--Mark Twain
I was reading a book about famed martial arts star Bruce Lee last night. In 1963, when he was a complete unknown, Bruce gave a talk on Chinese philosophy at Linda Emery’s High school. She thought he was very good-looking.
A few months later when she saw that he was offering classes in Kung Fu, the eighteen year old Linda signed up as one of the first of his new students, so that she could meet him. She didn’t expect to like the class, but to her surprise, she enjoyed learning Kung Fu. A year later, Bruce Lee and Linda Emery were married.
Linda Emery could have been like her high school peers and appreciated Bruce Lee’s presentation, personality, and good looks, but never have taken action to actually get to know him. It must have taken a lot of courage for an eighteen year old high school girl to sign up for martial arts classes in 1963. She must have felt at least a little outside of her comfort zone. Yet, her attraction to Bruce was stronger than her fear of doing the unknown.
What impresses me is that she saw what she wanted and she took action. She put herself in a position to win.
The same principle applies to us when reach a point when we realize that we have to change and grow in order to reach our goals. As entrepreneurs, we may see the next step that we have to take to achieve our goal, but that step involves something we fear to do. It could be fear of public speaking, fear of putting our beliefs and experiences in a book, or maybe fear of appearing on radio or television.
It’s been my experience that when we take the next step we not only have the fear, but we also receive the power to do what we need to do.
And, like Linda Emery and Kung Fu, we may find that we enjoy doing the thing that we feared to do.
Linda Emery could have been like her high school peers and appreciated Bruce Lee’s presentation, personality, and good looks, but never have taken action to actually get to know him. It must have taken a lot of courage for an eighteen year old high school girl to sign up for martial arts classes in 1963. She must have felt at least a little outside of her comfort zone. Yet, her attraction to Bruce was stronger than her fear of doing the unknown.
What impresses me is that she saw what she wanted and she took action. She put herself in a position to win.
The same principle applies to us when reach a point when we realize that we have to change and grow in order to reach our goals. As entrepreneurs, we may see the next step that we have to take to achieve our goal, but that step involves something we fear to do. It could be fear of public speaking, fear of putting our beliefs and experiences in a book, or maybe fear of appearing on radio or television.
It’s been my experience that when we take the next step we not only have the fear, but we also receive the power to do what we need to do.
And, like Linda Emery and Kung Fu, we may find that we enjoy doing the thing that we feared to do.
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