I tend to try and avoid conversations with my Uber drivers, but every once in a while I come across a conversation I can't get enough of, and I end up learning something that stays with me for weeks.
My driver had been an engineer for fifteen years. Good money, good benefits, stable career. By every external measure, he was exactly where he was supposed to be.
Then one day, something shifted. He took a weekend trip, tried something he had never done before, and in the middle of it realized he had not felt that alive in years.
Six months later, he had left his engineering job, started driving while building a new business in the space he had discovered on that weekend trip, and was happier than he had been in over a decade.
He did not have a complete plan. He did not have all the answers. He just made one decision to follow what felt real, and everything that followed came from that.
One decision can change the entire arc of your life. Not a hundred decisions. Not a perfect plan. One courageous choice to do something different than what feels safe.
The catch is that the decision usually has to happen before the certainty does. You will not have enough information to feel ready. You will not have a guarantee that it works. You just have to decide that the risk of staying is greater than the risk of moving.
What decision are you sitting on right now? What are you waiting to feel before you make it?