The longer you wait to jump, the higher the diving board gets.

Waiting does not keep a scary thing the same size. Every hour you spend not doing it, your mind adds detail: the ways it could go wrong, the people watching, how bad the landing will be. The fear grows because nothing is there to correct it. Meanwhile the actual thing has not changed at all.

Take what you have been putting off and shrink the gap instead of the fear. Send the message today rather than after you have found the right words. The version you do quickly is almost always easier than the version you rehearse for a month.