When people want to start a new endeavor, they often wait for the "perfect" time or a "better" time — a time that's more "convenient."

Making New Year's resolutions is a great example of it. Why wait for some magical date if you can start right now?

From my own experience, I think it's actually better to start at an inconvenient time. If your endeavor takes a reasonable amount of time, you will have many days when you do not want to do it. Days filled with self-doubt. This is a guarantee.

So, beginning when it's perhaps not the best time, is good, because it will better prepare you.

Anyone can go out for a walk or a run when the weather is warm (but not too warm) and the sun is shining and everything is just... perfect. But can you do it when it's cold and dark and there's a snow blizzard and you're tired af?

Also, starting the thing you want to do right now means you're serious about it. It means you really want it.

Would you rather start a business right now and get wealthy sooner, or postpone the idea to some unforeseeable future (Brian Tracy calls it the "someday island") and get wealthy never? Get fit in three months or in three years?

Why choose a later date for something desirable if you can pick a sooner date?

Another point...

The "better time" might never come. You might rationalize that you can't start something now because of some XYZ issue. But how can you be certain that after the XYZ issue is resolved, there won't be some other problem that will stop you?

The truth is, the stream of problems never ends, so there likely never will be a perfect time to do the thing you want.

Let me rephrase that: There never will be a perfect time.

And before you know it, years have passed, you're still in the same spot you were 10 years ago, nothing has changed, and you keep telling yourself the same old excuses.

Trust me, I've been there. It's not a good place to be.

If your heart tells you to do something - start a business, get in shape, write a book, get that degree... Start now! It doesn't matter if it's inconvenient.

It'll always be inconvenient.

And it's better if it's inconvenient!

k.