There is no perfect time to start. Don’t keep putting things off waiting for 12 doves to fly over your house in the sign of a cross before you begin. Just start.
You want to be a public speaker? Fine. Schedule a free talk for a local service club, school, or church group. Just having a date will put the pressure on you to start researching and writing your speech. If that’s too big of a stretch, then join Toastmasters or take a speech class.
You want to be in the restaurant business? Go get a job in a restaurant and start learning the business. You want to be a chef? Great! Enroll in a cooking school. Take action and get started — today! You do not have to know everything to get going. Just get into the game. You will learn by doing.
Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback — about what works and what doesn’t. If you don’t do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve.
You have to begin — from wherever you are — to start taking the actions that will get you to where you want to be.
* Source: The Success Principles by Jack Canfield