The timing will never be right. So don't wait.

I talk to a lot of people who want to make a change in their life or have an idea they want to pursue or an activity they've always wanted to take up. But - they'll tell me, the time just isn't right.

Then I tell them. I have some really bad news about your change or that idea or that activity. It's never going to happen, because the time will never be right.

As someone who has fewer minutes left in his life than I've already had - I can confidently tell you something about time. Time is really tough to look back on when you find yourself staring at time you spent accepting things because you decided it was bad timing to change things.

It's tough to look back on time you didn't make better use of because you decided that wasn't the perfect time to make better use of.

The reality is, change is scary. Tackling something new is scary. Launching something that might fail is scary. And there is no better excuse in the world to avoid all of that scary stuff than "the timing sucks right now."

As someone who has waited on a lot of better or perfect timing in life to tackle scary things, I want to let you in on a secret. Maybe offer advice. When I finally tackled a lot of those scary things - because I did and continue to tackle a lot of them - it wasn't because the timing got better, it was because I got bolder.

It wasn't because the timing got better, it was because I woke up one day realizing how comfortable I'd grown with imperfect timing. And the more you start to believe the timing in your life sucks, the more you can start believing some parts of your life are just supposed to suck.

That is a lie you tell yourself. One that is easy to start believing.

It's Monday. There is something you want to take on this week. Something you want to change. But, you're probably already trying to tell yourself that's a change better put on hold until next week. Or next month. Until some Monday when you wake up realizing you've come to accept the thing you once wanted to change.

If that happens, let me rule out a myth about that ahead of time. It won't be because of bad timing. It will be because you found it easier to accept bad timing than to demand time treat you better.

Now that you know that myth ahead of time, dismiss it. Demand time treat you better. Accept that the timing will always suck, but you don't - so forge ahead.

You are only assured this minute. Just this one you are in. What difference does it make if the timing of this minute sucks or not. Do something with it. Something you've always been afraid to do.