The Life-Changing Power of Post-It Notes

Paul Cantor
3 min readOct 23, 2018

I put yellow post-it notes with motivational phrases next to my computer.

They say things like:

“This opportunity only comes once.”

“It doesn’t matter if it’s good, what matters is that it gets done.”

“Right now, someone is outworking you.”

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Paul Cantor

Wrote for the New York Times, New York Magazine, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Vice, Fader, Vibe, XXL, MTV News, many other places.