Do it now!
Where there is a will, there is always a way.
Where there is no will, there are only excuses.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Whatever you really want to do, do it now. No need to postpone. Postponing is just another excuse to let your fears get the better of you - While keeping the “illusion” that you are not putting things off, just “waiting” for a better moment. Right? Wrong! 

Guess what? Most likely that forever elusive “better moment” will just keep on shifting further and further away, in some idealized version of your future, one where you will be possibly braver and wiser, and which exists only in your dreaming mind. 

All the while, you play “safe”, sticking with your only too familiar fears, while keeping your “dreamed” life “on hold”.

But it is time to wake up!

Don’t dream your life. Live your dream.

Because looking back you might realize what, deep down, you must have known all along: That the best (and only sure!) moment you have is always the present - Because the past (for better or worse!) is forever gone, and the future (you idealize so much!) might _never_ come.

That is why it is called “present”: It is your (most valuable) gift!
Because everything else (money, health, love!) might come and go.
But time _only_ goes.

There is a very wise saying that: 

• As a kid, you have time and energy, but no money. 
• As an adult, you have energy and money, but no time. 
• When you are old, you have both time and money but no energy.

What is the conclusion here? Is the “trick” trying to get all three at once? 

Well, there is not such a thing as a “perfect reality”, where nothing is ever missing, or at least “suboptimal”. Flaws and evolution are what drives life. So:

The trick is _not_ trying to get everything “right”.
It is by doing _right_ with what you have! 

There is no point in putting your own adventure, or dreamed life off. Because by the time most people realize they have enough money, they’ve lost their time and their health! 

And the only thing you have for sure is _Now.

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong.
And start being excited about what could go right.

Remember:

“Fear” and “excitement” are just slipped sides of the _same_ coin.

It is what you focus on, that makes all the difference. And if you never try, you will never know, because:

If new things bring new “risks”, they also bring new “awards”. 

After all, as one of my favorite sayings goes:

Magic happens when your faith is bigger than your fear.

It is only by facing your fears - and instead of turning away, by giving them a good square look - that you can see what is holding you back. Except that now, instead of cowing, you can decide to break free by standing up to them.

Break free! Turn your Fear into Excitement.

I have a few examples of my own, where I have been clearly waiting way too long to act on fears that have been holding me back, with me just hanging on a “logical excuse” after another, rationally justifying why I should do nothing - and keep on suffering for the sake of avoiding “unknown” ever-present “risks”. As it turned out, I should have been acknowledging the “awards” for putting an end to my discomforts way earlier instead.

My eye operation is at the very top of my list!

I have been wearing glasses since I was a young teenager, and my sight only kept on worsening year after year. When I reached adulthood I was practically unable to distinguish anything more than “nebulous shapes” a few meters away. My glasses were so strong that they gave me a headache when I was wearing them while looking at nearer things, which appeared unfathomably small, so I had multiple ones, and some with a lesser correction, such as for reading and working on a PC. 

I have been afraid of having an eye operation for as long as I can remember. What about if I lose my sight and become blind altogether, shall something go wrong? That fact that the chances of serious complications are extremely small compared to the number of people - among whom many friends and acquaintances - undergoing such an operation every day did nothing to deter the most dramatic outcomes that played in my head. 

Finally, after years of frustration at bringing an arsenal of glasses wherever I went, it was the plan of taking a sabbatical from work, and my passion for surfing, that tipped the scale. It was now or never, so I researched the best eye doctors in my city, and became an “expert” at all the different eye operations techniques, that I made an appointment to be freed of correction glasses for good. In fact, instead of getting my eyes lasered - which is the oldest and most common technique, but one that was unsuitable given the bigger range of my required dioptres’ correction and that recurrently causes “dry eyes” (by lasering away the moister outer layer of the eyeballs) - I opted for an ICL (“implantable collamer lens”) operation. 

Basically, instead of removing anything from your eye, they add a small contact lens by way of a super tiny cut on the side of your iris. This is usually performed by high-precision machines and, if your vision naturally worsens with the years again, the same lens can be changed, or even removed. Your eye remains otherwise “intact”. And the best is that you can see and remove the bandage already after just one day. 

For me, being able to see sharply for the first time since I can remember felt like a wonder! I gained eagle-sharp vision in just a day - in fact, my husband kept on joking that maybe I could also have “infrared, night enhanced” vision now and that my pupils could glow in the night, like for a cat. Funny - and incredibly liberating. It was simply magical for me, and my life quality became better than ever. I felt (was!) free. Plus, I can gladly report that over the happy years that followed, my sight, which before had kept on regularly worsening, had miraculously stayed intact.

Why only did I wait so long for it?

It was on the surge of this “wonder” - and on the resolve _never_ to wait so long again to face needed changes - that a series of long-due “interventions” followed. 

But isn’t that often the case? 

Fear nurtures fear.
Courage nurtures courage.