A lack of action guarantees 100% probability that absolutely nothing new has a chance of happening.
None of us, not a single one of us, can predict what will or won’t happen tomorrow.
You have to risk the next unknown step.
No one knows if they’re going to become the next
- Steve Jobs
- ProBlogger
- TED speaker
- Entrepreneur on the cover of Wired Magazine
- NY Times Best Selling Author
- Grammy winning Musician
- Surf wear designer
We should go for it anyway.
We don’t have to:
- Know where it is going to finish
- Have a five-year plan
- Know what shape it is going to take
- Wait for permission
- Have a budget
- Know how to do it
- Know all the right people
We do need to:
- Swing for the fence not for a single
- Risk embarrassment and rejection
- Tune out negative people
- Believe in ourselves
- Try something different when we get stuck
We are guaranteed to:
- Meet interesting people
- Feel alive again
- Have new experiences that will stretch you
- Never regret that you tried
- Learn a lot about yourself
They are just like us
They too faced doubt, challenges, discouragement, slim moments of hope, but they went for it anyway.
Get out your pom-poms and your list of excuses.
You’re going to want to cheer, cry tears of joy and cross off every excuse you’ve entertained.
Mike Field
Artist, Waterman, after 15+ years as a painter and designer M. Field was announced last week as Quiksilver’s newest beach wear clothing line.
Ask Mike what he knew about apparel design 18 months ago?
Ask Mike how confident he was that he was going to be on the big stage with brands like DC, Hawk and Roxy?
Tweet this to @Quiksilver and congratulate them.
Listen to our Podcast interview last year when this was just kicking off.
He’s just like us.
Pam Slim
Author, Blogger, Career Coach
Just published her second book, Body of Work (book review coming soon) after she escaped corporate consulting to go out on her own.
Ask Pam if she knew Guy Kawasaki was going to promote her now famous letter to CEO’s, COO’s and CIO’s?
Ask her if she thought that the blog she created in a computer class would be read by hundred’s of thousands of readers each year?
Her adventurous story Podcast.
She’s just like us.
Tess Vigeland
Broadcaster, Author, Finance guru.
Jumped without a net after 11 years as a leading host of National Public Radio weekly show-Marketplace.
Ask Tess how easy it’s been some days getting up each day embracing the unknown?
Ask her if she ever thought a fifteen-minute speech to 3000 people would have changed her life forever?
Ask her if she believed she’d get a book deal two weeks later?
More on Tess’s journey.
She’s just like us.
Jackopierce
Jack O’Neill & Cary Pierce
Dads, Musicians, Entrepreneurs.
Started rocking together in 1988 in central Texas.
Two decades later, ask these two musicians if they thought they’d get a second shot at the big show?
How about a recording contract in Nashville?
Give a listen to some of their tunes.
They are just like us.
Nilofer Merchant
Author, Speaker, Corporate Director
After her long tech career at silicon valley giants like Apple, Nilofer earned her spot next to U2’s Bono at this year’s TED2013.
Ask her if she thought she’d be featured in the Harvard Business Review after writing a break-out article about how sitting is killing us?
Now (among many things) she’s the messenger of Walking Meetings.
Podcast interview from a cafe in the valley.
She’s just like us.
Mario Schultzke
Founder of IdeaMensch
After a 50 state road tour on a shoestring budget, armed with only a MacBook Pro, and a US map; IdeaMensch has now helped bring over 2000 entrepreneurs ideas to light.
Ask Mario how confident he felt when tomorrow night’s next Meet Up had zero tickets sold?
Ask him how easy it’s been doing his now day job at the University of Montana and running IdeaMensch?
Listen to Mario’s nine lessons that every entrepreneur should know.
He’s just like us.
Todd Henry
Author, Podcaster, Consultant, Creative.
Ask Todd about how he accidentally became one of iTunes top business podcasts by faithfully recording his ideas every week since 2007?
Ask him how much caution he received over his latest best-selling business book title “Die Empty” Who wants to read about death Todd?
He’s just like us.
Jeff Goins
Tribe Leader, Author, Mega Blogger
Ask @JeffGoins if he thought he’d be speaking side-by-side with Michael Hyatt at his Platform conferences when he cold called him to have coffee?
Ask him if while he was leading mission trips he thought he’d build a Mega Blog in less than two years time?
Podcast early in the upward trend.
He’s just like us.
What are you not doing today that you wish you were?
Come on…tell us.
Keep going.
