“It’s never about feeling ready, it’s about action right away,” Dritan Hodo. To continue on how we get in our own way and limit ourselves, we need to talk about the importance of taking action.  If we allow ourselves too much time to think in some circumstances we will never get it done.  Like most people, I have complicated emotions surrounding ability and worth and timing.  I was raised on the cusp of a generation that entirely raised itself and those who needed permission to do anything.  I often found myself wanting to do more, craving more, knowing I could do more and then stopping myself because it wasn’t the right time, someone didn’t give me permission.  The biggest disservice of that pattern was that I dimmed my connection to instinct and belief that I could trust I could make it through or at the very least trust that I could figure it out.  But we can change that.  We can learn to take the leap again and that happens by simply doing….anything.  Pick something and DO it.  We can’t think our way into living, there will always come a point where we have to take action.

We live in a complicated world where rules dictate the truth rather than the truth itself prevailing and telling the story.  Truth is misconstrued as insult and offense and we have not only learned to make tailoring the truth a necessity, but how to tailor the facts of the situation to make it look like that truth.  I’m not sure when the truth became so unpalatable to people but it has caused a major issue when it comes to confidence in our own ability to navigate the world.  If we spend more time worrying about how we are perceived and received by others, that is less time we have to figure out our own alignment and purpose and then create something of value aligned with who we are.  In that regard, we will never feel ready because we focus more on being accepted by the masses and we simply can’t make everyone happy.  That isn’t possible.  Even the most delicious of ice cream causes a stomach ache in those with an allergy.  Point being that we can be nearly perfect to nearly everyone and there will still be SOMEONE with an issue. That is human nature.  We inhibit our steps enough with issues of confidence, so much so that we have to learn the last thing that should stop us is someone else telling us what we can and can’t do when we know our own capabilities.

When we forget all of that and understand that our time here is limited and it is worth taking the chance to create something of value, we then move onto the next lesson: done is better than perfect.  No one ever said things have to be perfect to be worthy of sharing.  It’s enough to do what calls to us and what makes sense to us… and sometimes we have to take where we are at and simply use it as a block to the next step.  We have to put aside the worry of making it perfect or having all of our ducks in a row before taking a step.  Would that be ideal in all situations?  Sure, it might be.  But what happens if we need to learn something else and there might be another way to do something that we didn’t know about unless we would have taken the leap when we did.  If we wait for everything to be perfect before moving we will remain in the same place.  We take action by putting one foot in front of the other and then we take the next step, and the next step after that until we are walking confidently in the direction we are meant to follow.  Soon we can run and after that we can fly.  We will never learn unless we start taking steps toward the life we want.