Some goals take ten years. That’s not a reason to start later. It’s a reason to start soon.

Long timelines argue for starting now, and the point usually gets heard backwards. If something takes a decade, every month of delay simply gets added to the end, so the version of you who starts at twenty-five finishes at thirty-five rather than at thirty. Waiting shortens nothing. It only moves the finish.

You do not have to commit to ten years today. Just do the first week of it: the first lesson, the first application, the first hundred saved. Starting is the one part that can be done immediately, and it is the part that moves the whole schedule.