Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Who's the Hero of Your Story?
Who's playing the leading role in your life story right now?
My youngest daughter, Lydia, loves stories. Whether it's novels or movies or TV or the stories she writes, she loves to immerse herself in adventures where people overcome great odds to achieve what they never would have thought possible.
Right now, though, she has little time for any story but one--her own story.
She's in the final week of testing at Navy boot camp. She needs to pass strength and endurance tests to graduate and move on to her chosen training school. She needs to complete a 1.5 mile run in 15 minutes, or else she'll be held back from graduation until she does.
The problem is, she has blisters on both feet and a bad case of shin splints. Every step she takes is painful, but she has to pass the test to move on to the language training she wanted.
Her situation got me thinking how she is now living the kind of overcoming-obstacles adventure that she loves to read.
You know that kind of story--the situation gets worse and worse for the hero, but the hero guts it out and overcomes it all to succeed.
Lydia has become the hero of her own life story, facing long odds to overcome an obstacle that seems overwhelming.
It's not unlike what all of us face in starting a business. None of us come into business knowing all we need to know. Much of what we face is totally unfamiliar.
Yet the only way to succeed is to press on despite the obstacles and the uncertainties. It is an adventure in which we are the main characters, thrust into new situations and emerging successful only by facing the unfamiliar and overcoming it.
Are you acting as the hero of the story of your business launch? Are you moving forward in the face of obstacles? Are you discovering new reservoirs of resources within you as you venture into the unknown?
Then keep going! You're on the right track!
Or are you sitting back, hoping timidly that everything will simply come together for you all on its own? Are you hoping that some off-the-shelf shortcut will do all the work for you?
If so, get up and get going! You have journeys to make and dragons to slay!
If you're starting a business, you've undertaken an adventure. And the only one who's going to play the hero in that adventure is you.
Jeff
Who's playing the leading role in your life story right now?
My youngest daughter, Lydia, loves stories. Whether it's novels or movies or TV or the stories she writes, she loves to immerse herself in adventures where people overcome great odds to achieve what they never would have thought possible.
Right now, though, she has little time for any story but one--her own story.
She's in the final week of testing at Navy boot camp. She needs to pass strength and endurance tests to graduate and move on to her chosen training school. She needs to complete a 1.5 mile run in 15 minutes, or else she'll be held back from graduation until she does.
The problem is, she has blisters on both feet and a bad case of shin splints. Every step she takes is painful, but she has to pass the test to move on to the language training she wanted.
Her situation got me thinking how she is now living the kind of overcoming-obstacles adventure that she loves to read.
You know that kind of story--the situation gets worse and worse for the hero, but the hero guts it out and overcomes it all to succeed.
Lydia has become the hero of her own life story, facing long odds to overcome an obstacle that seems overwhelming.
It's not unlike what all of us face in starting a business. None of us come into business knowing all we need to know. Much of what we face is totally unfamiliar.
Yet the only way to succeed is to press on despite the obstacles and the uncertainties. It is an adventure in which we are the main characters, thrust into new situations and emerging successful only by facing the unfamiliar and overcoming it.
Are you acting as the hero of the story of your business launch? Are you moving forward in the face of obstacles? Are you discovering new reservoirs of resources within you as you venture into the unknown?
Then keep going! You're on the right track!
Or are you sitting back, hoping timidly that everything will simply come together for you all on its own? Are you hoping that some off-the-shelf shortcut will do all the work for you?
If so, get up and get going! You have journeys to make and dragons to slay!
If you're starting a business, you've undertaken an adventure. And the only one who's going to play the hero in that adventure is you.
Jeff
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