how to start doing something, instead of saying you will do something
discipline, consistency, the best time is now.
In our heads we have a lot of ideas, plans and dreams waiting to be realized. But too often we wait - for a better moment, for motivation, for another Monday. We say what we would like to do, we plan, we tell how it will be... and nothing comes of it. Until we take action, our words have no power. Even the smallest step is worth more than the most beautiful declarations. If you really want to change something - start now. Not tomorrow. Not later. Now. Because motivation comes and goes, and consistent action is the only way to get there. The greatest power will always be the present. Because it is the present that is made up of the smaller steps that prove to you that you are capable of achieving something. By doing so, the future can change.
If you are letting go, giving up, getting discouraged, you are probably focusing too much on a specific goal, but not on what you will have to do to achieve it. What stages you will have to go through, what you will have to invest in, what you will have to change in your current life, way of being and routine in order to succeed. Looking at what will be “at the end,” you will probably feel overwhelmed. It will be unrealistic for you to achieve, abstract that you could do it or own it. Why? Because you haven't taken a step in that direction yet, so everything is distant, unknown and difficult.
What if you try to write out the whole path ahead of you - the points you need to meet, the points you need to reach in making it happen. This can certainly change in the process, however, at least you will know where to start. Each of these points will require you to work, to be determined, to be ambitious. Along the way you will lose or replace many things you already know and have. But at each of these points, you will gain more and more knowledge and experience. Knowledge and experience will make it all real, closer and accessible to you.