Someone kept saying they were getting ready but never actually did anything. The speaker warns against using preparation as an excuse to avoid real work. At some point you have to stop planning and start delivering.
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He had started a stage here and a stage there and a stage here, and it was looking good. But had I left him alone, it would have been another six months, maybe, if before I'd seen anything. And so he was surprised because I'd said that I was disappointed that he hadn't presented what he said he was going to present. And his response was that he was getting ready. He was getting ready. How many of us do that? You know, we justify our busyness. We're so busy being busy that we forget that there's actually a final outcome, something that actually needs to be done. And so this is your reminder that there's prep time, there's time in your head, and there's time to actually do.