E189 | What Are You Waiting For?

Today is a quick episode on the idea of waiting.  Is there something you have been waiting on to accomplish?  What are you waiting for?  Too often, we wait on something that never ends up happening.

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Episode Transcription:

Danny: You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a breakneck pace and grind on for miles cross, weirdest, wild space headed. I fear the most useless place, the waiting place for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go, or a bus to come, or a plane to go where the mail to come, or the rain to go, or a phone to ring or this notice no, or waiting around for a yes or a no, or waiting for their hair to grow.

Everyone is just waiting, waiting for a fish to bite or waiting for the wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their uncle Jake, or a pot to boil, or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

No, that's not for you. Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where boom bands are playing. That is a passage. That's what page should say from one of my favorite books or The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss. It's a book that I read to my kids frequently, and I think it's one of my favorites and one of their favorites.

And I want to talk about the idea of waiting and what people are waiting for and how detrimental waiting can be to what you decide to do in your career, and in, in particular, in business now. I want to say it's the first time I've ever read a section of a book on a podcast, but this is a section that I think everyone should hear, and everyone should, should understand.

Yes. It's a little kids' book. What reality is? Too often, I see people that are just waiting for the right time in particular or waiting until their skillset is appropriate or waiting until all these things align. That never actually happens, and what happens is. They put off the inevitable of what they want to do because of it because there's less discomfort associated with not trying.

Then with failing significantly less. So when we put things off, and we wait, and we make these excuses of why we haven't done the job that we do and, and when we're going to do it, when X, Y, and Z happens, and I would hear this all the time, and you may have friends. Like this that are like, yeah, I'm, I'm, my goal is to do this, but I'm just waiting until this happens.

And it never actually happens, and you know, it's like, yeah, no, I want to do this thing, but then I have to wait until this occurs first. And I wouldn't say I like the idea of waiting for anything if it's, it's so stressful for me to have to wait. For people to accomplish something or finish something or for infrastructure to be built.

It's almost to a, to a fault, because I, I typically will take a strategy of jump out of the airplane and build the parachute on the way down. Do you know? And there are pros associated with that. There's also, you know, some inherent negatives that can be related to that. But I want to ask you this, you know, is there something that you have been waiting on.

To take the next step in whatever it is that you're trying to do. Is there a person you've been waiting to develop a relationship with? Is there a skill set that you're waiting to create before you feel comfortable going out on your own and doing something? Is there something, anything that you're waiting on.

Or waiting to happen until you decide to take the next step towards the thing that you know you know you would prefer to be doing or you think you would prefer to be doing the next logical step in your pathway and your career and your, whatever you want to call it, your experience along the way.

And I was hoping you could think about it—that passage in this Dr. Seuss book and how the waiting place is the worst place of all—just waiting for all these things to happen—waiting for her train to come or a better break. All these things that we hear, you know, people make these excuses for why they're not doing the job that they know that they want to do.

And very few people make it out of that place. They make it out of a place where they're waiting. And they get into a place where they're taking action. And I hope that if you're listening to this and you've been waiting for something, and it's causing stress in your life, cause you know you should be doing something else, you know that you'd be happier doing something else or at least trying to do something else.

Hopefully, the words of Dr. Seuss and myself, I guess, I'm not putting myself in the same conversation with them, but. I hope that this drives you to take a look at that, to take a look in the mirror. While you're waiting, what you're waiting for, and are you waiting? Where are you just scared of failing?

Because if you're scared of failing, that's normal. No one wants to fail. No one wants to have embarrassment associated with not being able to accomplish the thing that they tried to do. But you know what's worse than embarrassment and failure is not trying at all and having regret associated with the fact that you didn't give it a shot, cause you're not going to be able to get that time.

Back, so stop waiting and start acting.

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