We often approach new ideas full of enthusiasm, but the bigger or more complex the undertaking or project, the more obstacles we encounter on the way to the goal. With every challenge, the likelihood increases that we’ll let the idea, the undertaking, or the project go again. It starts to feel tedious, exhausting, (self-)doubt creeps in. All around us lurk people who seem to be just waiting to say, “I told you that wouldn’t work.”
And too often we let ourselves get discouraged by outside circumstances, stop before we really know whether it would have worked, give in to that inner voice telling us to quit, and lose ourselves again in the daily grind or the hamster wheel.
However, an idea that was never implemented can’t be judged as having failed. And even after implementation, it’s usually small levers that have a decisive influence on whether something succeeds or fails.
But many people never even get to that point, because they abandon ideas, projects, and undertakings long before then — they don’t fail, they give up.
Think about it for a moment:
How many ideas do you have daily, weekly, monthly, yearly?
How many of them do you actually set out to pursue?
Of the ones you wanted to implement, how many did you actually implement?
Of the ones you implemented, how many were successful or not?
What exactly contributed to that success or failure?
Reflect on your actions. Draw lessons learned for yourself. If needed, talk about it with like-minded people to generate new perspectives and insights for yourself. And make a decision about how you want to handle new ideas, undertakings, and projects in the future, to make sure it’s not simply giving up.
Have fun with it…
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