I Wasn’t Waiting. I Was Climbing. 

Let’s talk about the statement: 

“If you wait til you’re ready, you’ll never do it.”

I get the purpose of it. I’ve used this many times to get myself to take a leap. 

I’ve even said it to people to get them to take a leap. 

That doesn’t mean that it works all the time – or that it is meant for every situation. 

I didn’t ever really think about that until today. 

Then I had a Breealization – a moment of pure clarity. 

I knew how to bring a dream of mine to fruition. 

I saw it clear as day. 

I felt excited in my soul. 

I knew that it was time. 

It was ready. 

I was ready. 

But before today, I hadn’t felt ready. 

And I was realizing just how much I had been beating myself up by saying “if you wait until you feel ready, you will never do it”. 

I was pressuring myself to jump when I didn’t even know if I wanted to jump. 

I had moments that I really wanted to jump, but I was still catching myself walking up to the edge and saying, nope. Not today. 

Had I allowed myself the space to be honest, I would have simply said, “ I don’t want to jump”. 

But instead, I found myself worrying, overanalyzing and trying to force it into existence. I was trying to convince myself that I needed to just do it. 

And I tried. 

Heck sometimes, I did leap. 

And after, I didn’t regret it- but I also knew I wasn’t doing that again. 

At least, not like that. 

It didn’t feel right. 

I can see it now, today. 

I am allowing myself a deeper layer of honesty. 

If I don’t know in my soul that I need to jump, I can listen to that. 

It is more important that I am honest about where I truly am in my journey. 

In the early days of dreaming these dreams, I wasn’t even thinking about jumping. 

I was thinking about making the climb. 

Those are different parts of the journey. 

They are all needed to walk a path. 

To get from one point to another.

I didn’t realize that the sentence itself had become part of the problem. 

I didn’t acknowledge that it was keeping me from, “I am walking the path”. 

Instead I was sealing in, “I will never jump”. 

The sentence I repeated wasn’t helping me move. 

It was teaching my nervous system that I was behind. 

I wasn’t building trust. 

I was building pressure. 

I can see this lesson clearly in this journey of building my dreams. 

I didn’t feel ready then, but today- I do. 

Today I feel clearer than ever about how to do this. 

Today it feels right. 

Today I can see how telling myself, “If I wait until I’m ready, I’ll never do it” took away my ability to rest. 

To trust. 

To follow my intuition. 

But now that I can see it clearly, I can see that I can wait for it to feel right. 

Because feeling “ready” isn’t really about a feeling. 

It’s about alignment. 

It’s the moment honesty catches up with desire. 

The moment pretending is no longer louder than the truth.

The truth is…

I don’t feel ready because the opportunity changed. 

I feel ready because I changed.

And I truly trust that nothing that is meant for me will miss me. 

I truly trust the process. 

I truly trust my journey. 

I truly trust myself. 

And I trust that wherever this path leads, I’ll find my way. 

I wasn’t waiting. 

I was climbing. 

Reflection Questions: 

• What part of your journey have you been calling “waiting” that might actually be preparation? 
• Where have you been trying to force yourself to leap before you were ready to? 
• What invisible sentence have you been repeating about your own timing? 
• Looking back, where can you see that you were climbing all along? 

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