Waiting Until I Feel Ready: What Your Page Shows.
Waiting until I feel ready is a condition with no figure attached. So there is nothing to check and nothing that can ever arrive. That makes it the safest sentence you own, and also the most interesting one.
When your page has one line.
If only one sentence appears, the condition may be young. However, you may have kept the wording steady while the figure moved underneath. So check the number rather than the words. One line with a figure changed twice is the same finding.
When the figures fall.
A falling figure counts in your favour, because the idea usually got smaller and more real. Still, ask the harder question. When it fell, did you start? Also, if you cannot remember years, use bank statements or the year you bought the domain.
Why waiting until I feel ready never ends.
A money condition at least impersonates arithmetic. In contrast, people who never feel ready to start have no figure to reach. Then, after seeing the pattern, you may set a new condition by Thursday. The defence is an accountability partner for goals: say the new condition aloud, with its figure and date.
Stop waiting until I feel ready.
Add every readiness condition, like finishing a course, to your page with its date.
Tell one person your newest condition tonight, including its figure and today's date.
From the book.
What if your figures go down the page rather than up? That counts, and it counts in your favour, because a falling condition usually means the idea got smaller and more real, which is the direction you want. Ask the harder question anyway. When it fell, did you start?
I Want to Start a Business but I Never Actually Start, chapter 4: The number that keeps moving
Questions about waiting until i feel ready.
Is waiting until I feel ready different from a money goal?
Yes. A money goal can be checked, while a readiness condition has no figure, so nothing can ever arrive.
What if I set a new condition after doing this?
You probably will, and that is a forecast. Saying it aloud to another person turns it into a very different object.
What is my condition doing for me?
A condition that can never be met is protecting you from whatever waits behind it.
Read the whole chapter.
This lesson covers one section of chapter 4, “The number that keeps moving”. The book goes further, with the full evidence, the stories and every exercise.
Lessons in this chapter.
- 01 Arbitrary Savings Goal: Why Yours Ends in Zeros.
- 02 Excuses for Not Starting a Business: Map Them.
- 03 Raising Aspirations Experiment: What It Changed.
- 04 Hobbes Covenants Without the Sword: Your Promise.
- 05 Businesses That Need Startup Capital: Test Yours.
- 06 Waiting Until I Feel Ready: What Your Page Shows.
- 07 Recurring Revenue Goal Reached: Then I Moved It.