{"id":1706,"date":"2012-08-26T10:46:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T15:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2012-08-26T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T15:47:08","slug":"almost-doing-something-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1706","title":{"rendered":"Almost Doing something is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; Brought to you courtesy of Tom McCarthy, fellow success coach.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<ul>The Greatest Commercial Ever!<\/ul>\n<p> <\/strong> by Tom McCarthy<\/p>\n<p>When I have passengers in my car I almost NEVER have the radio on. I started this habit when my kids were young because I wanted to use the time we were together in the car for meaningful conversations. That said, for some reason, I had the radio on when my son and I were on a recent trip.  I don\u2019t remember any of the songs we listened to, but I do remember a commercial we heard.<\/p>\n<p>The message in this commercial was so powerful. The commercial was for a charitable organization and the theme was \u201cRemember the time you ALMOST volunteered?\u201d They had several examples like; \u201cRemember the time you almost volunteered to help at the soup kitchen?\u201d and \u201cRemember the time you almost visited elderly people in a nursing home?\u201d Then came the kicker;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>ALMOST DOING SOMETHING IS THE SAME THING AS NOT DOING ANYTHING AT ALL!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How True! If you\u2019re like me, I bet there are two or three things a day (important things) that you almost do. The problem is that over time, these things you ALMOST do add up to a life that is ALMOST phenomenal.   But remember, being ALMOST Phenomenal is the same thing as not being phenomenal.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s one important thing you were ALMOST going to do today? Please take a minute and identify something right now. A tough phone call you really need to make? Something special for one of your friends or family members?  Once you identify what it is, in the famous words of NIKE, \u201cJust Do It!\u201d         <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Tom McCarthy<\/p>\n<p>Goes along with my favorite corollary from the movie Star Wars;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>There is no &#8220;try&#8221; > there is only &#8220;DO&#8221; or &#8220;NOT DO&#8221;<\/em> &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Live with Intention,<br \/>\nDr Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; Brought to you courtesy of Tom McCarthy, fellow success coach. The Greatest Commercial Ever! by Tom McCarthy When I have passengers in my car I almost NEVER have the radio on. I started this habit when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=1706\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,254,31],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-postaday2012","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}