Yo, today's QOD is, the longer you put off what you know you should be doing, the more difficult it will become.

Here we go. Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

I'm your host Sean Croxton and Sean Croxton.com.

We got Earl Nightingale on this show, wrapping up our week. And today, Earl is going to give you some wisdom if you've been procrastinating on something.

You've been putting something off and it's just kind of weighing on you. Like, oh my God, I should do that, but I can't do it.

Or I don't know why I haven't started.

Ed is going to give you some tips on how to get going and how to start making progress step by step.

And of course, little by little.

Earl Nightingale's coming up.

Have ever noticed that the longer you look at something you should be doing,

the more difficult it seems to appear? That the longer you put off something you should do,

the more difficult it is to get started? A good deal of frustration and unhappiness

could be quickly gotten rid of, according to the experts, if people would just do what

they know

they should do. The great newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane once wrote,

Don't exaggerate your own importance, your own size, or your own miseries. You are an ant

in a human ant hill. Be a working ant, not a ridiculous insect, pitying yourself. Strong language, maybe, but there's a lot of sense in it.

A person carrying a heavy weight is all right as long as he keeps going.

The minute he stops, puts the weight on the ground, and sits down to rest.

The weight seems to become heavier, the distance to be traveled greater,

and the work just that much more unpleasant.

Sometimes it must seem to everyone that things have piled up so high there's just no way of digging out,

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