We are living in the Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age) and we have access to so much information via websites, social media, online courses, apps and sooo much more. But it isn’t our lack of knowledge that stops us from having the results we desire. In fact it may actually be hindering us.
Self-development, personal growth, Kaizen (continuous improvement) however you want to put it, we definitely need to be learning and stretching our comfort zones continuously, but like we spoke about in Monday Memo #04 – Blessing and a Curse, it can also stop us from doing the things we need to do to succeed.
It is not something that we think about very often or even stop to ask ourselves, but moving forward a question we need to ask ourselves is “Why haven’t I just started?”
Some of us continuously feel like we are always on the starting line for our goals, still researching the best way, still asking ourselves “is this the best way to do this?” and for those of us that feel stuck on that starting line there is a really simple answer.
We are to worried about the result!
We want to go from where we are to the finish line in one big step and we get too caught up on looking for different ways, or what “hacks” have work for others or we want to know more and more and more, but we end up standing still or what we call Marking time (which is a military step in which soldiers march in place, moving their legs as in marching, but without stepping forward) and there is nothing more frustrating than marking time!
What we need to do is focus on the process or adopting a process-oriented mindset, understanding that the small steps forward in the right direction are big wins in disguise because when they all come together they will have created the result we desired.
So making the shift from knowledge seeker/ plan maker and understand that we need to be an action taker as well.
Knowing the small first steps required to move forward and taking them, with the understanding that the knowledge we acquire as we are taking those steps forward and learning from experience, will help us craft the plan and adapt it where necessary as we are moving.
However without momentum or any action being taken we are paralysed by analysis or what we like to call analysis paralysis and remember knowledge and understanding without execution is delusion!
So let’s keep challenging ourselves and be lifetime learners, but do it as we move towards the life we desire.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
“Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
So ask yourself where in your life are you paralysed right now, and why?
Have an awesome week,
Kris Mac
