The White Elephant in the Room

Of all that is considered Alberto’s Legacy, the gift with the most profound impact on me is the maxim he lived by:

Do the thing you are most dreading. And do it now.

He took this idea out of the ether and applied it to his daily life.

As in, don’t procrastinate or bury your head in the sand about your finances, deadlines, promises or goals.

Write To-Do Lists often.

Complete them swiftly.

As a result, the man lived fearlessly. Presently.

Lived each day as if it really was his last.

His approach does not come naturally to me.

In fact, I often resented his scolding when he asked where I was with X project or Y goal or Z task.

But since he’s been gone, his mantra has begun to organically root itself in my world.

After all, what is there to dread?

What the everloving fuck could daunt me more than pall bearing my husband at 34 years old?

Do it now.

Doing it now is becoming my clear and present answer to everything.

Today, it buoys me out of bed to write a To-Do List on the bathroom mirror with a dry-erase pen.

Lines full of things that would’ve daunted me six months ago, a year ago, five years ago.

Things I’d usually put off until the eleventh hour.

Do the thing you are most dreading. And do it now.