Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.

Only the present hour is in your hands. What has gone is settled and cannot be edited, and what is coming is a reasonable expectation rather than a possession, which means every plan is a plan to use some future present when it arrives. Waiting for better conditions spends the only currency you have on something that may not be delivered.

Look at what today is offering, which is usually smaller and nearer than what you were saving yourself for. Take one piece of it now: the call, the walk, the hour of the work. Tomorrow can have whatever is left.