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PROCRASTINATION
So what if I don't feel like doing it. I can do it no matter how I feel. I don't need 100% motivation to do it. Decision plus Action kills Procrastination. I am ready to do it. I am excited about getting it done. I will act now!
"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." (Thomas Jefferson)
"You may delay, but time will not." (Benjamin Franklin)
"How soon not now becomes never." (Martin Luther)
"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible." (George H. Lonmer)
"Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days...What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"During a very busy life I have often been asked, 'How did you manage to do it all?' The answer is very simple. It is because I did everything promptly." (Richard Tangye)
"When there is a hill to climb, don't think that waiting will make it smaller." (Unknown)
"The beginning is the most important part of the work." (Plato)
"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes." (Rabindranath Tagore)
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." (Walt Disney)
"Stop talking. Start walking." (L.M. Heroux)
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." (Sally Berger)
"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning." (Horace)
"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you're doing the impossible." (Francis of Assisi)
"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." (Calvin Coolidge)
"The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult." (Marquise du Deffand)
"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs." (Vance Havner)
"Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished." (Ausonius)
"The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true: action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day." (Robert J. Mckain)
"Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it." (Mohandas K. Gandhi)
