APX-VI-0018
“I've been waiting to feel ready before I commit to anything.”
Readiness is largely a feeling, and it follows action — it does not precede it. The author doesn't wait until the conditions of the story are perfect before writing. They write, and the conditions respond.
Your Practice
Name the commitment you've been delaying. Set a start date — today if possible, this week at the latest. Write the single smallest action that constitutes beginning. Do only that. Readiness will either arrive after you start or it won't arrive at all.
The Architects
“You are no longer a boy, but a grown man. If, therefore, you will be negligent and slothful, and always add procrastination to procrastination, purpose to purpose, and fix day after day in which you will attend to yourself, you will insensibly continue without proficiency.”
— Epictetus, Enchiridion, 51 (Elizabeth Carter translation)