In ‘Oh, The Places You’ll Go’, Dr. Seuss tells us with brains in our head and feet in our shoes, we can steer ourselves any direction we choose. And with that excitement and free will, comes the inevitable consequence that sometimes we’ll end in place of indecision and ‘slump’. And rather than make a decision, Seuss says …
“You can get so confused, that you’ll start in to race… …and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place… …for people just waiting”
I see Business Owners in The Waiting Place all the time. Waiting for the government to change, the economy to turn, that staff member to leave or the marketing to work. They wait for the latest IT platform, that next big special, they wait for their tax refund and they wait… waiting for the arrival of ‘perfect’ conditions… until they can wait no more. Seuss is right – the Waiting Place is a most useless place. Successful Business Owners don’t hang out in The Waiting Place. They get on with it… appropriate to current conditions. It is what it is, and it ain’t what it ain’t. And waiting for it to be different is as effective as watching the storm clouds roll in and hoping it doesn’t rain. Owning your own Business presents the ultimate opportunity to ‘OWN’ your reality. Sometimes it means tough decisions have to be made. Sometimes you need to try different things… many different things… before YOUR conditions change. But ‘waiting’ for the external conditions to change is a recipe for failure. The ONLY thing you really have control over is your OWN attitude and your OWN actions… and as a Business OWNer, choosing attitudes and actions that will get you closer to your goals is the only way to OWN the business you want. So – What are you waiting for? I’ll kick the conversation off :-) For me, I’m waiting for a lot of things… being able to see in my mind the ‘perfect’ business model of an idea I’ve been working on forever before I even start with the 80% that I know works. I’m waiting for an appointment-free, distraction-free week to write my web-copy (with 2 young kids that’s unlikely to happen this decade)… I’m waiting to understand everything I need to understand about WordPress so I don’t have to rely on others… and I’m waiting for some imaginary person to give me permission. I’m waiting to lose 10 kgs so I ‘look the part’ and I’m waiting for everything to line up ‘perfectly’. :-) So over to you… What are YOU waiting for? And what would be different if you stopped waiting?
