Procrastination steals our dreams. If you want to stop
 
procrastinating and take action, then whenever you think
 
"I can't," you MUST do it, whatever it is. There is
 
nothing wrong with an attempt and a miss…in the grand
 
scheme of things it is almost always better than not
 
swinging the bat at all. A good friend of mine went out
 
and started a brand new website design business a couple
 
of months ago. He was amped up and excited about the
 
whole thing, talking nonstop when he got started. At the
 
time, I was excited for him and encouraged him to go for
 
it, to reach for the life of his dreams. Recently I
 
called him up and I asked him how things were going, and
 
he said "great". He proceeded to tell me with lavish
 
enthusiasm about all the wonderful and profitable things
 
he's going to be doing. All the plans and ideas he has
 
for his new company. All the things he is looking
 
forward to being able to have and do when the big bucks
 
started rolling in. Funny enough, can you guess the one
 
thing he DIDN'T tell me? That's right… Anything that
 
he's actually DONE. You see, I could quickly discern
 
this by listening between the lines. As a matter of
 
fact, this situation resonates with me. I recognize this
 
tendency in others more and more as the weeks pass as a
 
constantly-striving-for-that-next-level entrepreneur
 
myself. Why? Simply this: I've been there. Many, many
 
times in fact. You see, this friend of mine is a
 
dreamer. He's a planner. A real big thinker. But…the
 
one thing he's not? He's not a doer. He just doesn't
 
take action. This kind of thing depresses me. It
 
frustrates the heck out of me. Makes me want to throw my
 
hands up in the air. How many people do you know like
 
this? Are YOU like this guy? Do you procrastinate on
 
your dreams? It's ok if you are. It's ok if you do. I
 
oftentimes have been that same guy in my life. There's
 
no secret there. I'm most definitely a big, big dreamer-
 
as often as not in the clouds as I am solidly on the
 
ground. But on the ground is where the action is. We've
 
just got to realize that the greatest idea in the world
 
won't get you anywhere unless you stop procrastinating
 
and take action. The truth is that an "idea" is just an
 
idea. It's fragile, delicate. It's fleeting, ephemeral.
 
It has so little solidity a small puff of air can blow
 
it away or a negative thought shoot it down. We don't
 
even know if it's a good idea until something gets done
 
and the world has a chance to choose to take a look or
 
take a pass on it. It's true that the entrepreneur is
 
nothing without the idea. But the idea is nothing
 
without the work. If we don't take action and put in the
 
work, ideas don't grow. Plans fall apart. Freshness
 
grows stale. Ambitions wither. Dreams die. It's a sad,
 
sad story, oft repeated. What about you? What are you
 
putting off? What are you waiting for “the time to be
 
right" on?