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Picasso on Procrastination: How to Add a Sense of Urgency to Your Day
I was listening to Brendon Burchard’s High Performance Habits and there was a quote by Pablo Picasso that caught my attention:
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
— Pablo Picasso
It seemed like the perfect quote to put on the cover of my new bullet journal, which I happened to be working on as I listened to the audio book.
It wasn’t until after I had written the quote down that I stopped to think about what I am not willing to die having left undone. There are so many things! Suddenly, I was overcome with an intense feeling of urgency.
I have so many books to write and paintings to paint! There are poems and songs to be written, crafts to design, and trees to plant. There are places I want to go and things I want to do. How terrible it would be to die without ever seeing the Grand Canyon or visiting Yellowstone National Park?
I have so much to do! I can’t possibly get it all done in one day. It will take years to cross all of these things off my to-do list, so how can I not get to work and try to do all I can every day?
