A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success.
âNever leave that till tomorrowâ, he said, âWhich you could do today.â
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This is the man who discovered electricity.
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Youâd think more of us would listen to what he had to say.
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I donât know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, Iâd say it had a lot to do with fear.
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Fear of failure. Fear of pain. Fear of rejection.
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Sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if youâre wrong?
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What if you make a mistake you canât undo?
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Whatever it is we're afraid of, one thing holds true: that by the time the pain of not doing the thing gets worse than the fear of doing it.
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It can feel like we're carrying around a giant tumor.
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And you thought I was speaking metaphorically.
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âThe early bird catches the wormâ; âA stitch in time saves nineâ; âHe who hesitates is lostâ.
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We can't pretend we haven't been told.
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We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to âseize the day'.
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Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves.
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We have to make our own mistakes.
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We have to learn our own lessons.
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We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore, until we finally understand for ourselves like Benjamin Franklin meant.
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That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping.
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And that even the biggest failure, even the worst most intractable mistake beats the hell out of never trying.
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wwwDOTgawartDOTde says:
;)))
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wwwDOTgawartDOTde says:
hehehehe
oh dear
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keep the secrets
only if you can this
peoples think you interessting
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JoJo says:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJnVSKTkcE
Basically it says the same thing:)
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