Someday Isn't on a Calendar

by Aubrey Patterson

When scheduling your priorities into your calendar, how often do you place a time block on Someday?

It's a silly question, right?

Someday doesn't exist on the calendar.

There are seven days in a week and Someday isn’t one of them, right?

Planning to do something someday is saying that what we want is just a pipe dream.  A lack of risk and effort makes someday a frequently used excuse that doesn't allow us to take advantage of a sudden opportunity.

Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin. - Victor Kiam

Someday doesn't exist on any calendar and never will. If we keep loading everything into this phantom day, nothing will come of our dreams and we'll look back one day upon a devastating pile of regrets. 

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it.
You have to go down the chute. - Tina Fey

Many leaders spend too much time getting ready to get ready and don't move from planning to doing. They leave their potential at the top of that waterslide.

Time block your dreams

Someday might just be another way to say, I wish I had the time to do my work and pounce on a new opportunity or dream.

We over-exaggerate yesterday, we overestimate tomorrow, and we underestimate today. - John Maxwell

It's possible to be a human doing and a human being. Most are familiar with this axiom. Taking action and enjoying the moment are important, of course. 

But when we make room in our calendars for possibility, we make our dreaming feels more acceptable and even productive.

Making space in our days for emergent ideas and taking action on them is the antithesis of putting an exciting new opportunity in a 'Someday' file.

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