Start Even If Your Ducks Are Not in a Row
Start Even If Your Ducks Are Not in a Row
By David Salmon
Getting your ducks in a row, as in having everything figured out before you start on something, is generally a good idea. But with life the way it is the theory doesn’t always work in practice. In real life we often have to start something without having all the information at our fingertips. Some of our ducks may not just be out of line, but missing altogether.
Sometimes life moves so fast that the best we can do is gather enough information to make an educated guess. Sometimes we have no information at all and have to rely in gut instinct.
Information and research are reassuring. They are useful, often essential, but other times we can use them as an excuse to procrastinate. We keep waiting to make a decision until we have just one more piece of information and end up missing the opportunity entirely. Sometime you just have to take action without some of your ducks.
Sometimes just by starting something we find information that we need in the process. Often you can only learn the essentials by doing. Experience can be more valuable than any amount of research. That doesn’t mean to say we shouldn’t read up on a subject. We just must decide when to stop reading and start doing.
Some people tend to jump into things headlong with little or no information, while others never start because they are too busy collecting and collating information. The secret is to find the happy medium. Taking time to research other people’s experiences can accelerate things once you are in the process yourself. You can always learn from others, but you also learn a lot just by doing.
Coaching
Each of us has to decide for ourselves how much information we need before we are comfortable starting something new. Finding our own comfort level is a great help, but we must identify the point where we have enough information to get started and then move to action. We can still read more as we go, so there is no reason to use information gathering as an excuse not to start.
Discover your own comfort level but also accustom yourself to different amounts of information. In this world information isn’t hard to gather; the problem is usually that there is too much. It is all too easy to get bogged down in overload.
Is an overload or lack of information stopping you from getting started on a project you want to do? Why not get started with the ducks you have and get them in a row as you go along.
Quotes
“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.” Flannery O’Connor
“Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.” Peter Ustinov
“Despite the continuing expansion or even explosion of information, there will forever be limits beyond which the devices of science cannot lead a man.” June Singer
“Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.” Ray E. Brown
David Salmon
David is a property investment and a life coach with over 20 years experience in the world of property, finance and Mentoring. He has also written with Brian Tracy”Wake up… moments of inspiration ” book. For more information on how to receive your FREE newsletter from David J. Salmon’s Wealth Creation and Personal Development TODAY log on to http://www.davidjsalmon.co.uk/blog/
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