Ready is a feeling that shows up after you start, not before. Stop waiting at the wrong stop.

Confidence is a product of motion, not a permit you get before it. You feel capable a few minutes into doing the thing badly, which means the feeling you are waiting for comes after the start. Waiting for it first keeps you standing somewhere the bus was never going to come.

Take the thing you keep postponing and give it ten ugly minutes today. Open the document, lace the shoes, send the one message. The feeling usually catches up somewhere in the middle.