Just Get Started

It's quite amazing to me how easy it is to work on preparation way too long. I'm not knocking preparation...my point is that I've seen too many people delay real action in the name of preparation. Before they launch the company, before they start working, before, before, before! Delaying getting started for fear of everything being less than perfect. I guess there's something to be said for Google's starting quickly (even if it's not perfect). Honestly I can't even remember where I heard it, but the whole idea is to prepare as is necessary, but then get started. Fail yourself to success if you have to, but get started. Most things in life are not learned in the preparation phase. It's in the doing, the trying, the failing, that we learn the real lessons. I suppose that's why there's repentance worked into the whole scheme of things. Because you can't but help mess up. But in the picking yourself up, reevaluating your method and trying again that you really learn. The one thing I can't but help wonder is how many times do you need to make the same mistake before you can't learn anything else from it? Anyway, that's the mantra for the day...Just Get Started! If things don't go right...adjust. If the plan fails...rework it. Don't wait to get started until your plan is exactly perfect, or the product is perfect, or the sales pitch is perfect. Do, try, learn, improve. Oh! That reminds me I need to stretch.