Category: Leadership

If You’re Going to Try

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If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you’ll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it.  All the way. All the way. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.

Roll the Dice

by Charles Bukowski

Are You Waiting Your Turn?

MattLeave a Comment on Are You Waiting Your Turn?

I’ll be honest. I’ve thought about starting this thing for quite a while now. But until today I hadn’t. I was waiting my turn. ‘Surely, the people out there blogging today are much more qualified and experienced than I. What can i say that hasn’t already been said? What do I want to say?’ I thought, that in a few years, when I had more experience I would be ‘ready’ to take on this challenge. But as time went on, I began examining my rationale and realized that it didn’t make sense.

I was overlooking the unique voice that I could bring to the conversation today. My experience, while perhaps similar to others was still quite unique. That was my strength. Not the subject matter – The analysis of it.

So that’s my question to you. Are you (or your company) waiting your turn or sitting on the bench because the field is too crowded?  Ask yourself why and you might find out it’s not because of anything others are doing, it’s because you aren’t looking at what you (and only you) can do.