People who are stuck in a particular area of their lives tend to talk about that area in a particular pattern: Have Do,
‘I've used this pattern in my own life plenty of times, each time reliably staying stuck in neutral despite my grand visions.
For example: First I need to have a lot of money so that then I can spend more time painting, and finally become an artist.
‘I've used this pattern in my own life plenty of times, each time reliably staying stuck in neutral despite my grand visions.
First I need to hit this quarterly revenue number, then I can focus on building a customer centric business and finally doing some good for the industry.
First I need to close this financing, then I can focus on making our employees happy and being the kind of leader I know I can be.
This logical process is natural. It is also toxic, in that it places an impossibility (having something you don't) as a condition for progress, thereby justifying indefinite procrastination.
Life, and business, at its most dynamic and most successful works the exact opposite: Be Do Have,
First I will recognize that I am an artist. Right now, this moment, ‘Then as an artist I will paint. Right now. And then, eventually, I'll become successful and make a lot of money.
First I will be the best kind of leader I can be, From that place, I will make the decisions that are in keeping with my best form of leadership, and the quarterly revenue numbers and closed financing rounds will follow,
