How a Manhattan Turtle Trampled My Self-Doubt

Are you waiting around for the perfect conditions to bring your project to life? Here’s how a chance meeting with a 6-inch reptile gave me the courage to just do it

Yvonne Vávra
5 min readOct 1, 2021
Hey! Yeah, I’m talking to you. Get off your butt and do it! Photo by Ben Phillips from Pexels

Being stuck feels all kinds of terrible — you know it, you’ve been there. For much too long. So as we’re crawling…

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Yvonne Vávra

Author. Berliner born behind the wall. New Yorker to a fault. I write about how to get on with the business of being human. May contain traces of hope.