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“Begin anywhere.”
In track and field, there’s a clearly defined “start” or line that tells runners where to begin the race. They can’t just begin anywhere. But in life, you can. Whatever life changes you want to make, this quote, by music composer John Cage, is a simple one to remember when…
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“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”
Sometimes the future can be scary rather than exciting. Where you see yourself in five years, ten years, or maybe more might seem drastically different from where you are currently. However, what you envision for the future isn’t something that should be expected to happen overnight. Luckily, you have time–most…
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“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.”
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.”
Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent
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“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.”
It’s human nature to come up with every excuse in the book before we finally start something. And a very common excuse we get ourselves to believe is that it’s just not the right time to begin. Sounds like a logical reason. But there’s a difference between the condition being…
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“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”
This quote, by William Shakespeare, is from the play, The Merry Wives of Windsor. It’s the antithesis of procrastination because it encourages us to be much earlier than even a minute too late. When we’re too late at something, even if it’s just by a minute, there may be no…
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“Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”
Waiting for the perfect time is something we tend to do both consciously and subconsciously. But more often, the “perfect time” never comes. Because more often, there’s no such thing. It’s just something we made up in our head. This quote, by Napoleon Hill, reminds us to not wait but…
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“Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow, so give it everything you’ve got.”
It’s easy to take each day for granted and forget life is fragile. This quote, by Tim Cook, reminds us to do our best each day–to give it everything we got. Yes, some days we just don’t have the energy to give it everything we got on everything we do.…
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“One day or day one. You decide.”
Each day, you can either say “one day” or you can say today is “day one”–the start of a new adventure. This anonymous quote reminds us that the choice is ours to make today a day we begin what we’ve been putting off or to make it a day we…
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“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.”
It’s natural to daydream as we envision the future. Of course, everything is perfect. We’re more in shape, we’ve accomplished all our goals, we’re more grounded and at peace, we’re content, all our relationships are thriving–the list goes on. But why cant that future be now? That’s what this quote…
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“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
This quote is by the legendary painter, Pablo Picasso. It serves as a great reflection on the things we choose to put off, or procrastinate. Yes, there are things we can’t possibly get done in one day. Even if we work on them all day, we may need more time;…
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“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”
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“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”
Sometimes motivation is hard to come by. The drive and energy that inspires us to action are completely gone. So, we’re left with fatigue, a dull spirit, and a whole lot of procrastination. We’re more prone to think of our goals as something we’ll get to in the future, instead…
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“Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”
“Let your past make you better, not bitter.”
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
