Thing 1 and Thing 2

If you're an elementary librarian or you've read Dr. Seuss, you know that Thing 1 and Thing 2 go together. However, here is Thing 2:
A. The easiest thing for me to do is to accept responsibility for my own learning.
B. The most difficult thing is to get beyond the learning and the working to actually working to a specific goal for myself. I get mired in the daily challenges, the problem-solving, the planning for someone else; or I can't get beyond the reading about the creative things I want to do and actually begin doing them.