A
thought by John C. Maxwell (2015-10-06) from his book, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters (p. 11).
Center Street. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title of the book to go to
Amazon.com to buy the book.)
That thought
blows away an excuse we use over and over.
I can’t do that. I wish I could but I'm not good at it.
But we do anything to
keep from starting something new and we waist the opportunities that are out there
for us.
John says, “To
put significance in our stories, we must also take action. Being passive may
feel safe. If you do nothing, nothing can go wrong. But while inaction cannot
fail, it cannot succeed either. We can wait, and hope, and wish, but if we do,
we miss the stories our lives could be.”
He then
says, “Let me help you by telling you something you need to know. You won’t do
well the first time you do anything. You don’t know what you’re doing when you
start. Nobody is good at the beginning of doing something new. Get over it… If
you want to live a life that matters, don’t start when you get good; start now
so you become good. I’ve never known a star athlete who started out good. All
start out as beginners, and with practice, some become good. Others become
great.”
Again, “Everyone
starts out bad, regardless of what they’re practicing for. We start so we can
improve. We start before we’re ready
because we need and want to get better. The idea is to deliver our best each
time we try until one day, we become good. And then one day, we may even have a
chance to be great. That’s growth. But we can’t evolve if we don’t start.”
“But we
can’t evolve if we don’t start.”
So what is
you are going to start doing?
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