Truth. Keep climbing. Our world needs you. Photo: From yesterday’s flight.
Warning, this post is not short and pithy, but the rest of today’s are.
Being in a position to solve important and interesting problems is a privilege.
The only way you find yourself interested in a problem though is if it aligns with your passion(s).
And then there’s…
The first, difficult, and potentially catalytic task for solving an important problem….
Calling it out.
This can embarrass and anger people – usually unintentionally.
You know, speaking up about what could be better when no one has a clueright now how to make it better.
Most people sense the world’s America’s biggest problems, take obesity or the divorce rate, for example.
But big issues are easy to ignore.
Why?
Because they’re hard.
So we stall, we wait, and we do nothing.
Before any real work gets started, we convince ourselves we need:
Certainty
Easy answers
A quick fix
A guarantee
If we need any of those things, we’re making excuses not to start. The search for quick, easy, guaranteed and certain results will undermine our creativity to begin.
And without the first steps, the next steps, and the ones after that, well, they never get taken.
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Metaphorical example of midlife crisis shortly before we fall to our knees.
Working at the beach epiphany…
When you reach a point where you just want to scream or fall apart, the next step after rethinking everything is deciding how badly you want to change.
And the epiphany is this:
It’s the same thing when i talk to a CEO, “How bad do you want it?”
You have to want it.
Nothing is more important than wanting it.
Without the declaration of “whatever it takes”, change will not happen.
Wish i had better news, but that’s the reality.
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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.
