Kirk Wheeler – Page 14

Commit.
Dive into the deep end of the pool.
And start right now.

There is no time to waste. Stop reading this and begin right now and then come back here when you need a break. If you are taking a break get back to it.

The rules are simple. If there is something you want to do. Do it.
And here’s why. When you start, things happen. When you think about starting, things do not happen. They get thought about, they do not get done.

So what ever it is, commit. Have a baby, write the book, start the business, make the film, record the song, get the boy/girl, learn the language, on and on and on.

You will never have enough money for a baby or enough time to write the book or enough resources to start the business, until you do. You will find the money and the time and the resources. All you need to do is begin.

And here is what will happen. Things will start to move. Fear will step out of the way. You will find time you never knew you had. Your mind will start to process things and ideas will come and more ideas will follow.

Below are some places to look for more inspiration but come back and read them later.

Commit.
Dive into the deep end of the pool.
And start right now.

Here is a video I love about what happens when you are told something can not be done and you get it stuck in your mind that it can:

Derek Sivers interviews Tim Ferris

Zenhabits.net

Lifehack

Seth Godin: The Simple Power of One Day

I would like to tell you that I write on an old black typewriter with only a desk and some books. Maybe the desk is an antique door that I have converted for the task and there is no clutter. Only a clean space for the mind. I would like to tell you that I look out a picturesque window with a view of the mountains or the ocean. But I don’t.

I look at a screen very similar to the one you are most likely reading this on. Maybe bigger if your on your smartphone right now. And the space around me does have books, but it also has hard drives and cables and cords and more clutter than it should but that doesn’t matter. I wouldn’t trade the tools I have at my disposal for all of the ribbons in the world.

Last week I was writing the post about imagination and I used a quote from Mark Twain. I knew it came from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court…. but I am also aware of my lack of talent in spelling.

So I just switched over to a browser and started typing in the Google search bar and after I got to “a conn” I saw “a connecticut yankee” and I arrowed down twice and then hit the right arrow and the spacebar and it auto completed the rest of the title and then I hit select all and then copy and then I pasted that into my post. It was easier than typing the title and correcting the spelling. I counted keystrokes just to see. Had I typed it out it would have taken 43 keystrokes without spellcheck. The way I did it took 13. And that includes switching programs.

Now I don’t know if one way is better or not. But I do know that I am so used to doing things this way that I didn’t even think about it. That’s how much my process has changed based on the tools I have available.