When we tell ourselves stories about why we aren’t ready to level up, we need to be sure to avoid no-win scenarios. When in doubt, trust your success pack more than you trust your self-doubts. Your success pack sees more clearly that either the inverse is true or at least that the distribution is not so negatively weighted. When we think about the mission ahead, we often overweight our weaknesses and make them about our character, and underestimate our strengths and make them about luck. While it’s not true 100% of the time, your success pack is usually right. All too often, your success pack knows you’re prepared, and, in those places where you’re not, they’re prepared to help you. Is it yours? Or is it someone else’s?Īnd then contrast that with what your naysayers and success pack say and think. When you encounter a situation where you know that you’re truly prepared, then you may need to think about whose voice is in your head that’s not letting you take that next step. And once you know this, it makes it a lot harder to take the safer route. That means that there may be a hard conversation (or two) that you don’t want to have, but the harder the conversation, the more you’ll know that it’s likely the courageous option and the one that is imperative for your growth. The world needs people taking the more courageous next step. The world doesn’t need more people with great ideas, or more people with potential. So when you’re deciding between the two options, choose the one that requires more courage. When answering honestly, most people will have dramatically different answers. Reminder: when you’re faced with different options or scenarios, ask yourself these two questions: being prepared, being courageous is an important aspect to keep in mind. So when it comes to the concept of being ready vs. Having courage is one of the five keys I’ve discussed when overcoming your air sandwich. You just have to have the courage to jump and the faith in yourself to know that you can figure it out as you go. You can spend years, even decades, waiting to be ready and be in exactly the same spot for all of those years. You may think you aren’t ready for the level-up because you don’t have quite as much expertise as someone else who’s done it before, you haven’t been in the game long enough, or you’ll wait until next week, next month, or next quarter for… whatever reason you’ve come up with today.īeing prepared means that you’ve done the work, and you’re at the point where no more research and advice is going to tell you what to do. When many people think of being ready, what they’re thinking about is being emotionally ready. (Tip o’ the hat to Seth for drawing the prepared/ready distinction in Leap First.) When we think about what the next step is that needs to be done to level up our work, our teams, or our business, we often think of if we are - or are not - ready for it, rather than if we are prepared for it.
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