About a year after I quit my comfortable Financial Advisor job to start WatersEdge Wealth Management, I found myself looking out the window of my office.’re just faking it until you make it?

A lot had happened over the past 12 months.

My business was not at the place it is today, but it was doing well and growing.

I had clients I loved, a team who had my back, and the feeling that I was using my God-given gifts to make a difference in people’s lives.

But I recall looking out that window and saying to myself:

“It wasn’t a foregone conclusion that this was going to work.”

When I decided to leave my job to start WatersEdge, I wasn’t ready by traditional standards.

I was a single mom who’d been told to play it safe. I didn’t have enough saved. And I had no equity.

But somehow, I just knew I could figure it out as I went along.

And I knew I could do whatever it took to make it work.

I Couldn’t Stay

I left my job because I was suffocating.

I was working for someone else, following their rules, building their vision instead of my own.

If I stayed, nothing would change. Staying was just going to beget the same situation and keep me miserable.

So the only option left was to leave.

It sounds simple when I say it now. But at the time, I wasn’t “ready” in the way we’re told we should be ready. I didn’t have everything figured out. I didn’t have a safety net.

But I also knew I couldn’t continue to exist the way I was existing anymore.

A Different Kind of Ready

I was so ready that it didn’t even matter to me that I wasn’t ready.

Materially, financially, practically, no, I wasn’t prepared. But I had something more important: I believed it was going to work.

Not hoped. Not wished. 

Believed.

I ran the numbers and I just knew I had what it took to figure it out as I went along.

Maybe you’ve felt this way about something in your life. Where the traditional markers of “readiness” don’t apply. Where you just know, deep down, that you have to do this thing.

And that you’ll find a way to make it work.

There Was No Plan B

I had a team member, Beth, who believed in me. She saw my vision. And that was enough.

Beth and I never talked about “what if this doesn’t work?” We just believed it would.

I knew we were on the right track when my kids walked into the office after Beth and I set everything up. They looked around and said, “How’d you do this?”

I didn’t have a great answer then, but I knew I had taken a leap of faith. It was almost spiritual.

I just believed.

What Being Ready Actually Means

Here’s what I’ve come to understand: If you believe you’re ready, you’re ready.

And if you don’t believe it, if you can’t convince yourself and at least one person whose opinion you deeply respect, then you’re probably not ready. Not because you don’t have the skills or the money or the plan. 

But because readiness is about belief, not preparation.

You don’t need everyone to see your vision. But you need someone who can see it clearly with you. Someone who isn’t just saying “yes” to make you feel good, but someone whose judgment you trust who genuinely believes in what you’re building.

You can prepare forever and still not be ready if you don’t believe it’s going to work.

And you can be wildly unprepared but absolutely ready if you believe with your whole being that you’re going to make it work.

That’s the difference.

What Are You Waiting For?

So here’s my question for you: What are you waiting to feel ready for?

What would you do if you believed, truly believed, it was going to work?

What if the only thing standing between you and the thing you want is your willingness to believe you’ll make it work?

You might not have all the answers. You probably won’t. 

But if you can’t continue to exist the way you’re existing, if staying means suffocating, if the only option left is to leave…

Then you’re already ready.

You just have to believe it.