No one is watching. Just Start. Doesn’t matter if it’s a mess. Just Start. Does it seem daunting? Just Start. Not sure where to Start? Just Start. Now, is the best day, above all days, to get started – you have no calls, no meetings, no nothing. So just, start.
If you’re going to put in the effort to make something better, to fix a problem, to build something new, to write a book. Don’t do it halfway. Don’t compromise. If you’re going to do it, make it worth the outcome you put into it. Make it worth every second so when you look back you know the value of what you did. Don’t confuse the success with sales, the success is the accomplishment.
Solutions are not delivered all at once. We lay the foundation months before, but changing how the team works. We identify what we need to research and how to solve the problem. We integrate new libraries and frameworks and develop patterns of implementation. And then we build and release dependent components and features ahead of time making sure they all come to together and function together. We build the risky first. And then when that…
Put the phone away. Focus on the moment. You spent the last 4 weeks building up to this. Enjoy every bit of it.
There are no lost causes. There is giving up on causes. But there are no lost causes. The Lost Cause does not become the problem anymore, it becomes you, not willing to figure a way out.