Fear’s excuses come with no expiration date. Check whether your reason for waiting will still hold up next spring.

Reasons for waiting are slippery because they never run out on their own. Not ready yet, not the right time, after this season: those sentences work as well next April as they do today, and that is how a year disappears. A real constraint has an end you can name. A borrowed excuse does not.

Pick the thing you keep postponing and write down what has to be true before you start. Put a date beside it. If no date fits, the reason is fear wearing a calendar.