A couple hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret to his success:
Never leave that to tomorrow which you can do today.
This is the man who discovered electricity.
He think more of us would listen to what he had to say.
I don't know why we put things off but I guess it has a lot to do with fear:
-Fear of Failure
-Fear of Pain
-Fear of Rejection
Sometimes the fear is just the making of a decision.
Because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo?
But the early bird catches the worm.
A stitch in time saves nine.
He who hesitates is lost.
We can't pretend we haven't been told.
We've all heard the prophets,
heard the philosophers,
heard our grandparents warning us about waste of 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 meant.
That knowing..
is better than wondering.
That waking..
is better than sleeping.
And that even the biggest failure, even the worst, most intractable mistake,
beats the hell outta never trying.
3:51 AM 
