Are You Making This Fatal Mistake?

Look, here's what I think might help: stop waiting for perfect conditions. Stop hiding behind your elaborate plans and your fear dressed up as practicality. You know that thing you want to do? That dream sitting in your chest, making you ache? Do it badly. Do it scared. Do it while your knees are shaking and your inner critic is screaming. Because here's the truth, people are scared to hear, you will never feel ready. Never.

That voice telling you to wait, to prepare more, to be certain? It's lying. It's fear wearing a very convincing mask. Courage isn't the absence of terror; it's doing the thing anyway, with your heart hammering and your hands trembling. Even people you think are brave are sometimes terrified. They only refuse to let terror make their decisions. So take the first step. Write the first terrible sentence. Make the awkward phone call. Start before you're ready. Because staying small and safe is its own kind of delay.

Yours Truly,

-DandelionPrecious from MANI