Stop Talking, Start Doing: A Kick in the Pants in Six Parts
By Shaa Wasmund and Richard Newton
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Perhaps you feel your career is stuck in a rut – or maybe you’re in the wrong job altogether. Or maybe you have a great business idea but something is stopping you from actually getting started. You may already be running a business but struggling to get to it to where you want it to be. Or perhaps you just want to be more successful in general – without knowing exactly what your vision of success is - yet!
If you want to do something but secretly fear you’re never going to do it, whatever that might be, then this will help you.
Stop Talking, Start Doing is a short, clear and cleverly illustrated book that will inspire you to take action. Whatever you want to achieve, this is the kick in the pants you need to get to where you truly want to be.
It’s great that you know you can do more, but just thinking about it, won’t make it happen. It’s doing that makes the difference. DO IT. If you’ve got something you want to do… now is a good time to start.
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Stop Talking, Start Doing - Shaa Wasmund
PART 1
TICK TOCK
What is past is prologue.
William Shakespeare
Eyes front!
Any drill sergeant in any army anywhere
Life has a sting in the tail.
It’s shorter than we expect.
And it races by while we’re working out what’s really important and what actually isn’t.
As time roars past our ears we drift, deliberate, doubt and take ourselves too seriously yet all the while we talk about what we would, could and should do to make it better.
And then it’s gone.
So let’s walk the talk.
Because there’s never been a better time, or a more
urgent time, to start doing the things you want to do.
Let’s dance.
The speed of life
This book is about starting.
It’s about shifting from the static to the active state; the state where things happen because you initiated them.
It’s about shifting gears, moving direction, transforming what you do with your day, your week, your time and taking control; it’s about deliberately putting one foot in front of the other and moving with purpose instead of being carried along by the current.
There’s never been a better time to start something. Now more than ever we live in a world of opportunity.
But the downside to this world of opportunity — brought about by new technology and new social and working conventions — is a world that seduces us into drifting through life.
Things like: shopping, web-surfing, casual tweeting, photo-commenting and status-updating. It’s not that these things aren’t fun or even good. But while it might feel like you’re doing
— in large part thanks to the power of billions of dollars of marketing — you might have a feeling that there’s got to be more to life.
You might have an itch.
Life is short.
If you’ve got something you want to do… now is a good time to start.
…Here are four reasons why…
The wheels are greased.
Our connected world makes it possible for people to actualize dreams, ideas and initiative in ways our forebears could not even dream of.
1. Whatever you want to know is accessible instantly.
Want to collect fountain pens from around the world, want to learn how to collect truffles, want to find someone to build a mobile phone app for you in another continent, want to retrain, want to research how to bicycle across the world…? No problem. It's all at your fingertips.
2. Need to locate expert help?
Then connect with people who can help you. The soaring development of the social web has demolished barriers between you and the expertise you need. It empowers you to ask friends of friends (and friends of friends of friends) if they can offer advice, make introductions, share experiences.
3. Tribe up.
Whatever it is you want to start doing—a business, a work of art, a social project, setting up a partnership of website information architects—there are people somewhere in the world who share your passion. Want to find people to trade antique fountain pens with? There are thousands of them. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to find people who share your passion. You can support each other, learn from each other, do business with each other. The author Seth Godin² calls these groups of shared passions: Tribes.
4. The barriers to entry
have collapsed.
OK, so that's a business term and we're not just talking about business. But the point is that the cost of setting up many businesses or even non-business projects has collapsed. Most digital start-ups don't even need an office but work from shared space or coffee shops. This has, for example, had an impact on the venture capital world. The power used to be in the hands of the VCs because you needed money to set up a business and they would exact a heavy price for the cash. Now that it doesn't cost so much to start up, the power is with people who have ideas and the gumption
to make them happen.
Viva la Revolución!
Viva gumption!
5. You're already at the centre of the universe.
And if in fact you are starting a business or collecting fountain pens from around the world, the global markets are wide open for business. From your front room.
The fat is in the pan.
Get cooking.
The boat is being rocked.
The conventions of society that dictated the correct way to behave and whose arched eyebrows used to hold people’s dreams in check are vanishing. In the big cities they’re already long gone. The world is too connected for that and it moves too fast.
1. Sixty years ago a gentleman wouldn’t go to work without a hat on; ten years ago they stopped wearing ties. Now you don’t have go into work to go to work… so who knows what people are wearing. But the point is: who cares?!
Society cares less about conformity than it used to. This makes it easier to swim against the current. Easier to do something different, to challenge convention. If you want to give up your job and travel round the world, learn to juggle, join a commune — your neighbours might cough and shake their heads but you can cope with that…Or they might just tell you how they always wanted to do the same thing.
2. The concept of a job for life is long gone. The tramlines that used to confine a