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Do you too suffer from paralysis by analysis? Well, join the club. Let's talk about decision making and bell-bottoms. Bell-bottoms? Seriously, not a typo. The Old Sailor is intended by the author as a particularly humorous poem about an old sailor so obsessed with determining what may be his best survival activity to embark upon that he ends up doing nothing at all but fretting over his circumstance. Aside from being delightfully funny and artfully illustrated, the author hopes readers will be offered a profound commentary on a very common problem in this day-and-age. We want what is best for ourselves, in our personal and professional lives, and so we dream, but hesitate to pursue a course of action that we know will end up being good for us because...well, there just might be a better alternative. Or, because, we convince ourselves we are incapable of achieving our, what seem to be, lofty ambitions. Thus, we are cloud dwellers without our feet on the ground. And so, we live our lives in a state of perpetual hesitation. We think, but we do not do. Or we start but we do not finish, because we imagine a shinier opportunity over the horizon after the luster of the project we have undertaken wears off. And we think (ah, there's the trouble: we think - and too much!) that, maybe if we wait, the best thing will just come rolling along and land right in front of us. The Old Sailor is not intended to knock thinking, long-term planning or even dreaming. On the contrary, it seeks to emphasize a one-step-at-a-time approach is the most effective way to realize one's goals. So, in its conclusion, the author suggests that readers should worry less about finding that elusive best thing, and just do one thing at a time. That is, to not make excuses, but to get started with step one. That is the surest way to elevate any situation you may find yourself in from bad to good and, possibly, great. After all, it is that which is lying right in front of you that will allow you to accomplish your goals.

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