happy.

So, what’s it gonna be?