You can do um even if you still scared

You wake up early kine, an get one ting you been circling around for weeks awready. You know exactly what da ting is. Get one shape, get one name, an you can tell one stranger about um in one sentence, dass how you know um is real, no jus one mood. Da light stay coming up. Your hands stay steady enough. Today is one plain ordinary day, an ordinary days is da only kine day anybody ever wen start someting on.

Get one cup near your elbow, an da steam stay rising up thin kine. Outside somewhere one bird stay doing da same call ova an ova. Da room get dat quiet feeling one place get befo da day get loud. Your phone stay face down. None of dis look like one turning point, an tomorrow um not going look like one either.

You been waiting for feel ready, an dat waiting wen cost you mo than da actual doing eva would. Hea's how um work, plain kine. Confidence not one permit dey give you befo you do da work, um one receipt dey print aftah, an dey only print um based on how much of da scary ting you actually wen do. So if you waiting for get um, you waiting for one paper dat only come from da same act you stay postponing until you get da paper. Dat loop no more one exit, an you been standing inside um nice an polite, tinking da delay was somebody else's kine.

Try flip your own thinking for one second. You wen decide dat being scared mean you gotta stop. But you was scared da first time you drive, da first time you talk to somebody you wanted for know, da first day of every job you eva wen turn out good at, an none of dat time da fear was telling you anyting about how good you was. Um was telling you someting new was happening, dass one different ting altogether, an um pass by itself wen um ready. Courage neva was da feeling being gone. Um da willingness for move while da feeling still stay on, an you wen do dat befo, you jus neva wen give yourself credit fo um.

So today, you set one timer for ten minutes an you do da scary ting bad kine, while still scared. Not da nice polish version. Not da one you would show somebody. Ten minutes of da real kine task, your heart doing whateva um like do, cuz da only ting dat really shrink one fear is meeting um face to face. Den you stop, no matta if um wen go good or not.

Ten minutes small enough dat today can hold um, an big enough for count. You not going feel mo brave befo you start. You going feel mo brave aftah, dass how um always stay set up. Start anyway. Dass da whole trick, an um neva was one secret.