[source](https://x.com/ronin21btc/status/1997848923818573871?s=46) ___ _Hey dude._ Hey. _What are you waiting for?_ Ideal conditions. If I wait for the ideal conditions it won't be as scary and I'll be less likely to fail and feel the pain of devoting myself to something and not achieving the outcome that I specified (as success) in my brain. "Ideal" conditions don't actually exist.... And the time will pass whether I do this thing now or not. And fear is just something that my subconscious is using to keep me safe from what it doesn't know yet, but that doesn't mean I'm not capable of doing it. And I can ask myself, "what's the smallest step that I can take towards making this thing happen?" And instead of putting pressure on myself for me to be exactly perfect at doing this thing so that I can "justify" the time and energy that I spend on it, I can devote myself to the process of it and trust that as I take each small step the path will continue to unfold. And that none of this (is really that serious) and one day I won't be here and me putting something off is just me keeping myself from accessing parts of myself that I want to grow into. And I don't need to assign the (perceived) outcome right now as either a win or a loss because I don't even know what the full outcome is yet. This might just be something that I get to engage with and experience and learn from. I deserve to give myself the gift of engaging with my potential through curiosity rather than clamping down on it through fear of failure. Holding myself to this standard of perfection is just a way of keeping me from growing in all the ways that I can right now and creates judgment for myself that I don't deserve because I deserve to engage with the world in the ways that I can serve it and perfectionism doesn't help that. _We're so back._