It’s Time to Start That Thing You’ve Been Putting Off. Stop Wasting Time.

Lessons in starting that thing you keep putting off until tomorrow

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In the blink of an eye, I went from 23 to 27 years old.

I’m serious. It’s felt like I flicked a switch and boom, I’m 4 years into the future. The world has jumped ahead 4 years and I’ve barely held on. My entire life (well okay, since 14 years old) I’ve wanted to build something of my own and up until 2 years ago, I did virtually nothing about it. I was stuck in the same excuses.

I’m not sure if it was the pandemic, something in the water or moving house but over the last 2 years, I’ve forced myself to develop an action bias. And here’s what I’ve learnt.

Life won’t wait for you to find the right time

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt

I was waiting for years until I took action. Waiting for the ‘right’ thing. For me to be wildly passionate about something. For me to find something that stole my attention.

It doesn’t care, your life I mean, I know that’s hard to hear but it’s true. It doesn’t care whether you’ve got a baby on the way, if you’re in debt, whether you are waiting on a little…