The clock doesn’t care if you’re ready. It just keeps its promise.
STILLNESS
WHAT THIS MEANS
Time is not against you and it is not on your side; it is simply consistent. The deadline arrives whether the work is done, the season starts whether you trained, the year turns over whether you feel prepared for it. Waiting to feel ready is waiting on a signal that never gets sent.
Take whatever you are hoping to feel ready for and put a date on it this week. Then work backward and assign the first step to a specific day. Readiness usually shows up after you begin, which is inconvenient and also dependable.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
What deadline is coming whether or not you feel prepared?
MORE IN TIME, MORTALITY & LEGACY
- Most regrets people carry into old age are about words: the thing they said, or the thing they never did say.
- When you’re old, most of the stories you’ll love telling will be about times you said yes while scared.
- Chalk art knows the rain is coming. It gets drawn anyway, and somebody walks by smiling before it’s gone.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.