Many people are surprised at how hard it is to get a new idea off the ground It takes planning, persistence and patience along with constant action to accomplish this and not fail.
There are a number of reasons why entrepreneurs miss the mark. We’ll talk about three of them today.
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Do you remember this old saying, “Haste makes waste?” It certainly rolls off the tongue. But we wonder – is it still true?
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We hear all the time that we have to move fast today to gain, and maintain, a competitive advantage. So it may seem that the old saying has become outdated.
But if we move too fast, we risk making more mistakes. Now this age-old saying may not be talking about high-level mistakes, but we wondered if it could be applied in that realm. We may squander precious resources if we don’t make the right moves in the right sequence.
It doesn’t do us any good to go fast if we don’t know where we’re trying to go. Yet we often make this mistake. In our haste, we skip a step. Instead of “Ready, Aim, Fire”, we truncate it to “Ready, Fire.”
The result? We’re in perpetual motion, but the actions we take don’t move us toward the life we want to live. We waste a lot of time but see little advancement. We get tired, frustrated, and discouraged because we feel like we’re working our butts off but still not getting anywhere.
Once we’ve decided where we want to go, we do need to move fast. Because we often miss a step here too. “Ready, Aim, Aim, Aim, Aim …” doesn’t work either.
We fail to take the first step because we get scared. So we don’t get anywhere. We allow our fears to paralyze us. Then someone gets where we need to be first and we miss our bigg opportunity.
Speed and direction. We often have one without the other. But to succeed bigg, we need them both congruently.
Because as we move toward our destination, we learn about the environment we’re operating in. There may be a detour we have to take. There may be road construction we can avoid. By moving quickly, we spot these things before others so we’re able to stay ahead of them.
So speed to direction with speed for bigg success in your life!
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Thanks so much for checking in on us today. Join us next time when we discuss the art of delivering value. Until then, here’s to your bigg success!
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