Why It's Important to Start Before You're Ready

How long have you been waiting to begin pursuing your goal of owning a short-term rental? Most people are stuck in a perpetual mode of waiting. Everyone is waiting for the exact perfect moment to finally pull the trigger and get started. This is a huge mistake. The perfect time is right now.

Time is more important than timing. Avoid wasting time instead of focusing on getting the timing just right.

Consider these ideas to begin acting on your plans today:

1. You’ll never be ready. We love to stall. It’s in our nature. If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll still be waiting on your deathbed.  Truth.

◦ Do you know what the first step is? That’s all you need to know. Just go out and begin looking for that property to rent or buy.  Stop stalling.  You'll figure out the rest along the way. It’s like walking up the stairs. You only need to see one step at a time to make it to the top.

2. The perfect time will never happen. Again, you’ll be waiting until your funeral. There will never be a good time to get started. There will always be a viable excuse. All of the variables will never be in perfect alignment. The most perfect time you’re going to get is right now.  If you never saw the Muppet version of a Christmas Carol, I beg you to watch it now.  There's a moment when Scrooge goes back in time to watch the younger version of himself make up excuses, year after year, attempting to "get his ducks in a row" before marrying his beloved Belle.  After years of excuses, "the love is gone."   (Yes, some dreams come true, and yes, some dreams fall through... I'm like Rizzo when I watch that scene!)  Delay too long and your opportunities will be gone, as well.

3. The sooner you get started, the sooner you can be successful. The advantages of getting started now are numerous. Perhaps the most relevant is the fact that you can achieve your goals sooner. The sooner you begin any journey, the sooner you reach your destination.

4. Your natural tendency is to wait too long. We always wait too long. When is the last time you did something too soon? Everyone else is waiting. Be the person that doesn’t wait. Fortune favors the bold, so be bold.  I have talked to many retirees and ex-pats when I visit states like Hawaii and countries like Panama looking for vacation rental properties.  I always ask them what their biggest regret is.  The answer has always been the same.  "I waited too long," they say.  "I wish I had taken action years ago."  Don't regret waiting.  Take action now.

5. Your natural tendency is to value information too much.  Believe me when I say that the best education comes from DOING.  We want to know everything there is to know before we take the first step. Unfortunately, we can’t know everything. Life sometimes unfolds in unpredictable ways. You know more than enough to get started. Just do it.

6. The most successful people make decisions quickly and stick with them. The least successful people are terrible at making up their minds. They’re eternally conflicted for a variety of reasons, primarily fear. Give yourself a time limit to make a decision and then run with it.

◦ A decent decision, made quickly, that you stick with, is better than a great decision, a year from now, that you can’t maintain.

◦ Practice making decisions quickly and moving forward with them. This is a great habit to develop.

7. The sooner you take action, the more you’ll learn. Action leads to results. You learn something each time you get a result. You’re not producing any results while you’re sitting around waiting for the perfect moment to act.

 ◦ Even if your first property doesn't work out as you planned, the real-life lessons you learn from running it are priceless.  You will be farther ahead on your next property and way less likely to duplicate any mistakes you've made.

8. Action leads to inspiration. Most people falsely believe that they’ll take action when they feel inspired. But the opposite is true. Action leads to inspiration. Inspiration leads to even more action.

Why are you waiting? The most honest answer is fear. If you never get started, there’s still hope, since you can’t know for sure that your plans won’t work. If you never begin, you can’t fail.

However, the opposite is true, too. If you never get started, there’s no real hope of anything better. If you never begin, you’re guaranteed to fail.

Take a deep breath and get started today. You’ll never be 100% ready or comfortable, so you may as well begin right now. Now is the moment to change your life.

I'll end with my favorite motivational, move-it-or-lose-it quote:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”  ― Theodore Roosevelt

 

 

 

 

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