Live Within Your Means: As Soon As...

One of the biggest steps towards reaching any goal is getting started. Procrastination is the enemy of personal progress. There actually is a time and place for it, in procrastinating the distractions that do not get you closer to your goals. However, the time to get started on important things in your life is now, this minute, at this very moment.

Dr. Seuss presents this idea quite well in his classic Oh, The Places You'll Go!

You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-neck pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild spaces,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place ...
... for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go
or a bus to come, or a plane to go
or the mail to come, or the rain to go
or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow
or waiting around for a Yes or No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone us just waiting.
Waiting foe the fish to bite
or waiting to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
Or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls, or Another Chance.
Everyone is just waiting.
NO!
That's not for you!
Somehow you'll escape
all that waiting and staying.
You'll find the bright places
where Boom Bands are playing.

I had an income producing investment that got tied up in some legal issues. The income stopped and many of those who had invested were waiting with baited breath for every twist and turn in the case. Many, including myself, put everything on hold pending the outcome of the case. Finally I realized that I had wasted months that I could have moved on and started finding another solution. To this day, over four years later, the case is still in limbo.