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Tomorrow will never bring the motivation you need
If you keep pushing your start date until tomorrow, you will never get started. Even a tiny action provides enough flame to derive a change in your life. Don’t think. Just do. The more you think, the less you do.
Doing anything of significance takes time, but you do have to start somewhere. Less talking, more doing. Take one small step and then another. If getting started means getting a simple intention, begin there. From intention comes action. Whatever the first step is, don’t wait. Get started.
– Cyndie Spiegel
What stops us? The author Steven Pressfield calls this force The Resistance. As he puts it in The War of Art, “We don’t tell ourselves, ‘I’m never going to write my symphony.’ Instead, we say, ‘I’m going to write my symphony; I’m just going to start tomorrow.'” Today, not tomorrow is the day that we can start to be good.
– Ryan Holiday
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