Thread by @hnshah

Not everything you do will work.

That’s ok.

Don’t let it stop you from starting.

If everything you ever did worked as you expected it to you’re probably risk averse.

You aren’t picking challenging enough things to do.

You’re spending too much time coming up with a perfect plan.

You aren’t starting a lot of new things.

You’re comfortable.

Time for change.

Comfort and change shouldn’t ever be used in the same sentence.

See what I did there?

I took a risk. I broke a rule. I did something and risked failure.

I risked being misunderstood.

Get it?

People avoid starting things because of how much they think about failing before they get started.

They convince themselves that their ideas won’t work.

They sabotage themselves before taking the first step.

Their ideas never see the light of day.

The trick to starting anything is to take baby steps.

The people who achieve their goals take baby steps all the time.

Getting good at taking baby steps involves first conquering your fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD).

Make those negative thoughts a thing of the past.

Taking baby steps is easy.

Ask yourself the most relevant one of these questions:

What can be done now?
What can be done tomorrow?
What can be done this week?

The faster you get to asking and answering this question, the easier it’ll be to start.

When we spend too much time thinking about what to do, we end up wasting energy that should be used for doing.

Don’t forget that before you learned how to run, you first had to roll over, sit, crawl and walk.

#babysteps aren’t just for babies!