I’ve noticed a growing trend in questions from clients that has helped me to a clarifying revelation.
The questions usually begin with a shopping list of options:
1. I could do this or
2. I could do that or
3. I could do nothing or
4. I could do something completely different and
5. I HAVE TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION
So it occurred to me today that we do not have to make the right decision.
We just have to make A decision to do something that gets us out of that proverbial front door that I keep going on about.
I want to stop hearing clients tell me they have sat on their sofa, in their home office, in their tower block – contemplating the “right decision” and doing nothing.
Scientific progress is made through experimentation – the 9,999 light bulbs that didn’t work.
Artistic progress is made through experimentation – the canvases and manuscripts that were never finished or allowed into sunlight.
Business progress is made through experimentation – through the experiences of events and relationships.
If I had never experimented, I would either still be a bored financial planner or a coach who worked 40 hours a week flat out to support 30 clients with 1:1 phone calls (and was still bored).
I experimented my way to the Coaching Gym, to leveraging my time, to working with dentists and coaches, to developing weekly work-out logs, call-in days, webinars and blogging.
Tomorrow I begin experimenting with podcasting. I have no idea if it will work – don’t care – I’ll just try and see what happens.
Stop contemplating and start experimenting.