I Almost Didn’t Write This…
You ever notice how we treat our dreams like leftovers?
We keep putting them back in the fridge telling ourselves “I’ll get to it tomorrow,” knowing damn well tomorrow has commitment issues.
And that’s how your message ends up sitting quietly in the back of your life, waiting for you to finally stop delaying and start doing the thing you know you’re meant to do. I want to talk to you like you’re the one person who actually needs this reminder right now, not in a broad motivational way, but in the way two people talk when they’re tired of hearing themselves make the same excuses.
Because here’s the truth most people don’t like to admit out loud: You’re not actually waiting for time. You’re waiting for courage.
You have a message inside you that could help people in ways you may never fully see. You’ve lived through things that shaped perspectives others desperately need. You’ve survived what should have broken you. You’ve learned things the hard way, the long way, the slow way, and the painful way. You’ve built insight that could save someone years of struggle.
And yet… you wait.
You wait for the perfect moment. You wait for clarity to drop out of the sky. You wait for your confidence to magically rise like bread dough. You wait until life “slows down,” even though life has never once slowed down on command. You wait until all the ducks are neatly in a row, even though yours are feral and don’t listen.
And every time you wait, your desire loses a little oxygen. It’s like letting the fire burn out because you don’t feel like getting up to toss another log on. Eventually you convince yourself that maybe the fire wasn’t that important in the first place.
I know this cycle intimately because I lived in it for years. Waiting made me feel responsible. It made me feel like I was being strategic by “not rushing.” But the truth was much simpler and far more uncomfortable: waiting was the safest way to avoid being seen starting at zero. It protected me from the vulnerability of being misunderstood, or criticized, or failing publicly. Waiting wasn’t about wisdom. It was about fear wearing a tie and pretending to be professional.
And I see this in my work too. I talk to authors who are fired up, ready to build their brand, ready to show up, ready to make their message real. For a moment, they’re alive with possibility. Then they disappear into the Bermuda Triangle of “I’ll circle back.” Weeks turn into months. Months into a full year. And when I check on the website they were building, nothing has changed. Not a word. Not a headline. Not a single updated photo.
And I know exactly what happened. Not because they don’t care, but because fear won the argument inside their head. Fear disguised as “being careful with money,” fear disguised as “not wanting to rush,” fear disguised as “I just need a little more clarity,” fear disguised as “I’ll do it when things settle,” which, by the way, is one of humanity’s greatest lies.
Things never settle. They just rearrange themselves in new chaotic patterns.
When you don’t express your message, you don’t stay the same. You slowly become someone who doesn’t trust themselves.
Your identity shrinks. Your confidence thins out. Your voice loses its sharpness. Your creativity becomes hesitant. Your energy dulls.
And you can feel it.
This is why Nathan Max Osorio episode hit me so hard. Not because it was inspirational, but because it was accurate in a way most people never articulate. He talks about how our language shapes our reality. How the way we talk to ourselves sets the boundaries of our identity long before our actions ever do. He points out that most people speak in delay language without realizing it.
“I’ll do it later.” “Maybe next month.” “Once things calm down.” “I’m almost ready.”
These aren’t harmless phrases. They’re identity-shaping choices.
They train your mind to believe action is optional, urgency is unnecessary, and desire can be put on ice indefinitely. Nathan reminds us that if you want to change your life, you have to change your language first, because your language is what gives your courage permission to exist in the first place.
And honestly, this newsletter you’re reading right now is the perfect example of what happens when you stop negotiating with fear and start showing up.
I waited eight months to launch this thing. Eight months of circling around the idea, telling myself I needed to be more prepared, more organized, more polished, more… something. I was “afraid of the commitment,” as if writing one honest letter a week was going to ruin my life. Turns out, I was wrong on every level possible.
Because this newsletter alone brought eight incredible clients directly into my world. Eight people who saw the value, felt the consistency, trusted the message, and reached out because I showed up enough times for them to finally say, “Okay, I see who you are.”
And while this edition is going out later in the day, I still haven’t missed a single Wednesday all year. That commitment became a mirror. It showed me who I am when I stop delaying and start embodying my own message.
And when I think forward, five years, ten years, I realize this newsletter isn’t just a communication channel. It’s the spine of my identity as a creator, a strategist, a writer, and someone who lives their message rather than just preaches it.
Which brings me to you.
Because I want you to step into the version of yourself who doesn’t wait for the weather to clear before you start building the life you want. You don’t need a perfect plan. You don’t need a brand overhaul. You don’t need a team of strategists whispering affirmations into your ear.
You need movement.
And here are three simple things you can do right now, not in the new year, not “when you’re ready,” but right now, that can genuinely shift your entire future:
First, say the thing you’ve been avoiding saying. The message you’ve been sitting on. The insight you’ve been replaying in your head. The story you keep editing before you ever write it. Let it out. Put it into the world in whatever imperfect form it comes in. Your voice gains strength through use, not through hiding.
Second, take one step today that moves your message forward. One step. Not a reinvention. Not a complete overhaul. Just one expression of movement. Write the post. Update the bio. Record the 30-second idea. Clarity doesn’t precede movement. It comes from movement.
Third, create one weekly commitment that forces you to show up. A newsletter. A video. A simple post. A ritual that pulls your message out of your head and into the world once a week, no matter how you feel. Identity doesn’t change through intentions. It changes through repetition.
People worry so much about wasting money, but they rarely realize how much time they’re wasting by doing nothing at all. And time, unlike money, does not come back.
Your message is not a someday project. It is the doorway to the next season of your life. And the only person who gets to decide to walk through it is you.
I almost didn't write this because sometimes I feel like I'm being too honest. On the other hand, you may have needed this like I did.
If you need support with your author platform-building work, and you've been waiting. Message me. Now is a good time to get things rolling.
-Hussein
