This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1659. Want to change something? Start now before you're ready

by Jeff Goins of GoinsRider.com and my narrator Justin Mollick. Welcome to Optimal Living Daily OLD

for short, where I narrate the best blogs I can get permission from, covering productivity,

minimalism, personal development, and more. Today's article comes from a brand new author for the show.

Well, not totally brand new because I've narrated him as a guest author from websites

regularly featured here. So the name might sound familiar is Jeff Goins. I'll tell you more about

him right after the reading. So for now, let's get right to our first post from him and start

optimizing your life. Want to change something? Start now before you're ready by Jeff Goins of

GoinsRider.com. When starting something, anything, most of us think we need more than we have.

More information, more permission, more resources. But that's not true. We have everything we need

to begin. Recently I was in Florida and Chicago for a series of speaking and consulting gigs,

thanks for everyone who came out. And on these trips, I ran into a number of extraordinary

individuals whose names you probably wouldn't know, but who are nonetheless changing their corners

of the world for the better. I'm constantly amazed by the caliber of people I encounter while

traveling, like the college administrator trying to elevate the arts in the public consciousness of

his city of 100,000 people, or the young woman who is revitalizing small businesses in her

economically depressed town, or the myriad of artists, entrepreneurs and creatives who are using

their gifts on the internet to make the world a better and more interesting space. Do you want to

know what all these people had in common? It wasn't an Ivy League degree or a certain IQ level.

It wasn't an abundance of wealth or skill. In fact, none of them had all their stuff together.

They each had their idiosyncrasies and pecadillos, their own quirks and hang-ups. They struggled with

something. In a word, they were human. But they all had something else in common. At some point,

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