Seize Every Moment | How to Start Taking Steps Now

Good morning, Believe Nation. Today's message is seize the opportunities. Over to you, Shonda Rhimes. I wake up every morning with espresso, keep me going.

I think I spent a lot of time, and a lot of people spend a lot of time, thinking of all the things they want to do and talking about it. But the idea that you're not actually doing anything to get to where you want to go, you're waiting for some sort of big magical moment or some door to open or some, I don't know, some interesting illuminating thing to happen is very different from the hard day-to-day slogging through step by step. I'm gonna climb this ladder. Here's an opportunity. I'm gonna run for it. Any little small moment. Oh, they want me, you know, I wanna be a writer. Somebody wants me to be an intern at their production company. I will go do that. Somebody wants me to go, you know, work at this job. I will do that. Oh, I'm gonna go work at this sort of awful job because it's gonna pay the bills so I can write at night. Well, I'm gonna do that because that's a way to get where I wanna go. People don't want to do those things because they think that they're waiting for the big break. And I think that hard work and being a doer and taking every opportunity that comes your way, whether or not it seems like the most amazing one, is the way to go.

I think people are too afraid often to take the first step, and they want to have the perfect first step, and until they find it, they don't take any action. Where you need to understand that there is no one perfect right step. No matter how much time you spend planning and preparing and dedicating your time to it, until you actually take that first step, nothing matters yet. And perfectionism kills so many businesses before they even start because you never actually take that first step. Where the best thing to do is take a step, if it didn't work, course correct, fix it, take another step and another step and another step. So that you make progress and build momentum towards your goal. In the time that you spend thinking about what the perfect first step is, somebody else is already taking 50 steps forward. And so much better than inaction is taking any kind of action. Now I'm not saying go out and take out a huge mortgage on your house or go deep into debt or take some big risky decision. Start small. In every single business, There is no one perfect thing that you need to do. They've all been different. Whether it's Microsoft or Google or Nike or Apple or whatever company you wanna look at, whatever their first step was, it was all different. And so understand that your first step is just one of a million that you're gonna have to take, and none of them are gonna be perfect. So just start, and then make the next one better, and the next one better, and the next one better. Seize the opportunities that you have in front of you instead of waiting for the perfect one to come. Because that perfect one is not there. You have to go out and create it for yourself by taking those steps. So the question of the day today is, what is holding you back from taking the next step in your business? Leave in the comments below. I'm going to join in the discussion. I also want to give a quick shout out to Christian Sharkey. Christian, thank you so much for buying my book. Really means a lot to me. Those of you watching, you want a chance at a shout out in a future video, make sure to pick up a copy of the book and email in your receipt so we keep track. Thank you guys so much for watching. Have an amazing day. Continue to believe, or whatever your one word is, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso. I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going.