There can’t be a better compliment than to have someone say they found something you wrote useful, and that they achieved dramatic results with it. Of course, I’m assuming here that finishing any pending work in the office is always dramatic … and grand pianos play in the background, and divine light shines down on your desk from the heavens (AKA the boss’s/overlord’s office). I’m not much of the office type, so maybe this is just the hopeless romantic in me talking.

If I ever start one of those multi-million dollar self-help personal-motivation businesses, you can be sure your “testimonial” shall find an important place on miscellaneous book covers, and audio book covers, and workshop posters, and … you get the idea.

I shall end with a virtual toast to our future shared fame … on miscellaneous book covers, and audio book covers, and workshop posters, and I hope to see you around here more often. Does this mean I have to take my own advice and get down to writing more?

Keep in touch,
Samir

I do enjoyed sense of humor in your writing.

You’re right, it’s not just about semantics. The way you face a challenge, and the language and thought process behind your actions changes the way you deal with things. Having said that let us not be too enthusiastic to judge the fight as being automatically the more negative way of dealing with a situation.

I agree with you, a bird in flight does not fight the wind, but soars with it. However, a person stuck in the cycle of procrastination is not a bird in flight. They are a grounded bird, and sometimes perhaps even one that has yet to learn how to fly.

If you’ve ever seen a young bird trying to learn how to fly for the first time, it is rarely an elegant sight. It is a struggle. A struggle against the very real and completely irresistable force of gravity. To learn how to soar, the bird needs to first fight off its state of inertia. It needs to thrust itself against gravity itself. All fights are not negative, and some situations require a fight.

As human beings, we have been given a beautiful range of emotions at our disposal. Aggression is one of them. To blindly consign agression to the “evil” category would be to deny the reality of our existence. Agression is real, as is joy, sorrow, jealousy and the whole spectrum of human emotion. The trick is not to deny the baser insticts, but instead to control them and channel them when appropriate to accomplish higher goals. In my mind, that is the true meaning and the challenge of being human.

Martial arts teaches you that it is better to deflect than to block.

Though it may seem like semantics changing “Fight to Overcome” will make for a more powerfully impacting post.

I do agree that at the end of the day action is what defeats procrastination.