“The Power of Leadership”
Today’s “Thought” comes from Dan Kennedy’s book the No B.S. Business Success Guide.
Success is Mostly a Matter of Decision: A relationship that succeeds or fails, a book that gets written or remains a jumble of notes in a drawer, a garage that gets cleaned out on a Saturday or gets put off until next week – these are all the result of decision and determination to make the decision right. Making the right decisions is often a lot less important than determining to make your decisions right. Only by making a decision and acting on it can you get into action and move forward. By waiting to make only the perfect decisions, you remain inert and cannot move forward at all. To quote my friend, Gary Halbert, “Motion beats meditation.”
Most people go through life making decisions by default, choosing only from narrow options dictated by others or by evolving circumstances. Successful entrepreneurs learn to be more assertive, proactive, and creative in making decisions to change things as they prefer, to make things happen. If you are to succeed as an entrepreneur, you have to break free of your old reacting and responding mode and switch to the assertive, proactive mode. You have to reject the whole idea of limited choices.
As an entrepreneur, you need to reject every single piece of programming you’ve ever received about limited options or prerequisites for exercising certain options. For example, you probably believe that certain options exist only for people with particular educations, licenses, or certifications. Sure, you can’t just up and declare yourself a heart surgeon or an airplane pilot. But you certainly can be a CEO, and you certainly can make as much money as you choose.
“It is easier to blame conditions, circumstances, or others than to blame your own philosophy.” – Jim Rohn
Health and happiness to you,
Shawn
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Shawn,
Great post.
I agree that when the reason for inaction is based on self-doubt or fear of failure, it can be best to adopt a “what’s the worst that could happen?” attitude. Forward movement helps break the inertia.
But what about those times when you *have* been attempting forward motion, only to be continually blocked in your attempts? When I encounter those situations, I take a step back and ask myself if I’m pushing too hard. Maybe there’s a reason for the lack of forward motion. Sometimes even just a break of a few hours (or days) reveals a new path or decision; one that I’d been too hurried to see.
Good Post and a good thought, Jennifer, thank you!
I have had success personnally with mind mapping my way through and have often been blessed with group masterminding resources to guide new approach.
But, Dan does also warn in this book about the entreprenuer being too driven for success on their idea to admit an error before throwing too much time effort and money at it. More reasoning I suppose for a trusted mastermind group.
Thanks again…