“It’s not hard to know the right thing to do, but sometimes it’s hard to do it.”
– Dick Heston (1933 – 2002)
My best man in our wedding was a professional umpire for awhile. He always contended that the hard calls were easiest, because it was instinctive. The closer the play, the more you trusted what you were feeling. It’s the slow developing play, where it can be tempting to anticipate that an umpire can get caught off guard.
In business, it can work similarly.
When we’re over-thinking something, it’s usually in a violent struggle with our instincts. We know what to do — but pulling the trigger is a….well, it can be really difficult.
When we’re seeking to understand why we’re thinking what we’re thinking, why we’re feeling what we’re feeling and why we’re doing what we’re doing — we align the instinctive power within us with the decisions upon which we have to act.
Instinct. Reason. Action. Now that’s an IRA with predictable results.
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