#497 - Monday Motivation:" While We Are Postponing, Life Speeds By."

Welcome to another short but empowering episode of Monday Motivation, giving you a dose of inspiration as you head into your week.

Today, I share six words Seneca wrote to his friend Lucilius about two thousand years ago: while we are postponing, life speeds by.

Three key takeaways:

• Why postponing rarely feels like postponing - from the inside it looks like good judgement
• How time "speeds by" - not while we wait, but when we look back
• One tiny action for this week - the smallest possible piece of the thing you keep putting off

You don’t need the whole plan today.

Just do one small piece of the thing you’ve been postponing, and notice which side of the line you’re standing on.

I also share details of my free online workshop, Start Before You're Ready, on Tuesday 29 September at 7pm AEST. You can register here.

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TRANSCRIPT:

Happy Monday.

Tomorrow night I'm running a free workshop, and I'll tell you about it properly in a minute. But first I want to give you six words that were written about two thousand years ago, because I think they might be the most useful six words for a Monday that I know.

Seneca wrote them in a letter to a friend of his called Lucilius.

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."

That's it. That's the whole thing.

I love that it's so old. Because it means this isn't a modern problem. It's not phones, it's not being busier than people used to be, it's not the particular season of life you're in right now. Two thousand years ago a man sat down to write to his friend and the thing he wanted to say was, stop waiting, it's going faster than you think.

Nothing has changed. We're all still doing it.

And I want to be really clear that postponing doesn't feel like postponing. It feels completely reasonable from the inside.

You're not avoiding the thing. You're getting ready for the thing. You're waiting for the right moment, for a quieter month, for the kids to be a bit older, for work to settle down, for January.

None of that sounds like postponing. It sounds like good judgement.

That's exactly why Seneca had to write it down. Because nobody catches themselves doing it.

Something I've noticed about the phrase "speeds by" is that it's true in a very specific way.

Time doesn't go fast while you're waiting. Waiting is slow. Waiting is one long Tuesday after another.

It's only when you look back that it's gone. You look up and it's been four years since you first thought about the thing, and you genuinely cannot tell me where those four years went, because they were full, and they were fine, and they're gone.

That's the speeding by. It happens in the rear-view mirror.

So here's what I'd love you to do this week, and it's tiny.

Take the thing you've been postponing. The one that came to mind the moment I said it, because it always does.

And do the smallest possible piece of it today.

Not the whole thing. Not a plan for the whole thing. One small piece, the sort that takes eleven minutes and feels almost too small to count.

Send the message. Make the booking. Write the first bad paragraph. Look up the price. Ask the question you've been not-asking.

Because the moment you do one small piece, you've stopped postponing. And that's actually the whole shift. It's not about scale. It's about which side of the line you're standing on.

Now, tomorrow night.

Tuesday the twenty-ninth, seven o'clock, I'm running a free workshop online. It goes for one hour and it's called Start Before You're Ready.

And it is, very deliberately, the opposite of postponing.

I'll ask you five questions. You'll write, by hand, on real paper. There will be silences that feel too long, and they're meant to, because that's where your answers actually are.

And by the end of the hour you'll have three dreams written down in your own handwriting, and one small thing you're doing within twenty-four hours. Not next month. Before this time on Wednesday.

You don't need a plan. You don't need to know how. And if you're thinking "I don't even know what I want any more" then you're exactly who it's for, because that's where most women are and it's the whole reason the hour exists.

It's free, it's recorded, and there'll be a room full of women doing it at the same time as you.

The link's in the show notes. I would really love you to be there.

So. Seneca, two thousand years ago, writing to his friend.

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."

Have a beautiful week. And I'll see you tomorrow night.