Was I over committing or was my calculator wrong? For the most part, we start a new project or decide on a new goal, we always underestimate the effort and grit to get
there.
This can be most disturbing. When you underestimate the effort to get somewhere, you will undoubtedly get discouraged and immediately start to list out reasons for failure. Or in some things I have read, we start lower in our goals and targets to make us happy. Doing this is a subtle way of dooming yourself. After you have lowered your targets, you have lost your dreams. Is this the fight with ourselves that everyone talks about?
In another item I came across, instead of looking at the effort to obtain success as a mountain to climb, why done we just look at it as “is that all I have to do!”. So, you can see there are 2 camps, at least in my mind, you can have. What’s you dominate view?
A common thing in starting a business, project or venture is to have a plan. For the most part, we
should not call it a plan. For me a plan has some kind of “total List” feel to it.
Maybe we should just call these “A short list”. We can never foresee the variables that will
happen, and certainly don’t want those unseen items to change from “speed bumps” to “road out”. When we commit to a project I am reminded of the movie “an Officer and a gentleman” and the scene
where “I Got Nowhere Else to Go”. Is that the same as burning bridges behind us?
Carl
