Taking Action

The timing is never right. If you wait for the perfect time then you’ll never do what you want. When I told my wife that we should start thinking about kids I said, “No matter what you are never prepared for kids.” I wasn’t very far from the truth. There was no perfect time to have them. The first step toward getting something you want is to take action. Even if it’s just a little step it is better than nothing at all. I have always wanted to write a book or a novel. I finally decided to take action and not wait for the right timing. I wasn’t going to wait for my writing skills to magically improve. I was just going to do it. I have talked about being creative in solitude before and now I have put it to action. I sat down for an hour and wrote the titles to all the chapters I wanted to write. They may not have been in order but they were the key points I wanted to talk about. Have you ever heard of someone being frozen with fear? Waiting for the right timing is kind of like that. You are frozen with the fear of failure. I’ve talked about the fear of failure extensively already. I was training with the Air Force once as a civilian. It was a mini boot camp for scientists to get an exposure to what it was like to be in the field. We were doing a training exercise with guns that had lasers on them that could trigger a vest just like Lasertag. We were walking to a mock village when all of a sudden special forces pinned us down in an ambush. We all hit the ground. I dropped down into a puddle and froze with all the other people I was training with. When the training was over they taught us that if you are in an ambush the only way to have a chance of surviving is to push through it. I did not know this. This was a valuable lesson in life for me. When life gets you down you need to take action and push through it. If there is something you want in life, something you want to accomplish then start taking actions to do it. It’s like I learned when trying to lose weight. Don’t wait till Monday or New Years to start a diet. Start right now!