DTH-X-0001
“I keep putting off what matters because I think I have time.”
The belief that you have unlimited time is the most comfortable lie you tell yourself. You don't. No one does. That isn't morbid, it's clarifying. What you keep deferring is telling you something. Listen to it today and act.
Your Practice
Write down the one thing you keep deferring. Underneath it, write: "If I had one year left, would I still wait?" If the answer is no, identify the single smallest step you can take on it today, not someday, and take it before you sleep tonight.
The Architects
“What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?”
Aaron Swartz, Question Swartz habitually asked, as recalled by his partner Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman in her 2013 eulogy and in The Internet's Own Boy (2014)