If you’ve ever launched anything, you know there are plenty of gotchas to watch out for.
It’s risky to bring ideas to life, to put yourself out there, to build in public, and to share things you know will change and evolve as they grow. But if you’re someone who has ideas, a vision, and something to say, the riskiest thing you can do is to get stuck at the starting line.
It’s possible to over-prepare yourself into doing absolutely nothing.
I always think of it as wanting to run a marathon, but never leaving the starting line because you’re just not sure how things will go, what you’ll do, what people will think, and how everything will unfold.
But nothing happens at the starting line.
Everything happens once you start moving. Things break, ideas fail, you get tired, countless problems arise.
But you also get to test your ideas in the wild, see if people want what you’re creating, get a little tougher under pressure, and step into that entrepreneurial feeling of being exposed and seen.
Last weekend I came across productivity expert Tiago Forte’s analogy for getting stuck at the starting line. He compared it to sitting in your car in your driveway, waiting for all the lights in your town to turn green before pulling out.
It’s never going to happen.
The lights will never, ever, ever, all be green.
So here’s a nudge for us all:
Step outside of your comfort zone. Do the thing you’ve been too afraid to do. Tell the world about it. And get moving. Because the lights are never all green and navigating fear and failure on your way to success and manifesting your vision is what this life is all about.
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