As Kierkegaard said, “To venture causes anxiety; not to venture is to lose oneself.” I.

I’ve never heard of anyone on their deathbed saying, “I wish I would have spent more time watching TV or reading Facebook posts.

When you try to stop your thinking, it means you are bothered by it. Do not be bothered by anything.” – Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.

And when you are dying, you may have a chance to reflect on your life and the legacy you are leaving behind. You created that legacy during the past day. You are creating that legacy at this very moment. What will you leave behind? What will you create that will outlive you? How many hearts and minds will be touched by your deeds? Use your precious moments wisely. Do what you came here to do. “To.

Yet today I realize that the most important thing in dividing tasks is the psychological effect of making the task bearable. The idea of small tasks always felt too abstract and not at all magical. But today it had a concrete effect on me. Suddenly, the idea of starting a task didn’t seem so heavy. The tasks just need to be small enough so that they feel conquerable. After that, starting is easy.

You are fooled by your mind into believing there is tomorrow, so you may waste today.” ISHIN YOSHIMOTO.

Right now, I am feeling a great deal of fear.” We notice fear. We acknowledge it. We accept it. But we don’t put fear in charge. We don’t let it decide what we do and don’t do. And at some point, we may learn to harness the energy of fear and use it to take action in response to the situation we are facing.

The biggest risk you can take is to do nothing at all, when you know there’s something you need to do.

To awaken each morning is to be born again. To fall asleep each night is to die to the day. Why do we delay doing the good we would like to do? Why do we put off speaking words of kindness, giving encouragement, writing a letter, taking care of ourselves? Why do we delay making decisions, in living our lives? Procrastination is a dreadful and terrible malady. We may say ‘do it now’ but then we wait for the ‘right time.’ There is no need to wait to live your life.” –W. Edward Harris.

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.” WILLIAM BARRETT.