Maybe you’ve heard this quote from C.S. Lewis (the Narnia guy) before, but I hadn’t.
I just read it as a chapter intro in Paul Millerd’s The Pathless Path (which I’m loving and almost finished 🙂 and I’ve been thinking about it all day.
It is so spot-on (and inspiring) that I couldn’t not share it.
It’s this (my bolding):
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.
The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable.
Favourable conditions never come.
It makes me think of one of my favourite book titles ever, from Seth Godin, What To Do When It’s Your Turn (and it’s always your turn).
And also of The Waiting Place – that creepy interlude in the middle of Dr. Seuss’ Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
I feel this is a reminder I need constantly, as my mind looks for reasons why it’s not quite, not just yet, time to start.
And this one really works because you can have this little self-convo:
“Are conditions favourable?” (they never will be)
“No.”
“Great, then it must be time to start!”
Always your turn(er),
James
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