Success Begins Before You Feel Ready

Three habits that are holding you back from the next stage of your life.

Do you remember the day when you passed your drives exam received your license? How did you feel? Excited and probably a little nervous. Finally you can drive on your own. You (finally) have it: freedom!

But then it rains. Or it freezes. Or it snows. Now, how ready do you feel?

The lesson you learn is that it’s good to be prepared: ask questions, learn from an experienced driver, drive with someone else in a variety of road conditions, study and be prepared, be cautious at first. One of the most important lessons that you learn is that if you wait until you feel ready for every situation, you will never drive the car.

Think about a few other examples: You graduate from University, ready to face the world, but inside you are terrified because there are so many things you don’t know. You begin a new job and there is so much that you don’t know and you wonder if you ever will figure out how to do it all. You are a parent, of a teenager.

These are just a few examples how in many areas of your life, you begin before you feel ready.

A principle of growth is that no matter where you begin, you will never feel completely ready. And if you do feel completely ready, you are probably headed for a crash because overconfidence is the enemy of successful change.

Some planning and research is good. But too much planning can set you up to feel that your next step is HUGE (too HUGE to begin…). Most change consists of a thousand small decisions strung together. How do you know if you are planning too much? You are thinking, “All I need is (fill in the blank) before I begin.” And then (fill in the blank) happens, but then you find yourself adding one more blank. And another. And another.

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