If you have a goal, ambition, bucket list item, or skill you’ve always dreamed of learning, please take a ten second break right now and answer this question:

What is the first step I would need to take to begin?

You’ll probably be surprised to discover that it’s absurdly easy:

Google “Clarinet lessons in Leicester”
Drive to the store and get some running shoes
Research flights to Kenya

A common reason we don’t accomplish big objectives is because we don’t start, and the reason we don’t start is because we gaze off to the finish line and begin to envisage all the obstacles or challenges we might face along the way. 

We start to strategise and analyse, and before we know it we’re so overwhelmed by the imaginary journey ahead that we just do nothing instead. 

The solution is to recognise this: you build momentum by building momentum, as my friend Csaba Konkoly likes to say. 

One easy step, then the next, then the next. Before you know it the boulder is moving and the obstacles get crushed underneath it.

Now…given how easy that first step is, maybe just take it today and see what happens.

#mindset #learning #enterpreneurship

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