Why i fail to do stuff

byMubuyaeta

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9 years ago

There are a million things out there that cause people to fail to do stuff that they want to do. You can point to so many things and yet we should be pointing the finger at ourselves. Our success in creating an online business depends on us. Yes, your success depends on you!

A lot of time we cry that we didn't have the resources, we didn't have the education, we didn't have the family support and a whole lot of other stuff. One thing that has been the killer of my moving forward is procrastination and a desire for perfection. In the many movies i have watched, my lesson has always been it doesn't have to be perfect. In life it is also true that whatever we do doesn't have to be perfect. That blog post or website doesn't have to be perfect before it goes out.

If we waited for stuff to be perfect before it gets tried out we wouldn't have Motor Vehicles today. The Model T Ford did not have Air Conditioning or keyless entry before it went on the road. People today wouldn't buy such a car if it was offered to the market. Today people would buy the Model T for keeping as part of their souvenir collection and not for everyday use. So whatever we are working on, let us get it out there so that it can be tested.

Once tested, our projects will get the perfection we feel they need. We are going to look at our work and see where it needs to improve. People will give us feedback on how we can make what we are doing better. No doubt there will be the empty critics. People who think they know better just because they are a few lessons ahead in life and want to make you feel worthless. Or the gifted ones who think everyone must be like them. Forget those, if the Ford Motor company listened to such people there would be no Mustang to talk about and admire. There is a Mustang today because Ford didn't listen to the ones who criticised for the sake of criticising. They listened to those who criticised to make them get better.

Sometimes it is hard to take criticism but it is good for us to improve. Past criticism is also the other cause of failure to do stuff and so is past failure. Some of you might be wondering how it affects us. I sometimes look at my past failures and dwell there and fail to do what is present. I sometimes forget about my successes. Like how i have beat the odds in the past and found myself in a better place. I had failed in High School and had a failed Marriage and numerous other failed projects. But today i am a Chartered Accountant ( CPA equivalent), hold a degree and am happily married with two kids. On year eight in Marriage and keeping fingers crossed we keep the fire burning. The movie "gone in sixty seconds" had a great lesson for me. Even if you failed at something so many times. You can still beat it some day.

Apologies for the long post. I just thought it could help someone. I know it will help me to get my stuff done. Focus on your past successes and not your failures and make your present a reference point for your future success.

Mubuyaeta.