Start before you’re ready
Now, now, today, now / Issue 1,163
Oh, hi friends!
A chapter from my second journal/book/creativity guide Do It Today is excerpted today over on Lens, a new publication about creativity, culture, and commerce.
The chapter is called “Start Before You’re Ready.”
It’s a call to creative action instead of creative comfort.
It urges you that today is the day to begin.
It wants you to have faith that you are better off leaping rather than standing still.
I would love it if you took two minutes to read it today.
(And if you like the flavor, consider buying Do It Today!).
It’s actually one of my favorite things I’ve ever written because I think it’s one of the most true things I’ve ever written and I’m very glad for it to be out in the world in this way.
“We are not starting today because we’re ready, but because we know we will never be ready. Admitting that no absolutely perfect moment exists means that every moment is full of promise.”
Hope you’re able to seize today, my friends.
Love this, as usual. Taking 5 days to work on a ginormous pile of notes for my book in progress and not knowing where to start. I’m not ready, I told myself. You said, today is the day to begin. So I’m setting my doubts aside. One of characters says you can only eat an elephant by taking that first bite. Cheers!