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The time is now

To whom it may concern:

Your situation in the future is influenced by your actions now. Your actions now are influenced by your vision for the future. So while you are here now, think big and do big.

There is no other way around it.

If you believe your situation in the future is influenced by random events, and if you also believe that your actions now are randomly contingent, then you cannot think big, because you do not believe you control your thinking. And you cannot do big, because you are not thinking it.

"Thinking big" is an expression to refer to your ambition. The thinking does not have to indeed be "big" in the physical sense; just big in its impression on you.

Carpe diem,
Jack D

Aside: One way to understand time is to assume it is cyclical. On a macro-scale: The state of affairs in the world today is similar to the situation at a point in time in the past. Similarly, the state of affairs is likely to arise again in the future. On a micro-scale: You have experiences that you almost know you have been through before. Similarly, your experiences are likely to be repeated later.

So what changes about time? It doesn't: Time is what it is, time. What changes is our human response to what happens around us as time passes. And our response is a product of our thinking.

(Thanks Moto, particularly M, S and Z)
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