I want to tell you a story. It was around my ten or eleven years old, at that time China just opened the door, seemed have lots of opportunities that people can get to rich. I was living in a small city. There were some people who everyday I met. They were all labors, their jobs were temp, they relied on carrying goods from one place to another place with their handcarts to maintain their lives. It was a physical job, it was so hard, and their wages were low. They dreamed of changing their lives, they dreamed of getting to rich. So most of nights, when they finished their job, they would get together to discuss what ways they could make lots of money to be rich. One night, they sat around. The topic didn't be changed. One said a good way to make money is to trade dogs, then he said he knew a place where the dogs were cheaper that there, if they could buy dogs from that place then sell to there, the profits they could gain were almost the same as their costs. Most of people admired his opinion, they planned to do that, then they made an agenda, that could be detailed. The argument was exciting. They said they wanted to produce the plan to tomorrow. Actually, at the tomorrow, I just saw all the people they did the same job, no things were be changed. They were all struggling in the heavy physical jobs, they were all struggling that their wages couldn't maintain their daily lives. Why can I remember the story for a long time. We don't need to discuss that that kind of project was practical or impractical, we don't need to doubt that their passion was not be followed, we don't need to argue whether or not that kind of people are foolish. You know, we all hold some unrealistic dreams that don't just have by that kind of people, but by all of us. We are human being, having a dream is our instinct. The key is that can we really did something to achieve our dreams? No one will remember what we said, but they will never forget what we did.
Having a dream is reasonable, to conduct a dream is still reasonable, despite they are unrealistic. To analyse how can we achieve that, to list the pros and cons, to list the possibility, to make a detail to plan that, to put them into our schedule. Maybe, one day the dream will really become true. However, most of people just have their dreams. Not about they don't want to achieve their goals, but they all put their hope to tomorrow. So most of our dreams have gone with the wind. We just regreted that we lost lots of opportunities. That is the problem. We can say everything is possible, but we don't know why everything is possible. 'Just do it', at this moment; 'Just do it', don't be hesitating; 'Just do it' to follow your passion immediately. The intelligent men are who always know what they want to do, what they need to do. 'Don't admire the fish, but to make your nets'. 'Don't wait the rabbit will crash itself into the tree again'. We don't want to be a foolish man to hold our illusion to dream one day I will be successful.
'Just do it ' is to encourage us to do that at this moment; ' Just do it' is that we don't need to wait a perfect moment then we get the start; ' Just do it' is to push us in the process that we do; ' Just do it' is to practice our plan but not to have the perfect plan.
Then, we couldn't be ambitious, we couldn't be eager to want to accomplish something immediately, we couldn't be nervous because we find it's a exciting moment, also we couldn't ignore what the difficult time will meet us. It's a strategy. If we want to achieve our goals we must conquer all obstacles and overcome all difficulties. It's certainly not easy. We don't always focus on how far our goals will become. Persistence and persistence, again and again, we will fail, but we couldn't give up. So when we did that, when we understand that, the future is brilliant.
'Just do it', when we are in the dark; ' Just do it', when we almost couldn't insist; 'Just do it', when we are falling into the trap.
Then, we need to calm our mind, we need to analyse the situation, we need to be smart, or just to take a rest. When the string is tough, we need to relax it, and when it's relaxing we need to tighten it. To keep our mind in a comfortable and suitable situation. That is what Buddhism said we couldn't insist something forever, we couldn't follow our passion forever but we don't know how can we come back.
'Just do it', ask not what our accomplishment is, ask what we did for that.