Start with a Decision
I’m so excited for my friend Candy!
Candy is a great motivational speaker and a good friend. She makes me laugh, cry, and push myself just a little bit more to achieve the things I want in life. I think I do the same for her.
Last week we met for breakfast (my favorite meal of the day) and talked about life, business, dreams, and more. As usual the discussion turned to her website–rather it turned to her continued lack of one.
A website is so beneficial for a professional speaker. After all, it’s great to tell people (potential clients) that you’re a speaker but unless you always carry printed brochures, the contact may end there. But if you can direct them to your website, well, they can learn about your programs, your education/experience, your past clients, and more.
So anyway… Candy and I were talking about one of her programs on the topic of change. We talked about the difference between change that is externally generated (things that happen to you) and change that is internally generated (things you want to happen to you).
She made the statement that if you want to create long-term change in your life, you just have to start with something small today… and do something small each day until the change has occurred.
The conversation drifted off onto a tangent as conversations do.
It was later in the day that I realized that Candy needed to do something to help herself achieve professional success. She needed to get a website up and running.
Now for you non-techies out there, don’t panic. Candy isn’t a techie either. But she has a good friend (me!) who offered to take care of the technical stuff and serve as her webmaster. All she needed to do was provide information on her programs, background, and stuff like that. I’d take care of the rest.
But one of the things holding Candy back was that she couldn’t decide on a domain name for her site. The domain name is the address (www._____________.com or .net etc.) that you type in your web browser.
So I sent Candy an e-mail and challenged her to make this decision. Just pick a name. I suggested she use her name or her business name. Then I waited. It took a couple of days but she finally responded with her answer. Sweet!
Yesterday I did the legwork to register her domain name and set up a web site hosting account. In another day or two she will have a website that she can use to promote her professional speaking business.
Isn’t that exciting? All it took was for her to make a decision and I’m doing the rest!
What decisions do you need to make? Is there something someone is just itching to start working on for you, but they can’t get started until you make a decision?
Your decision doesn’t have to be perfect. But until you make a decision you can’t evaluate whether or not it was the best decision. If Candy decides to change her domain name at a later date, it will be easy enough to do.
But until you start with a decision, you can’t take the next step. And the next step is what I find so exciting!
October 20th, 2006 at 9:23 am
Nice article, Donna. I went to google and searched on the phrase “Indecision is a decision” and found all of the quotes listed below on just page one. Notice a pattern? You’ve touched a nerve!
“Indecision is a decision to let things remain as they are.”
“Indecision is a decision that becomes addicting—it paralyzes and immobilizes you from doing anything to get unstuck.”
“In the Absence of Resolve, Indecision is a Decision which Charts a Perilous Course.”
“Indecision is a decision not to decide. Your indecision comes through equally loud and clear.”