If you’re familiar with the song “Steal My Sunshine” — the 1999 hit by Canadian rock band Len, you might be aware of these three brilliant, perfect, tragic lines:

And of course, you can’t become
If you only say what you would have done
So I missed a million miles of fun.

I know so many people who are living this tragic reality.

So many people who talk about doing something, but instead of taking action, they only think about it, discuss it, plan it, and dream about it, but they never actually do it.

I hate it so much. It breaks my heart to watch them move through life, allowing the years to pass and their dreams die a slow, agonizing, irreversible death.

Lots of things stand in their way, but it often boils down to one thing:

Fear.

Fear of risk and change and uncertainty and failure.

As a result, as Len says, they fail to become. They miss a million miles of fun.

A million miles of fun is a lot of fun to miss.