Stop Waiting. Become the Person You Know You Can Be
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The other day, I was in a meeting for Always Grateful, Never Satisfied with my business partners and a few others. And we were kind of talking about apparel and throwing marketing ideas around, discussing where the brand could go. It was a fun conversation. And at one point, Rose, who's kind of been consulting on this, paused and said something interesting. She looked at us and said, you know, you guys, you're on the precipice of something bigger than you think. You're doing well now, but I don't think you fully understand how close you are, right? Then she goes, if you had a gun to your head, you could figure out how to make X dollars next month. And this is over Zoom, right? And so my business partner, Freddie, some of you guys know him.
He sits there and this is like the most cinematic Scorsese-esque moment. It couldn't have gone better. He sits there for about three seconds, looks up and says, then someone go get a gun. And it was just, it was perfect, right? So we all laughed. But there's something there beyond the sort of cinematic nature of the exchange. There's something very true about it, right? Because the more I thought about that, the more I realized how profound the moment. That's the strange thing about human beings, right? When the pressure's real, right? When the stakes are high, when the moment demands that we almost always find a way. When we have to, we become sharper, more creative, more decisive. We stop waiting and overthinking.
We just go because we have to, because that's the standard that we set. But here's the question that's been sitting with me ever since the meeting, right? It's like, if we know we're capable of that level of urgency, if we know that version of ourselves exists, why do we only meet him when the pressure's unbearable? Why do we wait until life forces our hand? Or, you know, until the clock is almost out before we start running? Because most of the time, thankfully, there is no quote unquote gun to our head, right? And obviously that's metaphorical. But there is no like burning platform. There is no external force screaming at us to move. There's only the quiet whisper of potential. The quiet whisper of what we could be doing and too often we ignore it.
We tell ourselves we'll start tomorrow or next month or when things calm down. When we feel ready, that's a big one. But momentum, it doesn't arrive like a gift. I've learned that the hard way. I've learned that over and over and over again. Externalities, outside forces, they don't give you momentum. You manufacture it. It is an ignition switch in your soul. created by people who decide that waiting is just no longer acceptable. It's not a thing that's going to happen today. It's people who realize that the biggest threat to their lives isn't failure, it's drift. Drifting through days that could have been extraordinary or drifting through opportunities that could have changed everything. Drifting past the version of themselves they were meant to become.
The truth is the people who build remarkable lives do something very specific. They create urgency where none exists. They don't wait for that metaphorical gun. Again, they become that ignition.
Why is waiting considered a dangerous habit?
They light the fire themselves. There's something interesting about treating ordinary days like they matter because they do. So can you move when no one's watching? Can you build when nothing's guaranteed? You don't need the world collapsing around you to become focused or desperation to become disciplined. You just need a decision. That moment where you say enough waiting, enough drifting, enough acting like time is infinite. Because one day it won't be. That clock will run out and the question won't be whether you could have done it. The question will be whether you chose to act while you have the chance. So maybe the lesson from that meeting is simple. Don't wait for the moment that forces you to become who you're capable of being.
Become that person now. Light the fire, create the urgency, move like the opportunity matters. Because my friends, it does.
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