Tips for Trying Times

tip #38:
Abandon Half-Measures

Owing to past neglect, in the face of the plainest warnings, we have now entered upon a period of danger … The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences … We cannot avoid this period; we are in it now.

— Winston Churchill, Churchill Speaks: 1897-1963