Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Just keep doing it
Someone I talked to today mentioned a curious fact about people's reaction to his love of running. They ask him, "How do you run such long distances?"
He says, "I just put one foot in front of the other again and again and again and just keep doing it until I get to where I want to be."
They usually look at him puzzledly and say, "That's all? Isn't there more to it than that?"
People like to think of difficult feats as, well, more dramatic than that, as coming from some simple secret that, once revealed, makes the whole process fall into place without effort.
People looking to start a business often fall into the same trap. They look at the goal of a successful business and hope to find some simple secret that makes reaching that goal a snap.
The fact is that there is no simple secret. Unless you do what my friend does with running and "put one foot ahead of the other again and again and again and just keep doing it until you get to where you want to be."
The secret is in taking one step after another after another after another day by day toward reaching your goal. And the secret is to just keep doing that until you get to where you want to be. It's not dramatic. But it works.
Jeff
Someone I talked to today mentioned a curious fact about people's reaction to his love of running. They ask him, "How do you run such long distances?"
He says, "I just put one foot in front of the other again and again and again and just keep doing it until I get to where I want to be."
They usually look at him puzzledly and say, "That's all? Isn't there more to it than that?"
People like to think of difficult feats as, well, more dramatic than that, as coming from some simple secret that, once revealed, makes the whole process fall into place without effort.
People looking to start a business often fall into the same trap. They look at the goal of a successful business and hope to find some simple secret that makes reaching that goal a snap.
The fact is that there is no simple secret. Unless you do what my friend does with running and "put one foot ahead of the other again and again and again and just keep doing it until you get to where you want to be."
The secret is in taking one step after another after another after another day by day toward reaching your goal. And the secret is to just keep doing that until you get to where you want to be. It's not dramatic. But it works.
Jeff
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