What I know for sure… Leap and the Net Will Appear
I used to be a dreamer. I would sit on the phone with friends, thinking up some wonderful things to do. I came up with several wonderful proposals for programs for young people. I wrote out plan after plan for things I wanted to accomplish. I would give myself deadlines and I even got one of those huge post it pads that stick on the wall and wrote affirmations, strategic business plans and creative ideas. I was a wealth of good ideas. So much so, that one of the businesses my best friend and I came up with, was a consulting firm called Good Ideas! I was unstoppable. Well… almost!
The problem was, I very seldom acted on any of those good ideas. I needed a team of people to help me. I couldn’t take these tasks on alone. I called in people to help. I was so great at finding people who had skills, talent and pure genius. What I was not good at was finding people with drive and the will to finish the projects I had in mind. Defeated by what I thought was a lack of enthusiasm, I went out and completed a few tasks with the 1 or 2 folks who showed up out of the blue and were willing to help. I went out and accomplished a few of the tasks on the list and went back to the same group saying “See what is possible, come on.” We met, we planned, we talked and we went home. Deflated yet again, I tried another task. I went out on an unofficial speaking tour, I met a new friend who became my booking agent and ended up on a full fledged book tour. That led to college appearance, acting gigs, movie productions and a host of new people to accomplish those things with. I went back to the old gang to bring them in one last time… and something occurred to me. I had the team I needed to accomplish those goals already.
What I know for sure… is if you leap, the net will appear. I was stuck on thinking that what I wanted for my old friends was what they wanted for themselves. What I projected onto them, only created resentment and stagnation. But, when I went out and started the process of actually doing what I said I wanted to do… all of the people who were supposed to be there to help… were there. Every single time!
