Gravestones And Rocket Ships

From the archive: originally published February 2013 on the Empower Network blog.

The original video from this post wasn’t preserved in the archive.

See the Unseen

You have to see things in your mind before they exist in reality and take massive action until you have manifested your vision. Carefully read these powerful words from David Sharpe.

We went, and took massive action, until we had something proven and had results, and THEN we started to get into all the technical stuff, and infrastructure and stuff like that.

Don’t worry about going in and checking and knowing everything before you take action.

-David Sharpe

Gravestones And Rocket Ships

Trying to make everything perfect before you start just means you are going to be sitting on your ass until you die. You might as well order your tombstone engraving now:

Died broke waiting for the perfect moment to get started. If only he would have had 100 more years to put on the finishing touches. R.I.P.

There is no one that has had massive success, ever in history, that hasn’t done a lot of things wrong along the way.

The Empower Network was launched out of a hotel room with a handful of people in it, and a website that didn’t work.

The first employee worked for David Sharpe from his kitchen table.

A million other things went wrong…

but look what it has become.

The reason is simple.

The “Double D’s” had a vision that surpassed their current reality, and they took massive action until the reality surpassed their vision, and then they made the vision bigger.

You should probably read that last statement five times or more, because when you do you will discover another secret of progressive success, that will keep you from ever “getting stuck.”

A rocket that is getting sent to the moon is off course over 90% of the time. Making constant adjustments, of a fast moving object, are what brings it in to its desired destination.

You Can’t Steer A Parked Car

Some of you that are reading this are waiting for the perfect time to take action and get started.

Maybe you have already made the decision, and you are trying to make the perfect plan before you take that first step and get started.

You can’t steer a parked car.

It feels good to take that first step.

I remember a time when I didn’t listen to those feelings, and I ended up wrapping my knee around a power-pole snowboarding at 30mph, and two surgeries later I had ruined my senior year of basketball.

I also remember a time when I was in the shower with the woman that is now my wife, and I made a decision at that moment that changed the course of my life forever, for the better.

I’m damn happy I listened to my instincts, and made the right choice.

Think back and remember a time in your life when you were in the right place at the right time, faced with a powerful decision, and you made the right choice?

Was your heart beating fast?

Where were you?

How did you feel?

What made you know that you were making the right choice?

It’s time to start taking massive action, get some results, and THEN you can worry about details.

-Aki Wood
“Visionary and Dreamer”