If You Want It, You’re Ready

If you want something, that means you’re ready for it. If you’re not ready, you just want something else, even if slightly different. So you’re left with two options: double down on what you want and trust you’re ready OR take a step back and recalibrate what you actually want. Either way, the goal is to clarify exactly what you want out of life as fast as possible, so you can close the gap between who you are and how you live. Meaning: if someone or something isn’t ready, you have to go back to the drawing board and drop that person, quit that thing or find a manageable workaround. Otherwise you’ll slowly chip away at what makes you, you. Allowing what isn’t ready to persist is like swimming upstream, against the current. But continually refining what you want out of life and committing to its evolving form will uncover your authentic self. Wants don’t change. They sharpen. They’ve always represented who you are at your core, buried under what your family wanted for you, what your…