“Do not allow idleness to deceive you; for what you give him today he steals tomorrow from you.”

“Do not allow idleness to deceive you; for what you give him today he steals tomorrow from you.”

—Alfred Crowquill, 17th Century British author

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How much idleness have you embraced over the past 15 months? Where did you — perhaps through no fault of your own — have your life turned upside down, stopping many of the professional and personal activities that kept you progressing forward?

Where have you observed the impact of unemployment, health challenges, and simply our need to be physically distant, as thieves who seem to keep stealing our todays and tomorrows?

EXERCISE:

Where and how have you rebounded into significant action in your personal and professional pursuits? How can you keep out the thieves of excessive idleness and low effort to never misuse a single moment of your precious life?