Life Doesn’t Start Tomorrow

Julien Smith
1 min readFeb 8, 2014

There isn’t a single thing in this world that’s made better by starting tomorrow.

Everything you care about, everything you are about, needs to begin today or it may never happen.

If you don’t want to do it now, you clearly don’t want it bad enough.

Momentum comes from pushing, not from planning. Confidence comes from scars and risk, not from indecision.

Question: What is a five-minute action you can take today that will make tomorrow better? I don’t care if it’s cleaning your house or writing one paragraph. You’re going to do it now.

Answer: Drop everything right now, act on that for five minutes, and then come back, leave a note, and tell me what you did.

I am like your conscience, except I don’t accept bullshit. So I expect you to comment here today, or you clearly aren’t actually reading.

Do it now. Yes, right now.

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Julien Smith
Julien Smith

Written by Julien Smith

Co-founder and CEO, @tryPractice, @Breather. NYT bestselling author. Also the lovechild of Tony Hawk and Topher Grace. http://practice.do

Responses (6)

Hey, I found your text inspiring and made a quick spanish adaption for my blog. I hope you don’t mind. Here’s the link: http://blog.alluxi.mx/la-vida-no-empieza-manana/

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Inspiring! Thank you!

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Set up my DailyMem - just got Mem.ai yesterday. Jumping in with both feet. Thanks for the inspiration! I know this is an old post, but relevant now and every day.

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