What’s stopping you is not that you don’t know what to do.
Oh, sure, you might not have ironed out every single little detail yet, but you don’t need to. You know more than enough to do something. And to do something is all you need.
No, what’s stopping you is that you aren’t completely sure that, should you try, you’ll succeed.
And so you stall. You wait for a better moment. You make a new plan. You call it patience, you call it strategy. It’s neither. It’s cowardice.
Weeks, months, years go by. You’re no closer to where you want to be. And it’s all because you were too scared to take a risk.
Do you know what the worst part of all this? You act as though one day you will magically have certainty that this or that is the right course of action. But you’ll never be completely sure.
If what you’re waiting for is complete certainty, and you refuse to do a single thing until you get it, you’re going to be waiting for the rest of your life.
So what do you do, if there’s no guarantee that something will work out?
Try anyway. You have literally nothing to lose.
The truth is that living with the fact that you let fear win is many times more painful than the ‘failure’ you are afraid of.
Once you’ve tried acting in the face of uncertainty you’ll realise that, whether or not it works out every time, you do not need certainty to take action.
And then you can really live.