{"id":1566,"date":"2024-06-06T05:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T01:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2024-06-06T05:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T01:23:01","slug":"there-is-never-a-better-time-than-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/06\/there-is-never-a-better-time-than-now\/","title":{"rendered":"There is never a better time than &#8216;now&#8217;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The much touted (yet severely under practiced) &#8216; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>leap of faith<\/em><\/span> &#8216; has nothing to do with what fate has in store for you. You can either furiously hang on to the coat tails of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>impasse<\/em><\/span>( <em>status quo<\/em> in other polite words) and pretend that you are making progress( in a time where people have to run hard to stand at the same place) or embrace uncertainty( and the accompanying comfort of opening up possibilities) because that is where discovery, invention, progress and connections converge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Fait-Accompli.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2313\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is never ever a perfect time to begin- on the contrary, all the time you spend on pontificating, over analysing, deferring, not deciding and standing still is a serious trade off with not creating, not evolving and not living life to the fullest. There is a beautiful quote by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rumi\">Rumi<\/a> which puts this in perfect context-&#8221; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>As you start to walk on the way, the way appears<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Enlightenment is the natural enemy of the mind<\/em><\/span> as articulated by <a href=\"https:\/\/eckharttolle.com\/\">Eckhart Tolle<\/a> in his seminal book &#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Power-Now-Guide-Spiritual-Enlightenment\/dp\/1577314808\">The Power of Now <\/a>&#8220;. The clarion call here is to live fully <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>in the present<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>liberated<\/em> <\/span>from the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>burden of the mind<\/em><\/span> and <em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">being<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>intensely<\/em><\/span> in the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>now<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Being-Present-is-a-Present.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, time to write that script, start your project, pitch your idea to investors, apply for that job, travel to that destination in your bucket list, call that friend whom you have not in ages, move base to a new place- and see the magic unfold- <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>the obstacle becomes the way <\/em><\/span>(<a href=\"https:\/\/christophercloos.com\/the-obstacle-becomes-the-way\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>When the Obstacle Becomes the Way Forward \u2014 Marcus Aurelius&#8217;\u00a0Meditations\u00a05.20<\/em><\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The perfect time to start? It\u2019s now. What are you waiting for?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The much touted (yet severely under practiced) &#8216; leap of faith &#8216; has nothing to do with what fate has in store for you. You can either furiously hang on to the coat tails of impasse( status quo in other polite words) and pretend that you are making progress( in a time where people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/06\/there-is-never-a-better-time-than-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;There is never a better time than &#8216;now&#8217;!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}