The problem is that if we tell ourselves to wait until timing is right, we will make sure timing is never right.
It all comes down to the fact we are just scared of giving up the illusion of security or what is "convenient" even if that convenience is what is keeping us from achieving our goals, from what is truly important to us.
We will make sure we do anything possible to postpone the moment when we can say are I'm "ready".
Even if being ready just comes down to having enough money saved so we don't have to eat spaghetti or tuna while we work on our dreams, the story always goes something like this:
You want to have enough $ saved so you don't have to worry for 6 months and be able to just focus on yourself, on whatever you really want to do.
Once you have that $ saved you might tell to yourself, well, but things never work out the way we plan them so I think it would be better if I have enough saved for a year. I just need to keep doing what I would love to quit for a couple more months, and that's it, I will be ready then. Since that reasoning actually makes sense to you you end up postponing it for a bit longer.
A few months later you find yourself either worried about things like the economy, or maybe you think you need more money, or anything else you can come up with to justify postponing your dream and you keep doing it over and over.
The time is never right. You just have figure out what the worse case scenario would be, what could happen if everything you though you knew was absolutely wrong and what options you have to go back where you started in the event you fail. The chances are once you are aware of it, it won't be that bad as you though and hopefully you won''t longer be scared and will quit what you need to quit to invest your time on yourself.
While I agree with most of your comment, there is something to be said for preparation. Do you think it's unwise of me to wait until after I pay off my student loans (a year, perhaps) to quit my job and start my own business? Keep in mind that student loans are one of the only loans you can't get out of with bankruptcy. This is the kind of very specific preparation that doesn't have to keep escalating. I'm reasonably comfortable walking away from a failed startup with nothing; what I'm not comfortable with is being saddled with an ever-growing debt I can't get rid of.
and an important psychological principle backing this up is cognitive dissonance. if you keep doing what you're doing, you'll rationalize your behaviors to yourself.
It all comes down to the fact we are just scared of giving up the illusion of security or what is "convenient" even if that convenience is what is keeping us from achieving our goals, from what is truly important to us.
We will make sure we do anything possible to postpone the moment when we can say are I'm "ready".
Even if being ready just comes down to having enough money saved so we don't have to eat spaghetti or tuna while we work on our dreams, the story always goes something like this:
You want to have enough $ saved so you don't have to worry for 6 months and be able to just focus on yourself, on whatever you really want to do.
Once you have that $ saved you might tell to yourself, well, but things never work out the way we plan them so I think it would be better if I have enough saved for a year. I just need to keep doing what I would love to quit for a couple more months, and that's it, I will be ready then. Since that reasoning actually makes sense to you you end up postponing it for a bit longer.
A few months later you find yourself either worried about things like the economy, or maybe you think you need more money, or anything else you can come up with to justify postponing your dream and you keep doing it over and over.
The time is never right. You just have figure out what the worse case scenario would be, what could happen if everything you though you knew was absolutely wrong and what options you have to go back where you started in the event you fail. The chances are once you are aware of it, it won't be that bad as you though and hopefully you won''t longer be scared and will quit what you need to quit to invest your time on yourself.