Put your foot on the track
STOP PREPARING TO DO, DO TO PREPARE.
Today's culture of extensive preparation, and perfect launching has killed the possibility of more projects seeing the light of day, than the lack of capacity to execute that project. Many people spend their lives in the dressing room, trying out different outfits in front of the mirror, reading manuals on how to walk, but never actually stepping onto the stage to show what they are made up of. They prepare to live, but forget to actually live.
You cannot truly prepare for something without doing it. When preparation becomes the end of your efforts, you haven't really prepared, you have only found a sophisticated means to procrastinate. There will always be safety for a ship that is readied for sail, but never leaves the harbour. The ship was never built for the harbour, it was built for the seas. You will never know the true capacity of a ship if it never navigates the turbulence, the storms, and the danger that dwells in the horizon.
Real preparation happens in the doing. You can read a thousand books on how to do a thing, but if you never get into the act of doing that thing, you will never know what it feels like to do it. Doing is the most potent form of preparation, and any preparation without action is just a charade. Action generates feedback, and turns abstract knowledge into embodied wisdom.
It is high time you ditch the preparation, and start acting. The path becomes clearer when you are on the track, your first step may be shaky, but your foot becomes firmer on the ground with more steps. The goal is not a flawless beginning, the goal is to start, and to keep going. Do not fear failure, fear quitting; do not fear falling, but not rising up after a fall. The courage to begin before you feel ready is the only readiness that truly matters. Stop preparing to do, do to prepare.
To a better you, Kamikun John.
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