I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

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I've been writing books for a long time now and there's a pattern that I've seen emerged

that has taught me something very important about timing.

What I noticed after having several books come out is that often in book publishing, people

will say to you, it's too early, too early, too early.

It's too early to try doing this.

It's too early to contact this person.

It's too early to pursue this opportunity.

We need to wait.

Then you wait and then the answer becomes, oh no, too bad.

It's too late to late to late.

The window of opportunity has closed seemingly in a flash.

Everything goes from too early to late in a millisecond.

Looking back at my life, I realize sometimes I think that about my own age.

I think, oh, I'm too young, too young, too young for something.

But then it's like, oh, I'm too old, too old, too old for something.

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