"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life." 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Growth doesn't happen in the "right moment." It happens in the resistance. The sick feeling in your stomach before you do the thing.

The voice that says "tomorrow" or "not yet" or "let's be realistic." It isn't protecting you. It's emasculating you.

Every day you choose comfort, you're not staying still. You're shrinking. Your tolerance for discomfort atrophies.

Your standards quietly adjust downward. And the gap between who you are and who you could've been gets wider while you

bullshit yourself about what you're doing. It's only ever two things: fear or laziness. Both sometimes masquerade

as "wisdom." You're not waiting for the right time. You're hiding from the hard thing and hoping circumstances change so you don't have to. (They won't.)

The man you want to become lives on the other side of the discomfort you keep avoiding.