You can wait for the next wave, but if you’re not careful and get caught in a rip tide, you’ll drift further out to sea.
You can prepare for the next big thing, learn everything, chew through countless scenarios. But if you can’t get the horsepower to the road, you’ll stumble on time’s treadmill and go nowhere.
You can sit on your couch thinking about the future, but one day the future runs out. “One day” — forget it, that never comes. But “day one” does. Tomorrow, in fact.
And you can make it your best day of the year. Or your life.
What are you waiting for?
The German original lives at reinergaertner.de, my blog since before most of the internet existed (1997). Translation: AI. Quality control: me, squinting. Apologies in advance.