I was reflecting on this over the weekend. It’s something that comes up a lot when we’re talking to prospective clients, and something that comes up for us.
How do you know when it’s the right time to push the button on that new goal, coach, mentor, programme, course, workout…
Simple answer. You don’t.
Life is never certain, so is it the “perfect” time? Maybe, maybe not.
Is it the right time?
Undoubtedly. Once we’ve identified a course of action we want to take, procrastination is just another form of internal resistance. Your sub-conscious attempting to keep you anchored where you are in the know and familiar.
Only you don’t want to stay where you are, or you wouldn’t already be thinking about making changes.
Waiting for the right time is one of the surest ways to end up staying stuck right where you are.
Try this. Instead of focusing on the course of action you’re considering and what could go wrong (which is our natural default), focus on what the cost to you is of staying stuck where you are.
If nothing changes in three months, a year, two years. How will you feel?
We all want certainty, we all want to know for sure the leap we’re about to take is definitely going to work out. But life isn’t like that.
If you don’t take the leap you’ll never know.
We up-level all the time, new coaches we hope will work out, investing back into the business before the revenues are there…
It’s uncomfortable. So is staying where you are.
Does it always work out? No.
Even when it doesn’t, there’s always a learning, and inevitably you find you’ve moved forward in some way, just in the act of trying.
When it does work out… boom!
Then you inevitably wish you’d just got going so much sooner!
What are you holding back from that you could start this week?