on being ready - by Isabel - Mind Mine

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“Sometimes a thing can seem an impossible leap, then when you do it, you find it’s just been a little step all along.” — Joe Abercrombie, the Heroes A question that has been coming up a lot lately—posed by me to myself, by those around me to themselves, by me to others, by others to me—is this rather taunting, confidence-distorting, action-stifling question of: are you ready? to be in the relationship? to start the business? to say i love you to your partner? to forgive the person you resent? to have the hard conversation? to tell the truth? to publish the piece? to admit you were wrong? to create the life you imagine? to do what scares you? By interrogating this question each time it comes up, I’ve realized that this elusive, rather mysterious notion of “being ready” might just be the most well-disguised psychological block of all time. It’s this idea that one day, you will receive a magical stamp of approval, delivered directly to you by some mysterious external force, telling you th

Ophelia by Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser (1857-1921) “Sometimes a thing can seem an impossible leap, then when you do it, you find it’s just been a little step all along.” — Joe Abercrombie, the Heroes A question that has been coming up a lot lately—posed by me to myself, by those around me to themselves, by me to others, by others to me—is this rather taunting, confidence-distorting, action-stifling question of: are you ready? to be in the relationship? to start the business? to say i love you to your partner? to forgive the person you resent? to have the hard conversation? to tell the…

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