The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
After a storm comes a calm.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Who seeks shall find.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.