There are two types of people: those that say they want to do something, then go about doing it, and those that want to do something but procrastinate their way out of doing that thing.
If you’re the latter, then this article is for you. It is important to consider the real reason for procrastinating. Sometimes, it’s laziness, but most of the time, it’s fear.
We are afraid that we will do something and we will not do it well enough, and it will be a failure. Or we are afraid that we will finish it and no one will like it. Or we are afraid of the process of doing the thing.
Well, if there’s one person who understands fear, it is the activist and former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela.
Our motivation quote for today comes from Mandela – the political activist, philanthropist, and revolutionary, who was the first democratically elected leader of South Africa.
He served long prison sentences while fighting for the rights of his people. We cannot assume that he was not afraid through it all, neither can we say that he was not tempted, even once, to give in. But he pushed through his fear, and he fought until the end.
Mandela, who lived a life worth emulating, said: “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. “
