Ready is a sign of weakness.
Here we are in August. I never liked it when people asked me “are you ready for school to start again?” Part of it was summer was over. Most of it was WTF does that mean? We bought pencils. I had a backpack. I was going to be in a new part of the school with a new teacher with different kinds of classes with new students. NO! I wasn’t ready for school.
I asked a friend how to know if I was ready to get married. He said you’ll never be ready. Same advice when considering having a baby. Same when moving to a new house. Same when changing something in our business.
Nike is not ready to create the most innovative basketball shoe. They never were. There’s no way to get ready to do that. Toyota is not ready to make next year’s family car. There’s no way of telling if they are ready.
Decide by desire
We want something big, we go for it. We take the risk. We gamble on a big outcome. We feel out of control.
We feel like it’s a crazy idea. Everyone else feels like it’s a crazy idea… except the people who are more successful.
Important things just gotta be done
We can be thrilled by being out of control. The thrill dissipates quickly.
The appreciation of vulnerability is a more sustainable mindset. We are vulnerable. Even if we feel secure in waiting to be ready, we are really not in control there either. We can accept vulnerability and realize that preparing or doing, we’re still specks in the universe. We can figure out what’s important to us and jump into it. That’s fun.