Covering your ass

If things don't move the way you want them to, you turn into a relentless machine pointing fingers at everyone and everything around you:

The client hasn't replied to my email yet, so I'm left hanging…
My superior didn't give me enough information for me to finish the report…
What he wants is impossible, so let him deal with it, I'll just do what I was told to do…
They still haven't called me up, I don't want to impose anything…
I'm not making the first move, he should be the one to do it. Isn't that the way things should be…

This and that… this and that… this and that… You see a pattern don't you?

Staying put is staying putNo matter how much you know about how unfair the world is, how much you despise the garbage that's thrown to you, or how worthwhile you are compared to the mindless and idiotic inhabitants of the space around you, it will always be the same everyday of your life if you don't do anything to change it.

Have you tried other means of communication?
He might just be waiting for you to come up with things on your own.
So why not thing of something that is possible?
Initiative is needed
If it needs to be done, you don't have to wait for someone else to take ownership

Just deliver the goods
It traces back to you, everything you don't do and do, it traces back to you. It's not "I've done everything I can" until you've exhausted all possibilities. Expecting different results from the same thing over and over again, without the mind and heart to even look beyond what presently hinders progress is just short of being insane. If your were tasked to do something, you wouldn't just do it, you would make sure that it will be done. What comes out your mouth if that something doesn't work out are excuses.

It would be much better if you did everything in your power to do something and fail. You'd cover your ass better from guilt better.