The title of this article is based on the words of Lao Tzu, who said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”

This is true not just for a long journey, but also for short ones, and journeys, here are not meant to be actual journeys-trips. They refer to goals, tasks and actions. Everything that you do require that you take the first step.

Even drinking water from the tap requires that you walk to the kitchen to open the tap and fill a glass of water. If taking the first step is essential for such a simple act of filling a glass of water, it is of vital importance to achieving any goal.

If you wait for things to happen, probably nothing would happen. You have to take the initiative and do things.

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

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