The Lie of Being Ready

The email sits in my drafts folder. Three weeks now. Perfect sentences, revised and polished until they shine like armor.

Too perfect. Too polished. Too ready.

And that's when I realize: I've been using readiness as a hiding place.

The Mind's Perfect Trap

My mind loves preparation. It builds elaborate scaffolding around every decision, every conversation, every leap. Just one more draft. Just a little more research. Just until I feel certain.

But certainty never arrives. It's always just out of reach, requiring one more revision, one more day, one more guarantee that doesn't exist.

The mind convinces me this is wisdom. Diligence. Responsible planning.

Really, it's fear wearing a business suit.

When the Heart Knows

Beneath all that mental architecture, my heart has been whispering the same thing for weeks: Send the email. Have the conversation. Take the step.

Not because I'm ready. Because I'm real.

The heart doesn't wait for perfect conditions. It responds to what matters now, in this messy, uncertain moment. It knows that readiness is often just procrastination in disguise.

But I've learned to distrust that knowing. To demand that every impulse pass through the mind's quality control department first.

The Intuition Beyond Timing

There's something deeper than readiness or unreadiness. A knowing that transcends preparation entirely.

My intuition has been pointing toward this moment for months. Not because the stars align or the conditions are perfect. Because this is where growth lives: in the space between wanting to act and feeling equipped to act.

True intuition doesn't ask if you're ready. It asks if you're willing.

And today, for the first time in weeks, I notice the difference.

Finding Meaning in the Mess

The MGT™ methodology suggests four stages of transformation. I've been stuck in Launch: gathering information, building confidence, waiting for the perfect moment to begin.

But Launch isn't about being ready. It's about beginning anyway.

The meaning I've been seeking isn't in the perfection of my preparation. It's in the courage to act from incompleteness. To trust that clarity comes through movement, not before it.

The Liberation of Unreadiness

I delete three paragraphs from the email. Then two more. What remains isn't polished or perfect.

It's honest.

And in that honesty, something shifts. The weight of needing to be ready lifts. What replaces it isn't confidence: it's presence. The simple recognition that this moment, right now, is enough.

I press send.

Not because I'm ready. Because I'm done waiting to be ready.

The response comes faster than expected. Not the rejection I'd been rehearsing defenses against. Not the approval I'd been crafting myself to deserve. Just a human response to human communication.

Simple. Clean. Real.

The Door That Was Always Open

Readiness was never the requirement. It was the excuse.

The door I thought I was preparing to walk through has been open all along. I just needed to stop polishing the key and start walking.

What strikes me most isn't the relief of finally acting. It's the realization of how much energy I'd been spending on the theater of preparation instead of the reality of engagement.

If readiness is the lie we tell ourselves to avoid the discomfort of growth... what truth have you been postponing while you wait to feel prepared?

✨Be yourself 2 Be a star✨