Life Is Short
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”
Life is too short to not be pursuing the best opportunity you know of.
It's probably hard. It's most likely scary. And it's something that you might not feel ready to do.
But as author James Clear encourages, "Today might be the best chance you have to take action. The longer you wait, the more deeply embedded you get in your current lifestyle. Your habits solidify. Your beliefs harden. You get comfortable. It will never be easy, but it may also never be easier than it is right now."
It's like the Tin Man before Dorothy stumbles upon him in the forest. He can't walk, he can barely talk and he's frozen in time.
Dorothy befriends the Tin Woodman and uses his oil can to release him from the grips of a rusty past.
Your magic oil? Having a bias to action.
Do you really need to think more, or is it simply a matter of doing the work?
Let an old Indian proverb serve as a reminder to those of you who wait: "Never postpone a good deed which you can do now, because death does not choose whether you have or haven’t done the things you should have done. Death waits for nobody and nothing. It has neither enemies, nor friends."
Looking for your first steps? Check out a piece I wrote called Everything Is Figureoutable.
Why do we put off decisions that could give us a better future? I've been at that crossroads many times in my life. Whether it was a decision to start my own business, launch a podcast or even ask my partner to marry me. I knew all three of these decisions would give me a better life. But in the back of my head, all I could think about is what if I ended up being a colossal failure?