The Winner's Timeline: When to Hold Back vs. When to Launch

Foreign Larry Wydell Big Hitter podcast talking about winning, Insights on winning. Let's say you're getting ready to get started on a project, people. You know, the advice you hear all the time is, gotta go, go, go, go, go. Can't wait forever, you know, make your move. Make that first step. Don't sit around and wait till it's perfect. Stop waiting for perfect start, awkward. And here, that's great, wonderful. But, you know, the other, other side of that, you got to have some degree of being ready to go. You got to have some degree of some kind of confidence that you can see a light at the end of the tunnel. And so if you haven't got, you know, been, go, go, go on getting started, you got to be, go, go, go on getting answers to the things that are keeping you from getting started. That's what I would say. And what I'm trying to do here, what I'm doing in my solo episodes, is kind of give you some of the layers and some of the subtleties behind the paradox of decision making in pulling off successful projects. Because, you know, life is a paradox, winning's a paradox, and you hear both sides of the coin, and you got to learn to make up your judgment for yourself. Because a lot of times it's not just the right idea, but it's the right idea at the right time with the right people, in the right circumstances, with the right resources, whatever. And that's why you have leaders that can go in there. And if we use AI, My guess about AI is that the usefulness of AI will be it'll help you sort through those things and evaluate those things. But when it comes down to it, you're going to have to be the leader. You're, you know, you're not going to be able to point fingers at anybody other than yourself if you're the leader. And that's what you want to be. And of course, it's. You have more independence, you have more rewards, you know, have flexibility. But the price of it is you got to call the shots and you got to take the responsibility for the shot. So, anyway, the. Let's talk about, you know, timing your launch and what happens. You can get ahead of yourself and you can just panic because people say, go, go, go. Just. Just go with it. Just, you know, I'm just tired of you talking. You go with it. But, you know, I just went with it, you know, just to get him off my back. And the thing is, you have to go with it, but you got some internal confidence that you're going to do it. What they tell actors, like, it's like, you know, seen, you know, like go, you know, scene. Well, you know, most of the time, you know, the standard thing in the industry has been where they have that, you know, that thing, you know, action, action. And Clint Eastwood kind of turned the tide on that because he despised being acting out there and then being on a horse or something like that. And then all of a sudden, you know, you're ready to go, you're in the mood. It's like. And it's like mighty, you know, talk about ruining the mood. But that was just standard practition practice. And then they have those boards, you know, and with him, it's like, okay, when you guys are ready, you know, start the scene. You know, it's time for the scene. Whenever you're ready, just get started, you know, and everything's kind of low key. And they'll have a pause, take a breath, and then they'll say their line, you know, they'll go into it without all the action. And the trouble is that it's the same thing in life. You know, it comes time, you know, you want to start a business and our project or a lot, product launch or it's like everybody's over there, like, action. And maybe, maybe it's a day, week or so a little too early. Maybe there's a couple of things in your mind you're still hesitant about. Well, you need time to let those settle down, ask some people, get some more information, do something, because they are right. At some point it's gotta, you know, you gotta go with it. You know, if it's acting, at some point you gotta start acting, but they don't have to, you know, you can be in control of that. In fact, what they tell people in acting I've got, my younger son spent some time on that scene for a while and he, he told me that what they'll tell you is like, you know, you know what to do, you've practiced it. And then when it comes time to go, it's like you wait till you've got it in your mind, you've got the mood, and then you go, you know, you like roll into it. Because now my mind's into it. You don't just kind of blurt it all out, you know, if it just takes time to get all that right, you know, swinging the thing, the ball goes over the net, and then you say, okay, I've got a chance to go to the net and, you know, get the next point but it's got to be a rhythm to it. And I can remember the coach yelling at it, go to the net, go to the net, go to the, you know, I'd run up there. I was so anxious to run to the net simply because, to get him off my back. You know, you stumble and fall and it's like, okay, I ran to the net. You know. But there's a certain thing about giving yourself a chance to kind of ease into it and the timing is right. And if you never do that means you're not supposed to ever do it. You know, some of these people, some of these people say, well, you know, I had the chance to do this, that and the other. And I never could get myself off the couch to do it. I never could pull the tree. Well, maybe you were never supposed to pull the trigger. Maybe it was a pipe dream and maybe you didn't have the resource. Maybe you saved yourself a big disaster. Maybe that was a good thing. And so the thing is, when it comes is a paradox. What I'm telling you about getting started and you know, launching a project and you don't want to just launch it to get everybody off the back, off your back. And you just want to launch it just to say you launched it when it comes time to launch, you don't want to have, you know, you can't wait for perfect because perfect never comes. And you know, like, you know, all plans go haywire once you start implementing the plans. So you got to have flexibility. You got to have a general plan. You got to have a plan that you know in your mind this could work and enough to where you get excited about it and you want to find out if it'll work. And you know, with the idea, have enough confidence, enough resources to say, you know, we can figure it out along the way. There are people, you know, maybe I get figured out or maybe there's people I know, people I can ask. It won't be that big of a deal. We run out of money. We can squeeze some money here, there that we'll figure it out. And so once you're up to that point, you go and you're going to be awkward. You know, the idea. Stop waiting for perfect. Start awkward. You're going to be awkward when you start. No matter, you don't have to anybody to, you know, any of these idiots. I just hate these idiot experts on winning and coaching and leadership. All these half butts have never done anything, you know, start awkward. Yeah, everybody's going to start awkward, you idiot. You know, you start playing hockey, you start playing basketball, you start swimming, you're awkward. You start at a piano, you start a guitar, you start anything. You know, your first day on the job, what New rookie. At any company in the world, the first day is not awkward. You haven't been. I remember I walked into the Trump International Golf Club. I paid a quarter million dollars in 2003 to join. You know, I had the right to be there, but I felt awkward just getting out of my car, you know, giving it over the valet and then walking inside. It's like, well, I don't know, where is everything? You know, this, you know, you know, pretty soon you get in the rhythm, you meet the staff, and you. It takes. You know, even joining a country club, they're going to probably be awkward around me until. It takes time, you know, it takes time to get used to it. So when you start any, they don't worry about the awkward. That's just a stage you go through. Dadgum it. And you don't need to someone say, oh, stop waiting for perfect start. Awkward. That's just stupid. And so awkward comes, awkward goes. There's no way to avoid it. But, you know, waiting to be ready is a trap, too. And this is the paradox of it. You can't wait, wait forever. You know, you can wait until you. You get the information you need, but at some point, you're going to have to say, I'm going to go with this or not. You. I want it bad enough to overcome my reluctance to start, or I don't. And maybe you don't. But the deal is that, you know, that's. That that's part of the process, if figured out if you really want it bad enough, because the key to you winning will be how bad you. You want it. Once you launch, you're going to run into roadblocks, obstacles, things are going to go wrong. And then it comes down to how determined are you to make this, you know, plane fly? You know, how much you're going to flap your wings. And so if you don't have enough to, you know, even start flapping, that's a, you know, just say, that's a good thing. You know, that's just not for me, you know, and there'll be something. There'll be some other place for yourself that you can get excited about. And so just because you investigated your own business, your own project or something new like that, and then you decided to guess, that's not a bad thing. I mean, you checked it out, you got it off Your mind, you considered it. Just like a lot of things in life, we consider it. Consider moving to another part of the country, consider buying this house or that house, this school district, that school district. Things you consider, you don't always go through on everything. And so waiting to be already can be a trap, but it can be a good trap, because if it traps you and you don't go forward, that's a good thing. So anyway, there's a lot of stories about the, you know, this is where a lot of the fun stories come out of. People go through getting off the ground, all of these things, you know, some minute by minute, day by day, unraveling and figuring out, am I going to go, am I going to not go? And then when you go, you know, things start to happen. Those are all the stories. You're going to build your own stories. It's going to be fun hearing about it. But, you know, awkward is the price of entry. Awkward is the price of interest, of entry. And so stop waiting for perfect and go ahead and start now. You know, start now. When you think now is, you know, there's got to become a now. You know, sooner or later you can prep, prep, prep, but you got to come to a now. And where you draw the line in the sand. You know, the whole draw the line in the sand thing, you got to have that, or you're going to draw the line and say a line in the sand. And say, I'm not going to do it. But so stop waiting for perfect. Get it good enough to where you got your excitement up and you can feel good. And remember this, winners never look ready when they start. You know, when you take pictures, take a picture when you start, you know, take a picture of everybody around you. Take a picture of your. Where you're living, what you look like, keep your records and things like that, because that'll make it fun. When this unfolding story, if you pull it off and you start it, you want to write a book about it, which you should write a book about it for your family if nobody else but for yourself, because it'll help you realize what you went through. He's gonna be, you know, if it's big, it's gonna be worth writing a book about. And. But take pictures because you're gonna look back and say, I sure didn't look ready. What was I thinking? Why? You know what, you know, if I knew what I was getting into, I would never do it. That's the way it is on every business. If I. We knew what we were getting into, we would never do it. And so don't worry if you don't. You know, you look at yourself and say, I don't look like I'm ready. That's all. That's all right. That's like being awkward. That's just a phase you're going to go through because it's going to get better. And what's awkward today can turn into awesome tomorrow. And the clock's ticking. Winners don't wait forever. Eventually they move. Now, they not necessarily move on every project they consider, but you still can be a winner if you put a lot of time and energy into getting the details about launching a particular business or project and then you decide, nope, not going to do it. But now you've prepared yourself how to evaluate things and that could be the next idea that comes to you, could be bigger. And so you could still win. You don't have to win every idea by making every idea that comes in your head a big success. So you can still win, you can still do awesome. But whenever you find what it is you're going to chase, you're going to be awkward. And if you stay with it and make it turn out the way you want it, it'll be awesome. Take care and hey, hope you enjoyed this. You want to, you know, if you like it, you know, you want to help me out, Leave a click. 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