One way of staying positive, with laser focus, no matter what you are doing, is to get some quick wins under your belt first. This doesn’t mean taking your eyes off your main goals, its about realising that the path to get there involves taking many small steps.
Think about if you needed to remove the gear box from a car, for example. Your goal might involve seeing the gearbox sat on the bench in the side of the garage all work completed ready to be fitted back in to the engine bay. To achieve this you would perhaps have to drain the gearbox, unbolt it from the engine and drive shaft, lift it onto a trolley so that you can work on it, etc.
But you don’t need to think of all those things at the beginning. Your first step would be clear room in the garage to get the car in, ensure the manual is handy, check you have all the required tools. So by starting with the things that you can do with the least hassle you will ensure that the job will run smoothly. By working in this fashion you make sure that the first hurdle isn’t too big and causes a stumble, or worse a fall, confidence is built and the job runs more smoothly. Work on what you can do now, to get things started and moving and worry about the rest later when you get to it
Don’t take on the hardest tasks first to make yourself look good or big. Also don’t think that taking the small steps first makes you a lesser person. We know from above that it is just putting the building blocks in place to make the job run smoothly.
Remember:
- Go for the quick wins first
- Get the basics in place first and then build on them
- Put perfection to one side, build it then improve it
- Work on what you can do NOW, deal with the rest as and when
- Big business is build the same way, little details first
- Doing the simple bits first makes you smart not daft, and sets the task and confidence in motion
Nod to bigiain for the piccy
