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"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mr. Goethe was a pretty smart dude. He was a literary genius and avid scientist who understood that it takes effort to achieve anything in this world. He knew that it was more important to focus on the end results of his goals than it was to fret over the steps to get there.

Too often, when thinking about taking on new challenges, like setting up and running an online auction, we are focused on the layers of work that must be put in as opposed to the end result. Often we are handicapped by these thoughts, when in fact, most of the time, we are completely capable of reaching new heights. In a personal example of this, I live only three hours from my best friend Scooter, but see him just a handful of times a year. We each dread that 180 minutes in the car. Whenever Scooter and I get together, we have a great time and wonder why we don’t connect more. We forget in those moments about what keeps us from having more experiences like these - simply our own perceptions of what is easy vs. what is difficult. When your online auction is ultimately up and running, and your organization is seeing the direct benefits from your labor, I’m sure you will quickly forget about all those hours you put into the project.

We as individuals are capable of amazing feats if we focus on the end goal instead of the preparation that goes into reaching new heights. Here are just a few examples…

• Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayer once cleared 8 feet in 1993… that is as high as the average ceiling in a U.S. living room
• In 1937, Professor Jean Broadhurst identified the measles virus, which became the first step in treating this deadly disease
• Benoît Lecomte swan from Hyannis, MA to his native France in 1998, covering 3,716 miles in the process
• At age 79 in 2004, Dorothy Simpson participated in a zero-gravity flight near Moscow, Russia

Life can be complicated, with work, kids, bills and everything else that makes up our day, but you have to have confidence in yourself that you can do anything you are willing to commit yourself to. And to paraphrase what our friend Johann said at the beginning of this piece, you are one day closer to completing your goal if you get started on it today. You can do it… we believe in you!