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There’s No Secret Art of Timing— There’s Just Time And What You Choose To Do With It

Carpe diem — “seize the day”

Thomas Oppong
3 min readSep 15, 2021
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Is there a ‘best time’ to launch a side project, improve your relationships, write a post or a book, change your habit, or embrace a new habit?

Perfect timing is an illusion. It’s a procrastination trap.

Once you acknowledge that you can choose to do what you need to do now, your relationship with time will change for the better.

When is there ever a time for anything? What if the time you are waiting for never arrives?

Whenever you want to start something new or change your life, it’s common to feel like the timing is wrong.

For example, you’re looking for a new job or want to ask for a raise and think you should wait until after the holidays. Or, you’re considering learning a new skill and wonder if now is too soon.

It can be challenging to juggle everything that we’ve got going on in our lives. But here’s the thing: there’s never the right or wrong time to do anything.

No secret timing can make everything run smoothly or fall in place.

Napoleon Hill was right, “Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work with

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Thomas Oppong
Thomas Oppong

Written by Thomas Oppong

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