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All too often these days we procrastinate and put things off. Much of what we say can't be done now can, in fact, be done now. I am not saying there is never a time when we can't do something. But we need to as the popular prayer goes: 
"God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other."

If it should be done, then we should be doing it. There is so much that fear trying for fear of failure, but anything we never start we have already failed at.

I encourage you to find at least one thing that needs doing today, and set out and do it. 

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