A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin
shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that
till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This
is the man who discovered electricity. You
think more people would listen to what he had
to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if
I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to
do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection,
sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong?
What if you're making a mistake you can't undo?
The early bird catches the worm.
A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we
hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard
our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us
to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make
our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons.
We have to sweep today's
possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally
understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is
better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the
biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.
P.s .
Book of the week: Eat that
frog by Brian Tracy
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