For so long in my life I over analysed what I wanted to do and actually never got round to doing it. Imaging trying to teach a young child to swim by sitting her in front of a chalk board explaining which muscles the child must move in order to swim. Then to teach the child about how momentum through water can create an upward thrust that will keep the child afloat. After that imagine taking the child to gym to exercise the necessary muscles to ensure the child has the strength to swim.
That’s ridiculous; the child just needs to get into the water supervised. Soon the child’s mind will have worked out all the complexities of swimming without any lesson required.
I have caught myself at times spending too much time planning for a course of action, rather than just taking the action.
The best way to grow as a human is to learn to do things, by actually just doing it. What if it’s required of you to give a public speech? Our natural inclination is to spend hours writing out the speech and thinking it through in our minds, but when it comes to giving it, we are so paralysed by fear that we forget everything we planned, our throats close up and we battle to speak.
What’s the point of a speech that took hours to prepare if we can’t remember it at crunch time? The best way to prepare a speech is by given speeches. The best way to learn to swim is by swimming, and the best way to change your life is by making a change.
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