What are you waiting for?

Brendan Benson has a song that I really enjoy (well, he has a few, but there is one in particular) titled "What I'm Looking For." He has one line in the song that always jumped out at me a little more than the rest:

"Well I don't know what I've been waiting for/
But I know that I don't want to wait anymore"

It seems like very often in our lives we are waiting for something. We probably don't know what, but we might have a lot of dreams and plans filed for "someday." Likely, that someday will never come.

There is no perfect time to do anything. If you want to and try hard enough, you will always be able to find a reason not to do something. Often at the core of this is that we are scared to fail, or scared that we won't do well at something. However, we have to be able to get past these things if we are going to achieve what we want to achieve, and if we are going to be the people that we want to be. Sometimes the very best thing of doing something and achieving something is overcoming the risk that it takes to even try.

So try to think about those things that you have been putting off, or the things that you want to do but you are not sure you will be able to do them. Plan for how you will accomplish something, or just jump right in. You might fail, but then, that's not really the worst thing in the world.

If not now, when?