If you are in a season of waiting, a job you have not yet been given, a role you are working toward, a moment that is taking longer to arrive than you thought, I want to tell you something I wish I had heard more often.

The waiting is not wasted.

The waiting is where preparation happens. The lists nobody sees. The reading nobody assigns. The plans for jobs you have not been given.

Do that work. When the moment turns toward you, and it will turn, you will not be standing there empty-handed.