Link: The Law of Implementation
Armand Morin on his Marketing Internet Blog has a nice short post where he shares an excellent principle:
The faster you take an idea from concept to reality, the more likely you are to succeed with it.
Great advice to remember, especially for an ideas guy like me who can get half a dozen at one go, but doesn’t find it as easy to carry them all to fruition.
I agree that a key to self management is self esteem. I would offer that true life inspiration happens when you find something you love to do and make it a part of your everyday experience. Here’s an exercise:
1. Write down 10 things you love to do or that bring you the most joy. I call this the “You List”
2. Then record how many times a day you do one of the things on your list
3. Give each day of the week a rating from 1-10
4. Your best day usually comes out to be the day you do the most things on your “You List”
I can easily relate to the first part of the story, in the past I was one of those people pretending you have done something and then be very uncomfortable when someone asks more detailed questions.
It is not a good feeling and being upfront from the beginning really saves you the embarassment later.