At any moment, life could end.
At some moment, life will end.
At some moment, life will end for everyone you know and love.
But we have today.
It’s never guaranteed.
But we have today.
For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up all the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.
I find mental “time travel” to be a very useful trick:
Go back 10 years and realize how amazed your younger self would be at where you are today.
Go forward 50 years and realize how much your older self will long for the challenges you’re currently facing.
Works wonders.