Leaping for the dream is brave. Leaping with savings and a plan is brave and smart. Be both.

Bravery gets romanticised as the absence of preparation, which mostly produces short attempts that end for avoidable reasons. Planning is not the opposite of nerve; it is what lets the nerve last long enough to matter. The people who make jumps that work usually spent a boring year building the runway.

Before you go, work out how many months you can fund and what the first three steps are. Keep the leap and add the arithmetic. If the numbers say wait six months, waiting six months is not cowardice.