Fire ready aim
“Fire, ready, aim!”
This reminds me life’s about action.
Think about how in the war movies that we’ve all seen, how they fire their artillery. They’ve got the guy that crawls up there to the front with his binoculars, and he’s looking out with the radio and the binoculars, and he gives off some numbers and the people in the back with the cannon fire the thing.
The forward observer watches where it lands and says, “You want to move a little bit to the left, a little bit to the forward,” and gives them some more numbers.
They fire again. The forward observer looks out and says, “Fire for effect,” and then they just let the whole barrage go.
What they’re doing is they’re firing their cannons to aim their cannons. In the artillery, they have a whole line of those cannons back there. They’re not all firing for the observer to watch. It’s one cannon firing so the observer can see where the shells are landing.
While that’s happening, all of the other cannons are getting ready. Then once the first cannon knows where it’s aiming, all the other cannons aim, and then they all start firing.
It’s about going out and creating a mess, which I’m pretty good at, and then looking at the mess and saying, “How can I do this better?”
It’s about going out and taking action, then looking at what we’ve done, spending the time doing some introspection, taking aim, and then moving forward.
That is so powerful. I think that for many years I got caught up in everything had to be perfect before I could do anything, caught up in indecision.
With this model, the fire, ready, aim, I’m able to just go out, get something done, build up some momentum, and ride it to completion.
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