Monday Motivation Matters: Jump 1st, Build the Plane On the Way Down
A few days ago we were doing through the answers to interview questions we sent to beauty business owners. It surprised me to see that for almost every single one of them when asked about advice they had for upcoming entrepreneurs, the answer was basically the same – “Just start”!.
It’s funny to think that these 2 words – “Just Start”, as simple and unassuming as they seem, can carry so much weight. Just. Start. It almost seems to simple to be true, and too easy to possibly be correct. I mean, how could it be that easy.
But the truth is, the key behind getting what you want is starting. Actually, the key behind getting anything done in life, at all, is starting. You’ll sink if you don’t swim, you’ll starve if you don’t eat, you’ll die if you don’t move. In fact, to give you a better idea of what ‘not moving can cause’, patients who enter into a coma, often suffer muscle atrophy i.e loss of muscle mass. This is because they remain inactive for so long that the muscles start to deteriorate by themselves. And the bitter truth is, a lot of people today, entrepreneurs or not, are crippled by fear-induced comas.
Fear, in all its bravado, had crippled people from starting. It tells them its scary to start; you don’t have enough capital; you’re not ready; it will fail; everyone else is doing it; do it tomorrow. Fear partners up with procrastination and renders people stagnant long enough that they no longer want to move and only see moving as something that equals danger because of what fear has told them. But you can’t stay there. How do you make this happen – Just Start.
News flash – it will be hard. It will knock the wind out of your guts. You will struggle. You will cry and have sleepless nights. You may even wish you never started. But all those feelings are designed to fortify you and not break you down. They’re meant to knock all the weaknesses out of you to make you a formidable example of what excellence looks like. Diamonds are made under pressure. Gold requires intense heat. Trees need pruning.
Our charge to you today is to just start. No matter what fear says to you, do it anyway. Do it even while you’re afraid and scared. Jump off the cliff and build the plane on the way down – you have what it takes, you just don’t know it yet.
