Action Leads to Clarity!

Pre-script: You don’t need to read this entirely, just the bold ones should do…  

How small steps helped me get unstuck — and why doing beats overthinking every time.

A few years ago, I found myself in a place that felt strangely familiar: Stuck!

Not because I lacked ideas — I had too many.
Not because I didn’t care — Well I didn't care! 
I was simply overwhelmed by possibilities and paralyzed by the need to choose the right one.

So I did what any well-meaning thinker would do:
I spent a lot of time thinking. I read books. I binged on YouTube. And I waited for clarity to show up... 

But it didn’t.

Until one day, I took a single small step.

It wasn’t a dramatic leap of faith.
No quitting of jobs. No public declarations.

Just a quiet experiment. I just printed a bunch of photos and started working on a compilation - which later turned out to be something... I simply tried out this idea I’d been circling for months — not to prove anything, but to see how it felt to get to get started.

That single step? It did more than months of planning ever could.
Suddenly, the fog started to lift.

Clarity is like riding through fog.

You don’t wait for the entire road to appear before moving.
You turn on your headlights, go easy on the throttle, and trust that the path will reveal itself as you go.

That’s how it felt. I couldn’t see 20 feet ahead, but I could see just enough to keep moving. And then the next. And that’s where clarity lives — not at the starting line, but a few steps in.

From the outside, it looks too damn difficult, too risky, too uncertain.
But the moment you put on that helmet, your body adjusts. The fear fades.

That’s what action does. It neutralizes fear. It gives you data.
You stop wondering if something might work — you find out for yourself.

If you’re stuck, unsure, overwhelmed — don’t wait for certainty.
Take the smallest, cheapest, easiest possible step. Something so simple it feels like play

Test an idea. Start a conversation. Say yes to something small.

You don’t need to see the whole road. Just enough to move forward.

Because clarity is something you earn by taking action everyday!

@the.photoguy
Rajarshi Mitra