May 3, 2025

"Your next chapter doesn’t wait for perfect conditions."

What keeps people from transforming their leadership, their business, and their life is not a lack of information; it is an identification with the habits of thought and action they created. Looking for evidence in your past to determine how your future will be—and if it wasn't a great past, shit happens, it won't be a great future… This is the linear thinking of victims, the kind of thought that produces mediocre lives. It is the kind of thought that you'll find a lot of agreement for from all the people around you who live a life of conformity and quiet resignation.

Given you are reading this, you aren't that, and if there are things that are keeping you from acting on the life you know you can live, it will be summarized in this powerful article written by Werner Erhard:

POWER

By Werner Erhard, March 21, 1983

Your power is a function of velocity, that is to say, your power is a function of the rate at which you translate intention into reality. Most of us disempower ourselves by finding a way to slow, impede, or make the process of translating intention into reality more complex than necessary.

There are two factors worth examining in our impairing velocity, in our disempowering ourselves.

The first is the domain of reasonableness. When we deal with our intentions or act to realize our intentions from reasonableness, we are in the realm of slow, impede, and complicate. When we are oriented around the story or the narrative, the explanations, the justifications, we are oriented around that in which there is no velocity, no power.

Results are black and white. In life, one either has results (one’s intentions realized) or one has the reason, story, explanations, and justifications. The person of power does not deal in explanations. This way of being might be termed management by results (not management for results but management by results). The person of power manages him or herself by results and creates a space or mood of results in which to interact with others.

The other factor to be addressed is time. Now, never seems to be the right time to act. The right time is always in the future. Usually this appears in the guise of “after I (or we) do so and so, then it will be the right time to act”; or “after so and so occurs, then it will be the right time to act”; or “when so and so occurs, then it will be the right time to act.” The guise includes “gathering all the facts,” “getting the plan down,” “figuring out ‘X’,” “getting ready,” etc.

Since now is the only time you have in reality, and now will never seem to be the right time to act, one may as well act now. Even though “it isn’t the right time,” given that the “right time” will never come, acting now is, at the least, powerful (even if you don’t get to be right). Most people wait for the decisive moment, whereas people of power are decisive in the moment. – Werner Erhard

So whatever it is that you tell yourself for why now is not the moment, acknowledge it, and choose to act now.