all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. — BERTRAND RUSSELL, - Josh Kaufman

If you rely on finding time to do something, it will never be done. If you want to find time, you must make time.

I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. — HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE, PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING JOURNALIST

The best way to invest willpower in support of skill acquisition is to use it to remove these soft barriers to practice. By rearranging your environment to make it as easy as possible to start practicing, you’ll acquire the skill in far less time.