One more step in the right direction
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Yesterday I talked about the power of starting before you feel 100% ready. Today I want to highlight how important it is to keep going once you start.
Yesterday I talked about the power of starting before you feel 100% ready. Today I want to highlight how important it is to keep going once you start.
I had coffee with the founder and CEO of South Africa’s largest Salesforce consultancy a few weeks ago. He explained one of the hallmarks of his endeavors has been to simply keep going when most people would have quit.
It’s in our human nature to overestimate what we can achieve in a day and to grossly underestimate what we can achieve in a year.
So while many look for that perfect moment to start and others look for silver bullets, the true achievers are just taking one more step in the right direction. Shane Parish put it well in a recent tweet:
“Outcomes are a function of ordinary actions performed repeatedly over a long period of time. If you find yourself chasing secrets, shortcuts, or complicated you’re on the wrong track.”
If key number one is to simply start, then key number two is to simply keep going. None of this guarantees success, but it gives your ideas and ambitions a fighting chance.
#patience
#practice
#progress
I had coffee with the founder and CEO of South Africa’s largest Salesforce consultancy a few weeks ago. He explained one of the hallmarks of his endeavors has been to simply keep going when most people would have quit.
It’s in our human nature to overestimate what we can achieve in a day and to grossly underestimate what we can achieve in a year.
So while many look for that perfect moment to start and others look for silver bullets, the true achievers are just taking one more step in the right direction. Shane Parish put it well in a recent tweet:
“Outcomes are a function of ordinary actions performed repeatedly over a long period of time. If you find yourself chasing secrets, shortcuts, or complicated you’re on the wrong track.”
If key number one is to simply start, then key number two is to simply keep going. None of this guarantees success, but it gives your ideas and ambitions a fighting chance.
#patience
#practice
#progress