Today I had back to back meetings. I sat a test. I drove for 6 hours to another city. Now it’s 1am and I’m exhausted. I don’t feel like writing my blog post, posting on social media or creating any content. I don’t feel like showing up for my goals like I’d planned to.

But here’s the thing about taking action: Your brain will always give you all the reasons why you shouldn’t.

My brain tells me “This is hard. Do we really need to hit this goal? Why not do it next year? Why not extend the deadline? Relax! Take a nap.”

And every day, it tries to justify not taking action today because “what difference will one day make? No one will know.”

It’s so tempting.

But there’s one thing that always stops me from giving in:

Thinking about the greatest people of all time.

Did Michael Jordan think, “I’ve already won 5 championships, why bother with a 6th?”

Did Katherine Johnson think, “Meh. I’m tired of working on this rocket equation. We can go to the moon next year.”

Did Sir Edmund Hilary think, “Ooh, this snow is a bit cold. Everest can wait.”

HELL NO.

They pushed their limits.

They stayed up all night.

They went without.

They did whatever it took.

And here’s why:

Because you don’t become great by passing up opportunities to develop greatness.

Today is one of them.

Don’t pass it up.