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  "description": "What possible value could there be in *waiting* to be happy? 🤦🏻",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-20T06:00:39.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.gilespcroft.com",
  "tags": [
    "Richard Carlson",
    "next year's",
    "Conquering Procrastination",
    "Not living life, nowIf we spend all our time with our attention on that fabled ‘better tomorrow’, you know what we miss out on? 🤨The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft"
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  "textContent": "Every now and again, my Richard Carlson page-a-day calendar makes me sit up and listen.\n\nLike this one. It seems so obvious—too obvious, even—and then you slow down and realise how right it is:\n\n(You're looking at next year's, now.)\n\nWhat possible value could there be, in _waiting_ to be happy?\n\nWhen all you get, is Now.\n\n💝\n\nGiles\n\np.s. I remember listening to a brilliant audio programme, years ago—Conquering Procrastination, it was called—where this insidious little practice was referred to as ‘procrastinating on living’. 😙👌\n\nSIGN UP FOR THE DAILY REMINDERS newsletter\n\nWant to start __your__ days with helpful, insightful content like this? The Daily Reminder is a quick, lighthearted email that arrives in your inbox, to help keep you grounded in reality, so that you get to __‘Think less, and live more.’__\n\n __“They feel like a moment of stillness in a world of madness.” ~__ Neil, UK\n\n __“One of those small things with big impact. Honestly, just sign up!”__ ~ Paula, UK\n\nGET YOURS NOW\n\n### Related\n\nNot living life, nowIf we spend all our time with our attention on that fabled ‘better tomorrow’, you know what we miss out on? 🤨The Daily RemindersGiles P Croft",
  "title": "Don't wait",
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