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What does it mean?
The future is created by present actions, emphasizing immediacy over delay.
In plain terms
You start building the future today.
What can you take from it?
Action today determines the future, not tomorrow.

Where it applies

  • project management
  • personal goals
  • civic engagement

Putting it to work

  • goal setting
  • time management

Questions to consider

  • What will you do today for tomorrow?
  • Why do we delay action?

Another view

Sometimes waiting is necessary before action is effective.

More from John Paul II (Pope)

  1. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road the faster it rises toward ever wider horizons.

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  2. Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.

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  3. Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

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