How this has become a meme of late is pretty funny, but it’s absolutely true and applies to everything. Whatever you do will be difficult, it will be tough, it won’t be easy, it might look easy, but it won’t be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzDYgRc6eic&ab_channel=THEDR0N3 But nothing in life worth doing is easy, if it was easy, we’d all be doing it.
The first thing everyone wants to do when the idea goes sideways is to change. Do something different. Throw it all out. Start over. Give up. The moment those thoughts enter your mind, that is the first test of the idea’s strength, can it stand the test of being kicked, can it get knocked down and stand back up again, can it rise up. Don’t stop at the first sign of distress, this is the…
A proposed idea is easy to turn down. There hasn’t been any investment, there’s been no plus or minus, there’s no loss if you do nothing. Investing in an idea is where commitment starts to happen, even though doubts still linger – will it work?, can it work?, do they really want it?, is it worth it? what else could I be doing with my time? All those doubts start to permeate the shell of…
The easy way is to put a popup in someone’s face after they have completed working on a task. You probably won’t get the best response (especially if the task they just completed didn’t work the way they expected). It’s also not best to ask immediately after they log in (they did after all just start working and probably haven’t got to anything). Also, don’t call them from some random 800 number, everyone ignores those…
Anything can, might and will happen. But if it’s not what you want to happen, then having the mindset of “Not Today…” will help you get there. It might still happen, but the impact on you will be less, it will not hold you back. What you are saying “Not Today…” to isn’t that it will happen, but that it will not stop you.