I’m so pumped.
I’m excited.
I feel so ready.
Finally, I’m about to start that project I’ve been putting off forever.
I’m focused. Ready. This time, it’s different.
But first… I need to make sure everything’s in place.
I can’t just go in blindly right?
So I start getting things in order. Coming up with a strategy, organizing my tools, watching a few YouTube videos, reading a few articles just to be sure.
I have notes, deadlines, goals, fresh Notion setup, updated Google Sheets, maybe even a new habit tracking app. The full package.
Everything looks clean. I feel productive.
I can see it coming together already.
I’m so close.
Except… I’ve been here before.
Same energy. Same excitement.
Same prep phase that somehow turns into the main event.
And when it’s finally time to start?
I either stall… or start for a bit, then fall off when life gets in the way, or when that motivation just isn’t there anymore.
Then weeks pass. Sometimes months.
Until another wave of energy hits.
And what do I do?
Start getting ready. All. Over. Again.
And I used to wonder, why am I not making progress?
I’d look back and think, “I’ve put so much time and energy into this, why does it feel like I’ve moved an inch?”
But when I really looked at it… most of that time wasn’t spent doing the actual thing.
It was spent getting ready to do the thing.
Learning. Planning. Organizing. Strategizing.
Always in prep mode.
It felt like work, but it wasn’t the kind of work that actually moved me forward.
And that realization really hit hard.
So I started to changed how I do things.
Now, I just come up with a good enough plan.
If I need to learn something, I do a good enough session or sessions.
I get the basics down, and I start.
That’s it.
No deep dives. No perfect system. No endless prep.
And once I’m in it, I tweak as I go.
Learn as I go.
Refine the process while I’m doing it, not before.
It’s messy sometimes. But it’s real movement.
And it’s way better than sitting in that loop forever.
You’ll never feel fully ready.
If you’re waiting to feel 100% prepared, you’ll wait forever.
There’s always going to be one more video to watch, one more resource to save, one more strategy to plan out.
But after a while, you just have to move.
You’re ready enough.
Start with what you’ve got.
Do what you can with what you know and let the rest unfold as you go.
The clarity, the confidence, the momentum?
That comes after you begin. Not before.
So stop overthinking it.
Stop convincing yourself you need more time.
Get in.
Start where you are.
Figure it out on the job.
That’s how it actually happens.
Until the next one. Bye!
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