Jay Root

I don’t anyone who is perfect (sans me of course . Not even doctors are perfect in their execution and they train a helluva long time! That should make everyone feel instantly better!

Here’s what this is getting at: you can plan and plan and plan until your face is blue. You can have the most brilliant idea for anything (business, discovery, pick your favorite topic), but until you say “I’m going to do this regardless of what happens!” and then actually do it, it’s worthless.

Like the anecdote says: “If it looks good on paper it must be true.” Lie. The only thing that looks good on paper is results (for most businesses that involves a large number and a bank stamp on the top of a piece of paper).

During the process, unexpected events will occur –that’s almost inevitable. But those unexpected occurrences are not complete obstacles preventing you from accomplishing you goals. Although they may appear that way—and to some even be so–they are merely ways to better your core idea.

Let me relate my personal experience and see how you can relate to it. I used to plan for everything. You name it and I planned for it. The problem is that I typically over-planned which often times kept me out of the game (or at least kept me from winning). The problem was not with the initial planning–the inital planning is what I refer to as scripting–the way to accomplish a goal. The problem came from when I would plan for the plan. And then make more and more plans. As confusing as this sounds reading it, it was ten times more confusing actually living it. So confusing that it actually prevented me from even beginning. Essentially I would “psyche myself out” before I even played the game. So focused on being perfect that I missed the forest for a dandelion.

It’s taken me some time (23 years), but now I’m at the stage where I just do. I have a script for everything, but I don’t excessively plan myself to perfection. My script involves how can I win—what steps do I need to take to win?

Things will never ever go according to plan. Ever. As long as you have a script for your end game goal and are not fixated on being 100% perfect to plan you will win. And winning always beats being perfect.