What holds most people back is the need to be sure. The need to be absolutely certain. The need for perfect and complete.
Greatness is actually nourished by uncertainty. Acting without a guarantee of success is the only true power there is. Creators get it. They embrace not being sure, not being certain, not being perfect, not being complete. It is never a comfortable choice, except you are a psychopath, but within the discomfort lies the nudge needed to move forward.
No artist knows the body of work that will define them, and because they do not know, they create beauty at such a high frequency, greatness becomes a byproduct, not an end.
That book, that business, that learning, that partner, that diet, that exercise, that investment, that journey, that prayer, that thing you keep postponing because you are not absolutely sure, yet it keeps coming back to you, start it today. No matter the magnitude of your start, start it today. There is a reason it has chosen you and decided not to leave.
If you need to be absolutely certain before you act, you will ultimately end up dwelling in the only absolutely certain place – the grave.
It is in starting even when we are not sure that we find life and meaning.
– Osasu Oviawe