Action

The beginning is half of every action.

~Greek Proverb

 

 

Think of someone you know that you see as “successful”. Someone who you even envy a little bit- in a good way. The person you look at and think,  “I wish my life could be more like that”

 

Now, how did they get there?

 

They DID something. They took ACTION.

 

Next question- is there some result that you want that you aren’t getting?  If not, why not?

 

Could the answer be LACK of ACTION?

 

For a lot of us, this is the answer- if we are honest with ourselves!

 

I know that some of you are thinking something like:

 

“OK, but I can’t get started because I don’t know what to do”

 

You know what? No matter what your reason for not getting started is- there is somebody out there who did what you would like to do, despite whatever your reason is.

 

We have been trained by society to believe a BIG LIE: that, before we start something, we have to know exactly how to do it!

 

We believe we must have the entire plan laid out

 

In a way, this isn’t our fault. After all, we are trained this way by society.

 

We spend most of our formative years in school, where the teachers lay out for us exactly how things are to be done. Deviate from that plan- and risk being labeled a TROUBLEMAKER

 

As we move up in school, we expect to be handed a syllabus that has everything laid out.

 

Then we get a job. And we expect to be given a job description. We look for the policies and procedures to tell us what to do.

 

No wonder we lose the ability to think for ourselves.

 

But consider this:

Did Thomas Edison have a syllabus or a lab manual about how to make a light bulb?

Did Bill Gates have policies and procedures about how to build a huge company?

Did the Wright brothers have a syllabus for how to build and fly a plane?

 

 

These people, like all great innovators, did one thing: they took action. And not just once. But they used each step to learn, and to refine what they were doing. They learned a bunch of things that DIDN’T work. And they used that information to figure out what DID work.

 

Most of us, if we even try at all, will find a couple ways that our idea doesn’t work, and they give up.

 

Most of us can’t imagine we will ever be a great innovator. Maybe that’s not even the goal. But, if we want to accomplish something, we can take a lesson from the great innovators.

 

And the Greeks.

Take the first action

 

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