Perfectionists love to begin new endeavours, because the moment of starting belongs to the world of limitlessness: for as long as you haven’t done any work on a project, it’s still possible to believe that the end result might match the ideal in your mind.*
Oliver Burkeman

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our souls evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.**
Steven Pressfield

I think most of all first of all imagine something we want to
make or do or be to be without problem, and doable –
It’s how our minds get us to begin, otherwise
we’d never start anything;
Yes, there are some who will say No! before any picture forms,
Whilst others find their early enthusiasm wilting before increasing imagined difficulties,
Yet for those who anticipate resistance within the normal course of possibility,^
They will find a way of adapting and tacking that produces something
superior to what they first imagined.

What must you begin today?

According to the Stoics, the circle of control contains just one thing: YOUR MIND.^^

*Oliver Burkeman’s Meditations for Mortals;
**Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work;
^Though not all resistances are equal: we must be sure to take on the right ones for us and ignore the wrong ones;
^^Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic.