Start before you ready

My wife was asked to join an elite finance committee (including top CEOs, CFOs in SA) but wasn't sure how to do it, whether she'd be able to. I just said do it, and figure things out as you go along...

Action trumps fear!  There is a book by Jocelyn K. Glei - Mark Your Mark.

She says:

“We’re never ready. Important stuff, innovations that matter, they always need a bit more time, because the market isn’t quite ready for the leap we need to take. The market isn’t ready, and neither are we. The first person who used Instagram—what exactly did he do with it? Of course the app was launched prematurely, because it didn’t work unless you had other people to send pictures to. And the car was marketed before we had roads to drive on and gas stations to fill up with.

Alexander Graham Bell launched the telephone long before people knew how to use it or realized that they wanted one. His original plan was for people to answer by saying, ‘Ahoy,’ because there wasn’t a socially acceptable way for the upper classes to initiate a conversation without being introduced first.

Fortunately, his friend Thomas Edison coined the now overused term hello. ... Here’s the thing: Every idea that matters hits the market too soon. While you’re busy practicing and preparing you’re also hiding from the market, keeping your worthy and world-changing idea from the rest of us.

If you wait until you are ready, it almost certainly too late.”

Ask per Nike! Just do it! :)