The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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.