Don’t Wait for the Right Moment—Create Your Defining Moment

The Right Moment is Your Greatest Contribution and includes your defining moments, that you create. You don’t wait for the right moment, you create it.  Your Defining Moment Starts Now.

Masterwork doesn’t begin in some fairy tale future.

In fact, you’ve been building your Masterwork piece by piece all along, whether you know it or not.

Your conscious, top-of-mind Masterwork begins now.

Masterwork is the work you choose to care about and contribute to.

Masterwork and legacy are connected, but they are not the same.

Masterwork is the meaningful work you commit to while you’re alive.

Legacy is the lasting imprint that grows from it, often without you ever seeing the full reach.

Legacy isn’t something we assemble once life slows down.
It’s planted and cultivated every time we stop taking life for granted and act on what truly matters.

But here’s the challenge:
We’re creatures of habit.
We wait for the “right time.”
We convince ourselves we’ll get to the meaningful stuff eventually.

That assumption of the ‘right time’ is the quiet architect of regret.

We assume there will be time to reconnect with the people who matter.
That freedom, energy, and clarity will still be there when we’re finally ready to use them well.
That life will pause until we get our act together.

But life doesn’t work like that.

It rarely asks for permission before it rearranges everything.

Often, it takes what can be called a Defining Jolt,
an event that cuts through routine and forces a reordering of priorities.

An illness.
A layoff.
A loved one suddenly gone.
A moment when time sharpens and distractions fall away.

There are also global jolts, like pandemics, wildfires, wars, and displacements,
the kind that shake the collective and leave no one unchanged.

They raise urgent questions:

What am I really doing with my time?
Who am I giving it to?
What kind of life am I living right now, and would I be proud if it were my last?

Some freeze.
Some recalibrate.
Some don’t slow down long enough to notice anything has shifted.

This isn’t about fear.
It’s about clarity.

We can’t control the jolts.
But we can control our response.

And that’s where agency begins.

Agency is the engine of Masterwork.

There’s human agency, the ability to influence the world,
and personal agency, the power to choose how we show up in our own lives.

It’s this kind of agency, personal, that fuels Masterwork.

It lives in the choices we make with our time, our relationships, our focus.
It shows up when we stop postponing what matters.
It sharpens when we act like our life has meaning right now, not someday.

This agency is where you create your own Date Motivated Action
aligning habits with action.

Preparation, plus a calendar date, plus the mindset to handle uncertainty, reflected through effort, not just goals.

Ask yourself and check-in:

Who are three people I deeply value but haven’t made time to connect with?

What’s one meaningful thing I’ve sidelined that reflects the work I want to be remembered for?

Where have I long wanted to go, literally or symbolically, but keep putting off?

What’s one act of impact I could make in my community today, not someday?

This isn’t theoretical. It’s practical.

Sherrie Rose led a workshop called:

“Why Smart Entrepreneurs Procrastinate and the Framework to Break Free.”

Participants didn’t just talk about priorities.
They opened their calendars and blocked time for what mattered.

Not tomorrow. Not “when things slow down.”
Right then.

Because Masterwork doesn’t wait.
It is ongoing and dynamic.
It doesn’t ask for the perfect moment.
It asks for action.

Masterwork is the meaningful effort we put in while we’re still alive to do it.

Most people think of Legacy as what remains.
But Legacy grows out of the Masterwork we are brave enough to create now.

Masterwork is the active contribution.
Legacy is the lasting resonance.

Masterwork is a living pursuit,
built through the connections, contributions, and creations that matter now.
Not one grand final gesture,
but a lifetime of meaningful choices.

You may have no control of the Defining Jolt. But you can create your Defining Moments.

Einstein once said:

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.”

But somewhere along the way, we promoted the servant and forgot the gift.

Still, the gift speaks.

In whispers. In nudges. In those persistent shouldas:

“I really shoulda spent more time with my kids.”

“I really shoulda started that project.”

“I really shoulda slowed down and been present.”

They don’t go away.
They don’t forget us.
They’re not noise. They’re messages to pay attention.

Messages that it’s time to live aligned with what actually matters.

Because if we don’t, those shouldas become the heaviest kind of regret.
Not the ones we say out loud.
The ones we carry.

So ask:

Who do you love?
What still feels unfinished?
What already matters deeply?

Then make the call.
Start the thing.
Show up.

Not maybe.
Now.

What would it look like if you focused on your Masterwork and trusted your legacy to begin today?

P.S. Create Today, Tomorrow Depends on it.
Less ego. More wealth.
Wealth is built by saving today, not spending.
It remains hidden while you focus on securing tomorrow’s freedom.
Legacy is lasting financial strength, built from the choices you make today.
Your Masterwork is the imprint you create with intention throughout your life.
Bridge the gap between ego and income so that both Legacy and Masterwork thrive.

P.S.  See more at Masterwork360.com