This baffled me for a long time.
Let’s say two people wish to make massive changes in their life.
Both talented, both passionate, both exceptional. Both have all the resources they need. Both have the acquired the learning, got the information, both have the ability, the experience and skills. Both are on equal footing.
One goes for it.
The other hasn’t. They say.
‘I haven’t done it yet?’
‘I want to but I’m not ready for that, yet.‘
‘I want to start that but I’m not sure how, yet.’
‘I’ve not got round to doing that yet.’
Are they?
- Waiting for perfection
- Scared and won’t admit it.
- Information gathers and not appliers.
- Getting bogged down in the detail.
- Full of the talk, but no action.
- Stuck in analysis paralysis.
- Waiting for permission.
- Waiting to until conditions are perfect.
- Using yet to cover up something else.
- And millions of other excuses.
The other person is:
- Making mistakes and amending as they go.
- Scared but asking for help.
- Making decisions
- Taking action
- Seeking others.
- Embracing risks.
- Exposing their vulnerabilties.
- Making the best choice at the time.
- Seeing the big picture and the end result.
- Not waiting for anyone else.
- Accepting they are unique and showing it.
- See ‘not yet’ as an excuse.
What are you not doing yet?
What’s really going on with you?
What would your life be like if you choose ‘it’s done’ over ‘not yet’?
OK, Dawn, OK. That seals it. I’m going to start my Dare project. But on Monday.
Hey lovely, how are you? Why are you not in your bed? :-) Oh, what is it. Exciting. Let me know if I can kick your butt — you can return the favour at somepoint. Alan, have a wonderful weekend, enjoy the rain! :-)
OK – here we go. I’ve decided to stop telling other people how to manage achievement, and show ’em instead. The plan is to build a business from zero to profitable in 30 days, blogging all the way. Yes you can kick my butt. I need all the kicking I can get. Starts Sunday – on my blog now.
This post hit a little close to home, for me. I tend to get bogged down in the ‘information gathering’ phase. Google is both a blessing and a curse for me. I would have a lot more product out the door if I could get past my need to “know more before I …. “. I guess that’s just a symptom of perfectionism, isn’t it?
Doing it.
Doing and learning.
Actaully I’m on stage tonight. Scared as hell. New setting for me. Hoping to enjoy it as well.
(Beause I don’t always enjoy the lessons I get. Sometimes I can only feel failure, and then it takes some time to feel the value, and even more time to be happy with it)
“That little thing, that you’ve got do before you can get to the real work. That little thing IS the real work!”