The Perfect Moment Is a Lie, Start Before You Believe You Can

Every day you wait, the fear grows louder. But the truth is simple, courage only appears after you begin.

Stop Waiting for the Perfect Moment to Become Better

The perfect moment, the perfect timing, the perfect day it’s all a myth!
There is never going to be a “perfect” anything. We humans aren’t capable of it.
The only thing we are capable of is perpetual growth, growing a little more each day, until our last. (And even that’s a blessing.)

Yes, I truly believe that people who think this way are the lucky ones.

Let me give you an analogy from my gym.
My best lap on a treadmill is rarely the first one it’s usually the third, sometimes the second.
Why? Because the body needs time to adjust. The heart adapts to the new demand, the muscles respond to the brain’s commands.
Meaning: we always start messy not perfect, not smooth, but clumsy. Yet with time, we improve.

If we keep waiting for the perfect moment, we’ll wait forever and that moment will never come.
I used to wait for that magical moment of perfection before acting.
But it’s just another form of procrastination one we willingly accept.

The Lies We Tell Ourselves

Let’s look at the excuses that are always available to delay action:

• It’s not the perfect moment.
• I’m not ready yet.
• I’ll know when the time is right.
• After this happens, then I’ll start.
• I still need to learn a few more things.

• Let’s wait for the economy to get better.
• Let’s wait for the government to change.
• After summer.
• After winter.
• I already have too much on my plate.
• Maybe during my vacation time.

You can create endless variations of these.
They’re the white lies our brain offers to help us deceive ourselves and others.
They become our alibi for not acting.

But in truth, they’re baseless lies we tell ourselves first then others.

Do you really think these lies will comfort you when you reach a stage where you’re no longer physically or mentally able to chase your dreams?
Won’t they come back to haunt you then?
Won’t they feel like snakes in your sleeves the very ones you fed when you could’ve gone all-out chasing your dreams?Graveyards are full of human remains and of big ideas that never saw daylight.
Don’t take your dreams or goals to your grave.
If you’re reading this, you still have a chance to act.

Go for it!
You don’t need anyone’s permission.

“When God has given you wings, and the sky belongs to no one, why would you need someone’s permission to fly?”

So soar as high as you can.

Waiting Is the Enemy of Growth

People who dream big, plan intentionally, and work diligently to achieve, these are the people who inherit the world.

I’ve delayed many things because I convinced myself and others, that the moment wasn’t perfect, that I wasn’t ready.

You’re never going to be ready. But you still start.

I’m still not entirely confident about posting videos on Instagram
but I’ve been doing it consistently since last December.

The world isn’t going to fall off its axis if you act and look a little clumsy or foolish.
Nobody cares as much as you think it’s the spotlight effect (study done by Thomas Gilovich and Kenneth Savitsky) that keeps us stuck.

The Turning Point

A year ago, when my father passed away, I had the thought that I should start writing.
I prepared everything dedicated pages in my journal, made a WhatsApp group to dump ideas and then… nothing.

Days passed, gently nudging me to start.
I didn’t.
Weeks passed the nudging turned into shaming.

I didn’t.
Months passed the shaming turned into guilt.

Finally, one day, I renamed that WhatsApp group, folded those blank pages in my journal, and wrote on the cover: “Don’t open.”

The idea was still there, faint but alive in the back of my mind.
I kept telling myself: When the time is right… when the day is perfect… after this… then that…
You know how it goes.

Almost a year later, that same thought grew stronger.
One day, while listening to a motivational talk about the power of words, something clicked.
I loved the message, borrowed the core idea, wrote it down on Microsoft Word and, without overthinking, I went to Medium and published it.

Just like that.

No fear, no perfection, no planning.
And you know what?
Nothing bad happened!

All my fears disappeared and took my excuses with them.

It hit me: Was it really that simple to act?
Yes. It is.

Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real.
Excuse: Expressing Extra Caution Under Self-Made Explanation.

So riseabove your fears and excuses.
You have so much to give to the world more than you even realize yet.