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How to beat discouragement

by HARVEY MACKAY
| February 8, 2026 1:00 AM

There’s an old saying, “If we take care of the minutes, the years will take care of themselves.”

One minute doesn’t seem like much. However, never underestimate the cumulative effect of each minute we live. Let’s suppose a minute is worth one penny. You see a penny lying on the street but pass by it because it’s hardly worth the effort to pick it up. But suppose you begin to double that penny each day for a month. At the end of a week, you would have only 64 pennies. I know that’s not much, but at the end of a month, you would have 536,970,912 pennies. Translated into dollars, that’s $5,368,709.12.

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