Your first step is always going to be a "yes" moment, so you have to prepare yourself to say yes to it.
Very nicely said. For whatever reason what you wrote reminds me this movie. I think you will recognize when you start reading it.
“No maybe I can't win. Maybe the only thing I can do is just take everything he's got. But to beat me he's gonna have to kill me, and to kill me he's gotta have the guts to stand in front of me, and to do that he's gotta be willin to die himself. I don't know if he's ready to do that. I don't know. I don't know.”