Productivity

My mantra in life has always been to take the first step,” he says.

Learning to finish is a skill in itself...being able to push through the boring, tedious, difficult (yet necessary) parts to a satisfactory conclusion without quitting.

Starting is easy. Everybody does that. Finishing is hard...it is an acquired skill but one definitely worth learning.

Celine Nguyen • Oblique Strategies for Starting a New Project

"A man is the sum of his projects" This has been my motto for the past year. it doesn't matter if you're building rockets to go to mars or building model trains in the basement. man is happiest when fully engaged in a project.... See more

Shaan Puri x.com

Knowing is not enough. Knowing too much can encourage us to procrastinate. There's a certain point when continuing to know at the expense of doing allows the mess to grow further

Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess

The Imperfectionist: How to get out of a rut

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When you wait, you lose momentum. And momentum is incredibly powerful because when you’re inspired, you act—and you do it with enthusiasm.

Erifili Gounari • literally just do things

Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things:

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”

"Each day, spend some time on two things:

working toward something that will pay off years from now
appreciating something that is happening right now"

-James Clear

A lion is fully capable of capturing, killing, and eating a field mouse.

But it turns out that the energy required to do so exceeds the caloric content of the mouse itself. So a lion that spent its day hunting and eating field mice would slowly starve to death.

A lion can’t live on field mice. A lion needs antelope. Antelope are big animals. They