Are you preparing or procrastinating?

When you face a challenge, how do you know how much effort to put into solving it?  How do you determine whether you’re preparing or procrastinating?  When I was 21, I got sick with a complicated and poorly understood illness. After seven years homebound and bedbound, I got test results that suggested a surgery might be able to cure me. The problem? No good surgery existed.  I was neither a surgeon nor a doctor, but I was unwilling to live sick if there was a chance I could...