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The ONE Thing

532. It’s Never The Right Time

The ONE Thing

NOVA Media

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

How many times have you said, “It’s not the right time”? Whether it’s starting a new business, writing your book, or making a big life change, we all fall into the trap of waiting for perfect timing. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t exist. In this episode, Jay Papasan shares a personal story about finally deciding to adopt a second dog — and how that simple decision revealed a deeper truth about action, timing, and regret. Using insights from psychology and coaching, Jay explains two big mental traps that keep us stuck: the Planning Fallacy and the “Yes, Damn” Effect.   You’ll also learn the surprising origin story behind Nike’s iconic “Just Do It” slogan — and how to use that same mindset to move from “one day” to “day one.”   Challenge of the Week: Think about the thing you’ve been putting off. In the next 24 hours, schedule one small action that gets you started. Stop waiting for the right time — make now the right time.   *** To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods. We talk about: Why the "perfect time" never arrives The Planning Fallacy and "Yes, Damn" Effect How to turn "one day" into "day one" Links & Tools from This Episode: The Happier Hour by Cassie Holmes   Hillel Blumberg's Five Pillars of Wealth   Follow Jay on Instagram: @jaypapasan Free Resources Want to be a guest or share feedback? Email podcast@the1thing.com or send us an audio note at Speakpipe.com/the1thing. Produced by NOVA

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0:00.0

there's never the right time. It's certainly never going to be the perfect time. The universe just

0:04.3

doesn't line up that way. That's one of the reasons when someone screams, ah, perfect timing,

0:10.0

they're delighted because that just doesn't happen naturally. Timing doesn't line up for us.

0:15.8

And when we expect it to, we are bound to be disappointed. So you've got dreams. You've got things that you want to do.

0:23.0

But this episode is out there for all of my friends who kind of suffered from what Wendy and I did,

0:28.7

wanting timing to line up for us. This is for our planners. This is for our perfectionists.

0:34.3

The world isn't going to line up. So how do we just kind of turn that corner and decide to do it

0:40.5

right now? Instead of saying one day, we just get around us saying, you know what, today's day one.

0:45.5

We're going to get after this sucker. I'm Jay Papazan and this is the one thing. Your weekly

0:50.1

guide to the simple steps that lead to extraordinary results.

1:27.9

So after talking about it for months and months, frankly, probably for more than a year, well, we're getting a second dog. Wendy and I would talk about it, and then we'd say it's not a good time. We would go and meet a new dog, go on a play date with a new dog. Our existing dog taco would like that new dog. And then we'd say, well, maybe after the holidays. And then it wouldn't be convenient after the holidays and we'd postpone it again so we just got postponing and postponing and

1:32.8

postponing we got really close once we brought over a dog for a play date a neighborhood family had a new

1:38.9

baby the new baby and the new dog weren't necessarily compatible. We found out why when the dog attacked our

1:45.3

dog and we're like, nope. So again, again and again, we got close. We wanted to do this thing,

1:50.8

but it was never the right time. So this last weekend, after three straight road trips to

1:56.9

remote places were in Rhode Island, Wendy's facilitating event. I'm preparing for an event.

2:02.9

I had one, two, three, four, five, no six presentations that I was giving over the coming

2:08.4

weeks. We decided, hey, I guess it's never going to be a good time. So we might as well go ahead

2:14.0

and pull the trigger. So guess what? Today, we're getting a brand new puppy.

2:26.5

So I'll back up a little bit and give you the full story. So a lot of you who follow me on social know that we have a dog named Taco. He's a Brittany. He's got a great personality. He's beautiful

2:31.3

and he's sweet and all the things. Whenever we take him out for walks on the

2:34.8

weekends, people are always saying, oh, I left your dog, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's a great dog. And he's a

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