Tutor: What is Not Started Today…

…Is Never Finished Tomorrow

Are you as sentimental as I am at the beginning of a new school year? Even as an educator who is busy all summer long, every new academic cycle feels like a beginning.

Last year, I likened our noble profession to farming. Yes, teaching truly is a profession of hope. But seeds, whether of grain or of wisdom, are not sown simply as a gesture of desperate optimism. We sow seeds because we wish one day to enjoy its harvest. 

Farming and teaching and selling and every other act and profession all operate from the same first principle: What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. 

If you don’t start working with a new crop of students, you won’t have those amazing results and glowing referrals to count on later.

If you don’t plan that next promotion or joint venture or piece of content, you might not even have any new students.

Nothing good happens tomorrow without deliberate action today. Maybe you don’t want to be reminded of this truth if, like me, you didn’t have time to take a break to prepare for what this auspicious new turn of the wheel requires. Press on. Fatigue won’t sustain us when the time comes to reap what has been sown, only the bounty of what we begin right now.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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