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Great things are not suddenly done; they are the end of a long series of small things.
Epictetus · Discourses · paraphrase
What it means today

No achievement arrives whole; it is assembled from thousands of small, unglamorous repetitions. The person who does the small thing consistently is the person who does the great thing eventually.

Try this todayPick the smallest possible next step on something big, and do it today.
Today’s questionWhat great thing am I waiting to do, that is really a series of small things I keep avoiding?
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