It often seems a good idea to have everything ready and perfect before taking the first step to make your plan a reality. It may appear comfortable to wait for a challenge-free period to start the great idea. It may seem appropriate to wait for a convenient time to commence the training that will help you develop new skills. It may appear reasonable to start the change later, probably the next day, week, month or year. It may seem convincing to wait for all other factors to change before going ahead. Do they all change as people expect?
Many people have their good reasons and make choices based on their situations and circumstance—which some have been able to manage well to achieve their goals. However, in some cases, some people expect things to change before they change and get the comfort of postponing their actions and discover they never get to do anything in the end or miss out on the opportunities that have come their way.
You could decide to wait for the rain to stop before going to the bus stop to board the next bus to your destination. It sounds like a good idea. If the rain does stop at a later time, you may miss your bus, appointment, flight or goal when you decide to go ahead. If it does not, you may end up wasting the whole time doing nothing.
Someone else may decide to get an umbrella so that he does not get wet or rearrange his plans to accommodate something else in that time. If the time you have now is allowed to elapse without doing what you need to do, you may discover that there is always an obstacle that could prevent you from doing what you have planned.
Some people wait till the New Year to begin a new plan. It may look good to have a new goal in the year, but it will not succeed because it is a new year. It will because someone is willing to give it what it takes despite all obstacles. If you can do it now, you can do it in the New Year. If you fail now, the New Year will not make any difference except you change. Instead of postponing the action to the New Year, deal with the challenges facing you now—whatever it is that makes the goal fail, that way you would have conquered the obstacle.
Many postpone their actions because of challenges and obstacles, but it is not time that makes them better—it is you facing them and conquering them.
Some people may say, ‘I will act when things get better’, ‘I will be happy when I become a millionaire’, ‘I will start planning when the pandemic is over’. They can hope that the conditions are encouraging, but they may not, and no one knows when it would. What happens to your life if it takes many months? What happens to your future if it takes many years?
Now is what you have. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is yet to come, it is not a guarantee, but you can define it by what you do now. If you keep doing nothing now, you may have more uncertainties tomorrow and more procrastination—it is a cycle that you can choose to break.
If you chose not to start your company because of the challenges you have today, there would be more challenges in the future, probably different ones or a combination of the old and new. There is no problem-free track that leads to a significant end.
What change do you desire to see, what plans do you have, what do you want to achieve? There may never be a right time to begin; you may be better of facing the challenge now to make progress.
There will always be a challenge that you need to overcome to progress. Leave it not for later because later does not guarantee that the challenge will disappear, but you can decide to conquer the challenge by acting and starting now.
The New Year will not make anything different, but those that want to make a difference act now to see the difference tomorrow.
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