I am not ready to crown myself the greatest leader of all time. And I readily admit that I don't necessarily do this on purpose, but...in his book "The Management Gurus: Lessons from the Best Management Books of all Time" Chris Lauer writes about the importance of generating small wins. And that is something I do.
He writes "leaders should dream big, but start small. Dream big about crossing that enormous cosmos to find some new world but start small with a few short journeys to test your theories and abilities".
I have found myself telling more than one person, on more than one occasion, that I am not trying to conquer the world. Now don't get me wrong here. I have big plans for Bravo but I also know that have those dreams realized it needs to be slow grow. Deliberate, slow, methodical and planned. One project at a time, one client at a time.
I would think for anyone starting a business this would be sage advice.
Why is "generate small wins" important for me? I think one of the reasons that people never go after their dreams is because they think everything has to be perfectly in place in order for them to get started. Not me. I see the first time I do anything--a new workshop, a new presentation, any new idea as a trial run. I have to. If I required perfection I would never get started.
And so I approach everything I do as adding one small win to my win category knowing that in time, those small wins will accumulate and start snowballing into the big wins I lay in bed at night and plan out in my head.
All great stories have a moral and mine is this: if you are keeping from going after your dreams because you think everything should be PERFECT take a deep breath, tell yourself "perfection is not the goal" and then get started.
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