If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.

Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.