Summary: The author encourages taking action instead of waiting for the perfect moment to pursue goals. They emphasize that many successful people achieve their dreams by prioritizing action over perfection. By starting small and acting on inspiration, individuals can create opportunities and make their aspirations a reality.
When I observe my own experience and analyse why things worked out, I can tell you that it wasn’t because of any business skills or much of my knowledge; it was 90% because every time I had an idea (for a career project, a new initiative in my business, a role I wanted to learn to do), I would take advantage of the momentum of inspirationimmediatelyand act on it. (View Highlight)
Note: I see this, and yet, you can only do this if you protect enough of your time to explore, and you can only do this so many times in a time-period before you just find yourself overwhelmed.
when things work out, I realize it’s a result of simply prioritizing getting things done (View Highlight)
Many times, the most impactful things you can do for your career are free (View Highlight)
Honestly, being able to take advantage of inspiration when it strikes is one of the most satisfying feelings. (View Highlight)
When you’re good at what you do, creative, and you dare to put yourself out there and send that message anyway, good things happen (View Highlight)
You figure it out as you go along. Make an Instagram account for your passion project, make a free landing page somewhere, make it exist! (View Highlight)
it’s about doing things before you’re readyjust to make them exist (View Highlight)
Note: I think this is it. If you want to see something exist in the world, then just choose to make it exist in the world, observe your current reality, and take the first action to make it so. Your concepts, identify and otherwise, have nothing to do with creating the thing you want to see exist.
I interviewed entrepreneurs having made tens of millions in their 20s and 30s coming from all kinds of backgrounds, achieving things they never thought they’d have been able to. This is the one pattern that kept coming up. They favored getting things done, over perfectionism (View Highlight)
ery simply put: don’t let action be the only thing separating you from those that are building the life you dream of (View Highlight)
If you can take a small step today, do it. I promise it could be the one little tiny thing that kicks off a domino effect leading to great things later on. (View Highlight)
