I once saw an old man sitting in a rocking chair on his porch next to a dog that was moaning terribly…

“What’s wrong with the dog?”

“He’s layin’ on a nail”

I scratched my head, “Why doesn’t he move?”

“Don’t hurt enough to move, just enough to moan.”

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It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you actually DO something.  Not plan it, not ponder it, not postulate it (the ‘3 Anti-P’s’ if you will) but actually get off your ASS and Git’r Done!  We live in a society where everything but action is moving faster than ever before.  The name of the game is speed, not size.  That’s why the lean web based machine can go head-to-head with the big corporate giants, and usually win.  It’s David and Goliath in Cyberspace.

Speaking of David and Goliath, lets use the analogy…btw, if you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m a stream of consciousness thinker.

When David first saw Goliath, I’m not sure how brave he felt out of the gate.  I’m guessing when you see someone around seven feet tall with a sword, you likely flinch…at least a little.  But what happened next made for a hell of a story, and one we can use here.

Since David was a kid he had to start by getting ‘permission’ to fight.  I’ve never been great at that, I’m better at asking for forgiveness, but I get it, he was a good boy The king (Big Corporation) was happy to give it to him since nobody else volunteered, but pretty worried and tried to give David HIS weapons.

David couldn’t make them work…too heavy, too bulky, too SLOW. The King figured it was suicide…

But David had something the King didn’t expect.  He had experience, technology and a gameplan.

David knew Goliath wouldn’t take him seriously, since he was a kid.  Goliath would let him get CLOSE.

David was a shepherd.  Not sure if you have any idea of what the job entails but protecting the flock from wild animals…lions and wolves for example.  So how did David do it?  The sling.  Lovely piece of technology that lets you throw a rock about 10 times harder than you can with your own arm.

Rock meet skull. Nite nite Goliath, and then David cuts of Goliath’s head with His OWN Sword… Ouch.  So…making any connections?  David was SMALL, he got CLOSE, moved FAST and the used the opponents strategy against them.

Now get this.  If David had just ‘thought about it’ but said to himself, “Gee, I’m just a kid/shepherd/nobody, I’d do something but nobody would believe me/let me.”  This is the BIG point boys and girls.  The deed got done because David done got doin’   He didn’t bitch about it, he took some motherjumpin’ action and made history, literally.

So the next time you find yourself stuck in your J.O.B. (pick an acronym, there’s lots).  Remember that the universe is literally waiting for you to DO something.  It’s conspiring on your behalf, just quit moanin’ and go for it.

“The mass of men,” wrote Henry Thoreau, “lead lives of quiet desperation.” “By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool’s life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.”

Attack and win my friends…

and be sure to tell me how it goes.

Phil Hughes

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