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Stop Waiting for the Perfect Time; Learn How to Create It Yourself

You’re not too busy. Here’s why

“If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while you’re making excuses.” ― Holly Lisle

One of the first things we learn in life is to wait. We are told to wait for the adults to finish speaking, wait for the test results, wait for the promotion, etc.

So we also wait for the right time to pursue our dreams.

We dream of the day our dreams come true, but we’re often dreaming of the right time to pursue them. We create ideal scenarios in our minds where everything just falls into place, but we always think of our busy schedule and say “I don’t have time for this yet”.

Turns out, that the perfect time never comes, and before we know it, we’ve wasted years doing nothing, because we spent all our time waiting.

Whatever our dreams are, we always tell ourselves that now is not the right time. But we’ll only get closer to our dreams if we start working towards them.

Creating the perfect time has nothing to do with time itself, but our mindset towards a busy life.

We’re never too busy

Everyone is familiar with the feeling of being too busy to pursue our passions. But regardless of the reason why we’re not going after our goals, there’s always a way to work around our busy schedule.

But telling ourselves that we’re “too busy” is just a way of saying, “I have other priorities that are more important.” And that might be true, but if our dreams are important to us, we make it work.

If we want to write a book, we can start by writing 100 words every evening before we go to bed, or spend ten minutes in the morning creating an outline for the story.

Because we all have 24 hours in a day. All of us. And you wouldn’t be the first person to balance a 9–5 job, two kids, and still pursue your dreams. It all comes down to our priorities and how we manage our time.

Break the habit of putting things off

The first step will always be the hardest. We all know this, yet we let the weight of the first step keep us from trying. Instead, we hope the day comes where everything suddenly becomes easier — because we’re waiting for the perfect time.

But when is the perfect time? Will we write that book once the kids move out? Will we pick up the paintbrush again once we retire? Will we start that business once we have enough money to quit our job?

We need to break the habit. There will never be a perfect time because the time we’re waiting for is when we’ll stop being afraid of the uncertainty. When we stop fearing the unknown. But that time will never come.

The good news is that we don’t have to put it off any longer. Because once we understand that the “there’s not enough time” mindset is purely a thought process, that is when we can practice breaking the habit.

Changing our mindset

We’re afraid to start something new because we believe that something has gone wrong when something ends. Breakups, for example, or getting fired, or businesses failing — these things make us feel sad, unmotivated, and disheartened to give it another go.

Thinking something went wrong is making us feel like we can’t, or shouldn’t, move on to the next thing. We go over in our minds what went wrong, what we could have done differently, and how we could have prevented the outcome.

Everything might not happen for a reason, but everything happens the way it’s supposed to happen. Everything that ends, good or bad, ends because it's served its purpose.

Negative experiences show us what we don’t want. They help us find what we should do, think, and say, instead.

So we shouldn’t avoid chasing our dreams because of our past — because our past has nothing to do with our present. Thinking we’ll make the same mistakes again is creating a fear that makes it so much harder to leave our comfort zone.

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” — C.S. Lewis

Final thoughts

No matter how busy we are or what our life looks like, if we have a dream and we’re waiting for the perfect time to pursue it, then we’ll wait forever.

We can make it easier for ourselves by breaking our goals up into smaller tasks. We build our dreams off of hundreds, if not thousands of daily choices.

So as long as we make one right choice today, we’ll be one step closer to our goals tomorrow. An “I’m too busy” mindset won’t change unless we change it. We won’t wake up one day and magically be less busy. If we want something, we have to work towards it, no matter how long it takes.

Here are a few stepping stones that can help you achieve your goals:

Manage your time.
Figure out your priorities.
Break the habit of putting things off.
Stop waiting for the perfect time, create it instead.
Remember that negative experiences happen because we needed them to.

When we wait for the perfect time to start a new project, quit our job, or follow our dreams, we’re telling ourselves we’re too busy to be happy.

How we feel should always overrule the limits of our circumstances. If we have a dream, we need to decide that today is a perfect time to take the first step.