How many days go by where you did nothing to move toward your big goals? Probably too many.

If you don’t purposefully carve time out every day to progress and improve your time will get lost in the vacuum of our increasingly crowded lives. Before you know it, you’ll be old and withered, wondering where all that time went.

As Harold Hill has said: “You pile up enough tomorrows, and you’ll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays.”

After you’ve gotten yourself organized, made plans, started tracking, and gotten into the habit of prayer/meditation, taking action and hustling will be automatic. It’s good practice to do these kinds of things at the beginning of your day before your willpower depletes.

If you don’t, it simply will not get done. By the end of your day, you’ll be exhausted. There will be a million reasons to just start tomorrow. So your mantra becomes: The worst comes first. Do that thing you’ve been needing to do. Then do it again tomorrow.

If you take just one step toward your big goals every day, you’ll realize those goals weren’t really far away.