The Best Time To Start Is Now

Procrastination is full of excuses.  

I love new beginnings and I always set the start date for further down the road.

"I will begin my New Year's resolution  on the first of the year..."
"I will begin on the first of the month..."
"I'll start at a holy time of year, a special sacred festival to mark a new beginning...."
"I'll do 40 days...that is a number with significant impact for change..."
"I'll begin after the weekend...on Monday"
"Next month is birthday month and that will be too tempting so I'll start after that..."
"I'll start when there is less stress, less distraction, less going on...."
"I'll start tomorrow...."

 I'll start today, in the middle of the day, no special time... 

just right now.

For A New Beginning

by John O'Donohue

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,

Where your thoughts never think to wander,

The beginning has been quietly forming,

Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

For a long time it has watched your desire,

Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,

Noticing how you willed yourself on,

Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

It watched you play with the seduction of safety

And the gray promises that sameness whispers,

Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,

Wondered would you always live like this.

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,

And out you stepped onto new ground,

Your eyes young again with energy and dream,

A path of plenitude opening before you.

Though your destination is not yet clear

You can trust the promise of this opening;

Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning

That is at one with your life's desire.

Awaken your spirit to adventure;

Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;

Soon you will be home in a new rhythm,

For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

For A New Beginning is by John O'Donohue-Irish philosopher, poet, priest and 

the poem is from To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings