
Liz SmithĪ time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be. Henry Fordīegin somewhere you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. Ben Steinįailure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. One day’s work is all that I can permit myself to contemplate. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. When I face the desolate impossibility of writing 500 pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden. You’re heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. Theodore Rooseveltĭon’t worry about being worried. Barbara Sherĭo what you can, with what you have, where you are. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. The beginning is the most important part of the work. In one bold stroke you can transform today. Stop practicing what you’re going to do and just go do it. The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can. Start by doing what’s necessary then do what’s possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible. I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. Rita Bailyĭo not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.
