“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
There is never a perfect time to start anything. So the best strategy is just to jump and get started now. You
want to be a coach? Offer to coach someone in your church who is struggling with direction. Want to be a speaker? Volunteer to do a talk at a local service club or school. I think I spoke at every Rotary Club within 50 miles of Nashville before I starting being paid to speak. Want to have your own restaurant? Get a job in a restaurant and start learning the business.
Don’t wait – just get in the game. Most things in life worth doing require on-the-job training. Some of the most important principles in life can only be learned by doing them. Real life experience will give you immediate feedback on what you are doing wrong, poorly – or extremely well. Be teachable and spend time with people who are already performing at the level at which you want to be.
When I first starting teaching I would be sick to my stomach. But I wanted those opportunities. I didn’t want to study teaching; I wanted to teach. When I found myself in a serious financial hole I took a cold calling sales job. I was terrified but I wanted the money only selling could bring. I counted my rejections and then my sales. As I learned from being on the streets every day, my sales percentages went up until I knew that 67% of my presentations led to purchases. So I could welcome the rejections, knowing that at the end of the day, that 67% would put a lot of money in my pocket.
You too have to begin – from wherever you are – to take action that will get you where you want to be. Whatever you do — Don’t die with your music still in you.
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