The First Step Isn’t the Problem, the 356,751st One Is

Solving this midway motivation puzzle

Laura Vanderkam
Forge
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4 min readMar 8, 2022

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New Year’s resolutions take many forms. This year, one of mine was to read through all the works of Shakespeare. I decided to undertake this project after reading War and Peace last year at a pace of one chapter per day. Tolstoy’s epic happens to unfurl over 361 short chapters, so one chapter a day was a…

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Laura Vanderkam
Forge
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Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management books including Off the Clock and 168 Hours. She blogs at LauraVanderkam.com.