The First Step

The first step is always the scariest, especially when you’ve been away for a while.

The first time in the gym. The first job application. The first time you ask someone out.

It’s the biggest mountain, the hardest hurdle to overcome. And then we freeze up because we’re not ready, it’s not perfect, conditions aren’t ideal.

So we wait. We wait and wait, and paralyze ourselves by overthinking and waiting for the perfect chance.

This blog post is meant to break that chain. I’ve waited and waited for the perfect thing to write about after being away. The conditions weren’t perfect, I was overwhelmed with work and life and everything else.

The longer I waited, the harder it was to start again.

Here’s to breaking that chain, to putting out something that’s good enough, knowing that perfect won’t come. Even if this thing we finally act on sucks, it’s better than indecision, and it gives us a baseline to grow from.

So publish that song, send that app with an imperfect resume, record your podcast. Whatever it is, just by doing you’ve already taken the hardest step.