The Time Isn't Right and Other Excuses You Should Abandon.

When I was 21 my girlfriend (now wife) gave me the news that she was pregnant. At the time the news filled me with anxiety and fear of the permanent uncertainty that having children brings.
I kept telling myself I was too young, didn't have the right job, the right car, the right house, not enough money and whatever other excuse I could cook up at the time. Bottom line for me was the time was not right!
Really I was just being selfish and didn't want to accept the responsibility. I was looking for someone or anyone to empathize with me to let me know that the way I was feeling was normal.
After some though I realized that everything was going to somehow work out and I was able to enjoy the time leading up to the birth of my first child instead of worrying about every little detail.
If I had waited for those circumstance that I thought I needed to be ready to have a child I would never have had any of my three children, I wouldn't have my family or anything else that is special to me today. The excuses would control every decision I make. I try to remind myself of this when I start to hear myself giving myself excuses for why I cannot get things accomplished.
As I write this, it is about 3 weeks into the New Year and I can't help but wonder how many people have abandoned resolutions for the New Year to change their lives to get healthy, to eat better, to sleep better, to exercise more. Even better yet, why do we wait to January 1st to make these changes or give up on them if we didn't stay the course from the onset?
That perfect time is probably not going to happen, has it ever in the past? Why keep working to make next week or next month the perfect time to make a change when you have today to take some action, some small step towards something you are already thinking about?
Thanks for allowing me to write this, I have some excuses I need to start putting behind me today!