Perfect Never Starts

I spent three years "preparing" to write a book without writing a page.

Not laziness, but fear.

The most dangerous form of procrastination isn't Netflix.

It's productive procrastination—research, planning, learning—adjacent to the work but not the work itself.

Preparation becomes a shield when it should be a tool.

We fear:

The blank page.

The audience's response.

The canvas.

When we constantly prepare, we're not avoiding work—we're avoiding uncertainty.

Here's my take:

The best preparation often happens in the doing. Each mistake teaches more than a dozen books about it.

The most productive people I know prepare enough to step intelligently into uncertainty. Then, they adjust based on what they discover.

What are we preparing for that we could start—imperfectly—today!