Maybe you’ve heard it called the deferred life plan, otherwise known as “I’ll be happy when X happens.” Whatever you call it, we hope to inspire the opposite in this edition of Doing What Works. Oh, sure. Delayed gratification is a big part of doing what works, but! There’s a time and a place.

Here are your show notes…

“Those poor people.” That line from Galaxy Quest [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/] must occur to everyone who knows how Darrell and I are living at the moment (in a broken-down RV in the Pennsylvania wilderness). Says Darrell!

“If you’re not having fun you’re not doing it right.” That’s from What Color Is Your Parachute? [https://www.parachutebook.com/] author Dick Bolles.

Do you have something, as Rocky [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075148/] might say, that if you achieved it would make you feel like you’re not just another bum from the neighborhood?

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/12/09/safe-harbor/].