The secret of getting ahead is getting started. — Mark Twain

In my bike races the secret is also never stop. Don't stop even to pee.

“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you go to study management and take an MBA because it works 20 years ago and is safe .......................

 There are many ways to skin a cat. Einstein was a disaster in normal schooling. so what. Their parents tried something untested. 

“My parents were so worried that they consulted a doctor,” recounted Einstein’s sister, Maja Einstein. She was referring to how slow was Einstein in learning how to talk. History has it that Einstein began using words after the age of 2. His slow development earned him a name; his family in fact called him “the dopey one,” others in his family dubbed him as “almost backwards.” 

The feel good society movement is the idea that if you say to your kids that they are a winner because they eat the cereals they will see themselves as winners. During the day you say that you are a champion in this ant that. I guess all society is in this right now including the armed forces.

“We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills.

Prof Seligman

“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu

Some  people, myself included  let things drag to long, relations that are not going anywhere tax situations that are not going in the right direction. Until now when finally act I never ever felt sorry for the change . I should act faster in retrospective. I let things drag too long. To be able to act I need to have less stuff.

Just do It is a great advice.