I started listening to an audio book called “The Woman Who Did.”  The book title intrigued me, because it sounds like a powerful woman who decided she wasn’t just happy with going through life living with a mundane existence.  It really sounds like a woman who was all about action. It doesn’t sound like someone who only thinking about making a difference, but she already acted and made a change.

The cool thing about my perceptions regarding the title and I could be completely wrong, but just the mere title of this book made me really think about life this week.  It made me say to myself, “Marsha, you will not be a woman who sits around planning out your life, at the end of the day, you will be able to say, “Look at all you did today.”   I could put the book down and not listen to the rest of the book and never know it’s true meaning and what the author Grant Allen was trying to convey, and still be changed as a result of his writing.

How cool is that? The fact that a one-line thought can spur an individual to action.  What will it take for you to begin acting on the things you want to do with your life? How many gifts and abilities are on the inside of you, just waiting for you to “do” something about them.

I really hope that in this story, the lady will end up doing some things with her life because she believed her life was worth living to the fullest, regardless of what others told her she should do.  I am hoping the story will end with some amazing insights into taking chances and doing the impossible.  I want her to change the world, all because she “did” what other people wouldn’t take the chance to do.

I love my imagination; I can pretty much write the story in my own head. It doesn’t even matter if I finish this story, or what it is even about at this point. It has served to cause me to rev up my thinking. Let me ask you the same questions I asked myself today.

1. What will I do today that will change my tomorrow?

2.  What are the things others will look at in my life and decide they want to make changes in their own life?

3. What will I be willing to do, to make sure my dreams come true regardless of what others tell me my limits are?

4. What is keeping me from being the best “me” I can be?

Do you want to be known as the “The Man/Woman Who Did” or “That person who sat around wishing the world would make them happy.”?

You have to decide for yourself and then go out there and make it happen.