Start where you are….literally…
Posted by AliJul 29
You and me could realize our dreams and goals faster than we think possible by only starting where we are right at this moment.
See, we tend to think of good things that we want and then, because they are so big and nice, do nothing about them. After all they are BIG dreams, how could they be realized at this very trivial, casual, ordinary moment, right? Well, apparently not. Most great innovations and achievements have been achieved or at least started to be realized at most ordinary, casual and seemingly un-important moment.
Ask any great engineer or architect and they will tell you most of their great achievements started in such ordinary moment. They will tell you they were talking to a friend in a restaurant and they started to write and draw things on a napkin and that napkin is now a 20 story building or such and such electronic device or even an entirely new city, think Dubai, UAE.
Every great, or even not so great for that matter, achievement starts from an idea and a set of first couple of things the owner of the idea can do to realize it. So why not write them down?(right NOW!), Why not do the first (or easiest) one now ? and then Why not think of just couple of other small chuck sized actions you can take? and only then why not doing some of those? and why not keep doing that, here is a big word, UNTIL you realize your dream? Well, of course there are NO guarantees, but what’s the alternative? UNTIL you do all of that you won’t know.
When you are on the right direction, baby steps count ~Chris Gardner
So start where you are with what you have. Favorable circumstances, supportive people, a better mood, rarely all exist when a great idea ideas and dreams are realized and achieved. So by all means start now and tomorrow shall have its own adventures.
P.S.: Why not procrastinate procrastination? There is all the time we want to procrastinate tomorrow. For today, let’s do some small steps towards a better life.
One comment
Comment by Saskia on August 2, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Hi Ali,
Yor blog is great!
I hope indeed that apart from your friends, many more people will be reading your experiences, learn from them, and share their own experiences in your blog.