Before You Act

‘Treating an uncertain world as if it were predictable only gets you into trouble.’

‘If you can’t predict the future- and increasingly you can’t- action trumps everything.’

‘If you believe that passion and desire must be in place before you act, you may never start.’

‘Nothing happens until you take that first smart step.’

‘Before you act … you need to know what you want.’

‘The people who excel at creation don’t spend months or years assembling resources. They like to get started quickly- immediately, if possible.’

A key part of moving forward is understanding current reality.’

‘In the worst of all possible worlds, you are going to fail quickly and cheaply as a result of using Creation. That is not a bad thing.’

‘You are only one thought away from an insight that can make a problem go away, perhaps turning it into an opportunity in the process.’

‘Problems are good news (almost always). Really.’

Source:

Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer, & Paul B. Brown (2012). Just Start: Take Action, Embrace Uncertainty, Create the Future

Real Leaders Never Stop Moving Forward

‘If you live in the past, you’ll never improve your future. The best lessons in life are the ones you pay for.’

‘If your life isn’t growing and improving, something is wrong.’

‘Facing the fear is always a faster way to get where you’re trying to go than sticking with what is familiar.’

‘Beware of who you allow to connect to you … who we connect with in life can make or break us.’

We can’t change the world for all of them, but we can change the world for one of them, and that’s powerful.’

‘Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.’

It is not your past decisions that define you, it is the next one.’

‘If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you. Swim harder.

‘You aren’t successful unless you take others with you.’

‘You are who you hang out with.’

Great leaders influence; bad leaders rule.’

Source:

Walter Bond (2019). Swim! How a Shark, a Suckerfish, and a Parasite Teach You Leadership, Mentoring, & Next Level Success