By Trent Hamm
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” – Thomas Jefferson
The world is loaded with great little pieces of advice from people who have accomplished great things in their lives. Usually, these quotes point to some specific virtue that a person can have, and often to the same virtues: proactivity, frugality, temperance, focus, goal-orientation, industriousness.
I write about the virtue of such things on The Simple Dollar, often through times in my own life where I see the value of these virtues at work.
The question I have in mind is if these virtues are so worthwhile, why do I (and so many others) so often fail at achieving them?
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