Fly on the E-Commerce Cyberwall

Business skills = Life skills (Confidence)
Sometimes things don't go according to plans. That's when confidence comes into play. You see, you don't have to have every detail planned out in advance in order to move forward. There are times when you simply come up against an obstacle with no direction evident.

Does that mean stop? Not necessarily. Sometimes you just need to plow ahead and figure out what to do off the cuff and trust your abililty to make something out of nothing.

I sat down tonight thinking that I had run dry on my recent Business Skills = Life Skills theme. As a matter of fact, I couldn't think of anything to write tonight. So I sat down and just started writing.

I know in the past that a lot of times when I had drawn a blank for that day's blog, I just started writing about anything that came into my mind -- gripes, random thoughts, even writing stuff like, "Well, I guess I have nothing to write about tonight." And before long, an idea would start to emerge from my stream of consciousness and take shape -- often into some of my best entries.

So when faced with a blank screen -- and an equally blank mind -- I just started writing. I wrote about how I had run out of gas on the Business Skills = Life Skills theme and had nothing more to write about it. I started writing about how I had decided to just start writing and see if anything worthwhile would come out of it.

And before long, I realized that I was drawing from another life skill essential to business -- confidence. Now, I'm not talking about the smugness or self-promotion that people sometimes mistake for confidence. I'm talking about a willingness to trust yourself to improvise when you hit a dead end.

Not everything in life or in business can be planned out. But you can make choices and move forward in any situation you face -- even if the situation is something you never planned for.
Jeff