Just start…

Action is always more important than anything else. It needs to be directed in the proper general area to be effective, but it still is a million times more rewarding to be acting than to be sitting, thinking, writing, planning and procrastinating.

Taking a step toward something is often very difficult, especially something new. Taking further steps down that road once you’ve started is even worse, at least in the beginning, and although the pain may suck, the hustle and hard work and rewarding path you’ve taken will eventually make the pain worth it, and you’ll feel much happier as you continue down that path.

Some days you’ll sit around and wonder why you put yourself through that pain. The initial period of pain is when you’ll wonder this. Because you’ll be thinking, “wow this sucks, who would have thought I’d have masochistic tendencies?” You don’t have those tendencies but it is weird to think that we sometimes choose a path that we know is going to suck and then wonder why we’re on it.

We’ll wonder why we didn’t just stay with everyone else. Everyone that’s sitting at the starting point of our path, enjoying themselves, laughing, talking, catching Pokemon. But the thing is, those people sitting at the same place as before don’t realize what they’re missing out on. They let fear or complacency rule their lives. They look happy now but, how happy will they be when they’re in the same spot in 5 or 10 years?

My main issue here is that my friend has a business idea. A great one. He talks about it all the time. I thought we would have already executed it, but we haven’t. It’s something that’s been done before, that works, and makes a good amount of money. But he just doesn’t wanna start. I need his help to start, but I’m thinking I’ll just do it on my own at this point. And the reason I’m sitting here in my pajamas at 1 pm on a Sunday afternoon writing this is because my last few conversations with him made me realize something…

You just need to fucking START…

Forget the business plan, the name, the excel sheet with all the vendors, the sales pitch, the VC meeting, the marketing, the advertising, the facebook group, the marketing plan, the networking event with high profile industry leaders, the ____________ and the ______________ and every other god damn thing you THINK you need to do. Forget all of that because it’s all bullshit. If you can’t fucking execute on an idea, RIGHT NOW, then you need to go home and go to sleep.

Go get a job

Stop saying you wanna be an entrepreneur

Stop talking about shit all the time

I’m pretty heated. It tends to happen when you’re yelling at people for the mistakes you’ve made.

The only way to make anything happen is to start. Right now, in this moment, you can do something to make your idea a reality. Do it. Just take that first step. Don’t write a business plan. Don’t make a useless list. Don’t do any of that. Just start.

Execution is the most important part of the process. You can optimize everything later, but for now, just take the first step. Figure out what the actual first step is and just take it. It’s gonna be messy, it’s gonna be bad and it’s gonna look horrible, but it puts you a million miles ahead of the guy that wants a 50 page business plan and a logo and a name before he actually makes a move on his idea.

Start, right now

That’s all you need to do

Just start…