Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

Time gives and takes according to what you did with it. It carries hope while things are still ahead of you and buries ambitions that were never acted on, and the same passing years correct one person harshly while instructing another usefully. The difference is not in the time. It is in whether you were using the interval or waiting inside it.

Look at an ambition you have held without moving on for more than a year. Either take a real step this month or set it down honestly. Letting it sit is the option that costs the most and feels the least like a decision.