Is preparation - prevention or promotion of procrastination?
It is essential to think about what you want to do, figure out how long, the cost, the time it will take, the outcome, and of course what you are going to need to do in order to achieve your goal. But there are 2 sides to preparation:
All preparation precedes action but too much preparation prevents it....
Are you guilty of spending all your time "preparing" to do, but never get around to starting? Is it because you think you don't know enough to begin, you just need to do a bit more research and then you will start ....
You can over cook an idea you know and you do that by not begining where you are right now. Jack Canfield perhaps said it best when he said that any goal is like driving a car through the night, you can only see a couple of hundred yards ahead, but you know the road will unfold as you go along. Most goals are like that road journey - so begin, enjoy the detours (if you take them) but don't let preparation ruin a good idea.
If you do begin now - don't worry whether you have got it all right, because take any car journey - if you are the driver, you will need to make adjustments as you travel- you will change gears, you will get stuck in roadblocks and snarl ups and you will find yourself driving down one way streets - usually the wrong way - but you know what - you can always turn back, you can correct as you go along, you can change course completely - and yes you can enjoy every single detour along the way because you do know the ultimate destination.
So don't get stuck in endless preparation - too much preparation prevents action.
December 2, 2009 at 21:20
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Elle