The problem with learning something new is the first time you do it, it’s going to be wrong. You might be “decent” or have some “beginner’s luck” at it, but you won’t be great at it, you won’t be a master at it. You’ll simply be starting out, learning something new. And that’s where you should be, that’s why you have managers, leaders, peers, coaches, and mentors there, around you, to support you in getting…
You can start hard at the beginning, going, moving, taking hits, figuring what does and doesn’t work. You can falter in the middle, taking stumbles, the hits adding up, the confusion and frustration seeping through. But you always, always, finish strong, always giving your last push with everything you have.
Last week, we turned the clocks back – cue all the noise about Daylight Savings. The thing is everyone fell back. The question is whether you were willing to launch forward while everyone else was.
Living by a schedule works, it helps give you consistency and reproducibility in all that you do. It takes the decisions away from what you are trying to accomplish and simplifies your decision-making. When it breaks, it doesn’t go that well, you fall off, and you’re not sure what you should do next, how to do you get back on, where do you go from here. Forget the big picture of what you should do,…
Everyone can do something. But not everyone will do something. Some know the difference between those two words, but many don’t. Don’t say – “I can do it”, say – “I will do it” – own your decision, find your direction and push forward to it.