The Acceptance Project | Personal Growth, Self-Care, & Emotional Health
Sep 8, 2026 · 15 min · 9 segments
**Is there something you've wanted to do for years but keep telling yourself you'll get to someday?** Maybe it's a trip you've dreamed about, a book you want to write, a career change, going back to…
Bryan GrossHost
I remember looking at that picture and thinking, what exactly am I waiting for? Because I'd been treating someday as though it were guaranteed, and we all know it isn't.
And someday is where we put things when we want them badly enough to dream about them, but haven't quite found the courage to commit to them.
Maybe you've always wanted to write a book, but keep telling yourself you'll begin when life settles down.
Or maybe there's a trip you have dreamed about for years, but you keep waiting for the timing to feel perfect.
The truth is, life rarely settles down, and perfect timing has the habit of missing its flight.
At some point, we have to decide whether we're going to keep imagining the life we want or take one honest step toward living it.
Maybe there is something you've been talking about for five years, 10 years, I don't know, maybe 20 years.
And you even talk about that idea with your friends and give them every detail as if you've already accomplished it, but in reality it sits there quietly on the shelf waiting for you to find the perfect time to pick it up and do something with it.
I remember looking at that picture and thinking, what exactly am I waiting for? Because I'd been treating someday as though it were guaranteed, and we all know it isn't.
And someday is where we put things when we want them badly enough to dream about them, but haven't quite found the courage to commit to them.
Maybe you've always wanted to write a book, but keep telling yourself you'll begin when life settles down.
Or maybe there's a trip you have dreamed about for years, but you keep waiting for the timing to feel perfect.
The truth is, life rarely settles down, and perfect timing has the habit of missing its flight.
At some point, we have to decide whether we're going to keep imagining the life we want or take one honest step toward living it.
Maybe there is something you've been talking about for five years, 10 years, I don't know, maybe 20 years.
And you even talk about that idea with your friends and give them every detail as if you've already accomplished it, but in reality it sits there quietly on the shelf waiting for you to find the perfect time to pick it up and do something with it.
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