Now – you need to work on this, this is what you need to get done to move forward and be successful. Later – is what you need to do in the long-term, the big idea, the thing that is going to continue making you successful. The Later can’t be done Now because it’s too big, and the Now can’t be done Later it’s a gap filler and not a strategy. One gets you over…
Getting it right requires measuring twice and cutting once. It’s about making mistakes and going back to try again to be better. It’s about the bugs coming in and the updates going out. Not everyone wants to get it right because it means realizing you have work to do and that work never end. But many people do, and those are the people you want on your team.
Maybe make a plan (I do this from time to time). Writing it down helps (I heard and have tried). Committing to a schedule (yes this is definitely great). Get a support group (this never helped me too much). Break it into smaller tasks and when you’ve mastered one task, move on to the next (this helps greatly). Always keep challenging yourself with variations on what you are doing (prevents falling into a mold). But…
I think one of the hardest parts about meetings isn’t that we have to attend them, or that they could have been an email or that so many people were invited to them. It’s when we spend all that time in them, with no outcome determined and no next steps to happen. It’s then that we leave wondering – why was I here?
Want to show how good you are at something? Want people to see how good you are? Show them how much you love it. Even if it doesn’t go your way, what’s the worst that happened? You showed them how much you love it and that will never change.