2013 TKR: Quick Quotes about starting now

Quick Quotes about starting now
Self-help--Thinkerer

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• The reason quotes stick around is that they fit lots of things.  
• So look them over.  
• You may find one that fits you.  
• Or somebody you know.

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• If not now, when?
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. 
• It won't get any easier. 
• Is there a different way to do this job? Want to try it? 
• The longest journey begins with a single step. 
• Put off the job. Make a list of your resources instead. 

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• You hate it. You can’t avoid it. Do it now or it will ruin your day. 
• The key to effective procrastinating is to start early. 
• Start by collecting information. 
• What do you already know about this job? 
• Collect information about how other people do the job.

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• Ask other people how they feel about doing a job like this. 
• What would other people think is the hardest part of this job? 
• Make a plan in your head of how you will do the job. 
• Break the job plan into joblets and do the first joblet. 
• The best way to do many things is to do one thing at a time. 
• The one good thing about doing something you hate is you get it off your checklist. 

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• A long journey is made of short steps. 
• A big job is made of many joblets. 
• The best way to do a big job is to do one part at a time. 
• The longest journey starts with knowing where you want to go. 
• It all starts with you. 

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• Do you know what the other people want? 
• Do you know what you want? 
• Have you started using the power of yet? 
• Write your next few joblets on sticky notes. Stick them on your computer monitor. 
• If it's not in your schedule it's not in your plans.

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• In the long run, it is easier to do it than to keep explaining why you have not done it.
• Always set a time to deliver and tell the other person.
• The best way to start is with your eyes open and your mouth closed.
• Your future just started. What are you doing about it now?
• What are your options now? 

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• Your problem now is a door to your future. If you open it.
• What do you need to know now? How can you start finding out now?
• Who do you need on your head team now?
• What do you want to do? Fix or complain?
• Are you choosing now or have you chosen?
• What cues are you noticing now? 

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• What is your biggest worry now. What are you planning to do about it? 
• You are planning for your future now. Whether you know it or not.
• What do you focus on now? What do you want to focus on now?
• What joblet are you doing now? 
• Waiting is a choice. Whether you intend to choose it or not

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• Do it now! There may be a rule against it tomorrow. 
• The way to have big problems is to wait for the little ones to grow up. 
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started. 
• Warning! Dates on calendar are closer than they appear. 
• What other goal could you be after now? 
• What were you thinking about just now?

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• How could you change what you are doing now?
• What was the last idea you wrote down?
• What you are doing now fits into a plan. Do you know the plan? 
• Do you believe what you are telling yourself right now?
• Don't talk about what you were. Talk about what you are becoming.

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• Could you have made a better plan for what you are doing right now? 
• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth knowing why you are doing it. 
• Do you enjoy what you are doing right now?
• Everything is hard till you know how. 
• If you want motivation, make your own choice. 

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• You want your choice in the present to suit your needs in the future. 
• You can't be hopeless if you can choose. 
• Enough tomorrows will give you a collection of empty yesterdays. –Professor Harold Hill
• Hoping and wishing are excuses for waiting. 
• Mark Cuban: Sometimes the best deal is the one you don't do. 
• The key that works will always be the last one you try

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• What should you be doing right now? Who gave you that should?
• My best work is what I’m doing now. 
• The secret to getting there is to know where you're going. 
• Which of your strengths best fits the now?
• Children focus on what they can’t do. Adults focus on what they can do. 

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• Feel the power of yet. As in “I don't know how to do this yet.”
• What is your most important quest question right now?
• If you start by complaining, you are just delaying the game
• Everything starts with what is.
• You can't change the past. You can change your future. So which do you focus on? 

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• You will choose today. Even if you only choose to wait
• Always set a time to deliver and tell the other person.
• Always get the delivery time from other people.
• Perfection is then. Imperfection is now. To live now, live with imperfection.
• It doesn't matter where you start. What matters is when you start

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