There’s No Such Thing As Feeling Ready

We like the idea of feeling ready. Here’s why we shouldn’t:

  • There is no such thing as feeling ready. Whenever we do finally feel ready, we feel anxious, don’t we? That’s because “ready” means we’ve passed the time to act.
  • There is only feeling unready, and feeling behind. And if we wait to feel ready, we miss the former entirely and instead land dead-center in the latter.

We can act from the former or from the latter–both contain fear. There’s no escaping that.

So which is it to be for you?