It sits there on the edge of your desk. You’ve pushed it off (physically) many times before. But then you pick it up and put it right back on the edge. It’s the code that works that no one knows how but now they need to change. You don’t touch that code, that code should never be modified, it should be left alone forever. But it can’t, you have to dive in, you have to…
If we gave up on stuff not working the first time, no one on the planet would ever be walking. At that point in time though, it wasn’t ingrained in you to give up, you simply hefted yourself back up on the couch and tried again. Forget the noise, forget what you think your failure is, forget what went wrong. Get up and take that first step again… and again… and again…
Your Strategy is where you want to go. Your Tactics are how you are going to get there. Your Tactics can change as you learn, stumble, fail, and achieve. But your strategy should always remain the same. Another way to think of it – your strategy is what drives you and pushes you to achieve a goal, your tactics are what will make it happen.
The hardest part of building a team is building those you delegate to, who you lean on, and who you bounce ideas off of. In any team, building a bench is the first thing you need to do, it is also the hardest thing to do. You might not have it in place on Day 1, it might take multiple days, that’s okay – because when it does happen, when it clicks, it will be…
What you accomplish speaks volumes louder than what you say you are going to accomplish. Everyone wants to succeed, some want to talk about their success. But the ones that succeed aren’t talking, they are sitting down, doing the work, and waiting for what they build to speak for them. Do the work or talk about it.