Almost always, by the time we get around to doing the thing we've been waiting to do, we never say, "I'm so glad I wasted a bunch of time waiting to do this until now."  It just never happens.  We always wish we wouldn't have waited.  Wished we would have gotten over ourselves sooner.  Wished we could have experienced the goodness that would have been realized a long time ago had we not waited.

I used to be a waiter.  

Definition

wait•er

/'wāder/

noun

A person that waits for things to happen to them instead of taking the initiative to make things happen in their lives.

I've been a waiter in life and business.

Waiting on opportunities.  

Waiting on someone else to make a move that will inform my move next.  

Waiting to be chosen.  

Waiting on the right time.  

Waiting to get over my fear, that I tell myself is everything other than fear.  

Waiting for the weather to change.  

Waiting to have more money.  

Waiting to find the right person for the job.  

All I had to show for waiting was wasted time.  Unfulfilled potential.  Dreams unrealized. Less doing.  Less time living my life.

When we're waiting for some thing or someone else, our current situation  becomes the responsibility of whatever/whomever we're waiting on.  It removes our accountability to what happens in our own lives.

For most of us, we don't know what to do other than wait.  It never even dawns on us that there is another way to live.  A more fulfilling way to be.  So I'm here to offer a few examples that may spark you to do more and wait less.

Stop waiting.  Do the things.  Do all the things.  Do the hard things, too.  You'll never ask your future self why you didn't wait to do something if you're still waiting to do it.