Shut Up And Do It Already

Ryan — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:09:45 +0000

I ruffle feathers, sometimes on purpose, and other times it’s without any intended effort whatsoever. The point is that my personality is abrasive. I enjoy knocking people off their guard. Why you ask? Because I find that I get more honest, sincere and thoughtful words spoken to me when someone is out of their comfort zone. The long-winded rehearsed responses are gone. Brevity rules the night. All said, it uses the usual ‘fodder’ to get the person I am ‘attacking’ to “Shut Up” and “Do It Already” — and tell me what is really on their mind. Yes I said fodder, and yes I said attacking — get over it.

I live by a different code, I suggest you pick up a name tag and join the party. We all could use a little Shut Up And Do It Already in our personal AND professional lives. The general consensus, is that the general masses convince themselves that tomorrow is more important than today. I call bull shit. I could fill up the rest of this post with motivational tactics,

Shut Up And Do It!

but this isn’t a motivational blog, and you won’t get anything that will help you lose 30 lbs and make $3,000 – $5,000 a month from watching television at home for only $39.95. I’m sorry to disappoint.

What you will get is a phrase that in only six words will prove to you that you can do what it is you are wanting to do: Shut Up And Do It Already.

Are you wanting to lose weight? Shut Up And Do It Already.
Are you wanting to increase your sales? Shut Up And Do It Already.
Are you wanting to eat healthier? Shut Up And Do It Already.
Are you wanting to start a secondary income in your off hours? Shut Up And Do It Already.
Are you wanting to start dating again? Shut Up And Do It Already.
Are you wanting to explore new employment? Shut Up And Do It Already.
Are you wanting to improve your client acquisition conversions? Shut Up And Do It Already.

So often we step on our own toes planning on being successful and not acting on being successful. Do you think those people you read about in the Wall Street Journal got there by accident? How about those people in Health magazine, did they lose 35 pounds by catching up on their DVR? Do you think they went to bed wishing for success and they woke up wished granted? (Take away all the inherited money examples you are saying aloud now in trying to disprove the truth I’m slapping you with.) Whoever said good things come to those who wait, lied. Patience isn’t a virtue when it comes to being successful. Hard work is.

What do you have to lose? There are two places to go from where you are in your personal AND professional life — up the success ladder … and not up the success ladder. Society doesn’t determine what your successes are. They can be completely different on a person to person basis. I’m fairly certain that Steve Jobs and I have different monthly or yearly success goals. THAT DOES NOT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM MAKE MINE ANY LESS IMPORTANT. Steve Jobs doesn’t care about my success goals, and hell, I don’t care about his. Stop living your life through other people and their dreams. Start acting on your own. Don’t over-think or over-analyze the possible outcomes. Success doesn’t come to those who wait. Success doesn’t come to those who have a plan. Success is tackled, beaten up, and given a swirly by those that do. Plain and simple. Shut Up And Do It Already.

This isn’t the blog look I’m relaunching, this isn’t even the live blog. However it was time for me to Shut Up And Do It Already. Even if ‘it’ was not what my end goal was. I was out of excuses Mr. Slaughter.

Thoughts Poured Out By: Ryan Lee Cox

Shut Up And Do It Already