If you are over 40, you already know this. You already have a list of things you will do when the time is right. The courses you will take. The places you will travel. The activities you will try. Later. When the time is right.
There are good reasons for waiting. You are 100% engaged in something that matters to you. Actually, that might be the only reason. If you are waiting because someone else needs you or because you are burnt out or because these are scary times, you are waiting for a better time.
There might not be a better time. Opportunities come and they go. If you are over 40, you already know this. There are things you wanted to do or to be, and now they’re off the table. There are things you could be doing right now, if only you had found the time to develop the skills you need before this. But that wasn’t ‘a better time’ so you didn’t and now you can’t.
If it doesn’t really matter to you, don’t sweat it. Don’t put it off for a better time. Put it aside. But if you think it might matter to you, find a way to do it now. Despite its endless pressures and distractions, now is the better time.
