This morning, your alarm went off.
And without thinking…
you hit snooze.
Not because you were exhausted.
Not because you needed the rest.
But because delaying felt harmless.
Just five more minutes.
You’ve done it a thousand times.
It feels small. Almost invisible.
But here’s the thing I noticed:
That tiny delay didn’t start this morning.
It’s the same move you make everywhere else.
You tell yourself:
“I’ll start later.”
“I’ll get to it after today.”
“I’ll do it once I feel more ready.”
And none of those moments feel dramatic enough to matter.
Until you zoom out.
Because momentum doesn’t disappear all at once.
It erodes quietly, one snooze at a time.
Not starting when you said you would teaches your brain something dangerous:
That future-you will always clean it up.
At some point, that pattern becomes your default setting.
You don’t feel stuck because you lack motivation.
You feel stuck because you’ve trained yourself to delay your own momentum.
Here’s what most people miss:
Progress isn’t lost in big failures.
It’s lost in small postponements that feel reasonable in the moment.
Every time you delay a decision, your brain learns that urgency is optional.
And optional urgency never builds momentum.
That’s why people stay on the same level for years — not because they don’t want change, but because they keep pressing pause instead of start.
Overthinking is like a paused game.
Momentum only moves when something actually happens.
So here’s the question I want you to sit with today:
Where are you postponing your own momentum — and calling it patience?
– Maxim
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