Yesterday I had a pretty rough day. More on that next week on my JibberJobber blog.
To end the day, though, I thought I’d carve out some time and put together a powerpoint to try slideshare.net. I’ve been wanting to do it for a while, but really wish I had a really creative person to do it for me, or at least check it out. Someone like Armano, or Geno (both of whom I’ve met in person).
It’s not that I don’t like to pretend I’m creative. But something happened two years ago that made me stop and think harder about what I was doing.
I put out a press release.
It was uber-successful.
And that success scared me.
Scared me into thinking I had to be more thoughtful, more careful, with these types of things.
And I stopped. No more press releases. Nothing that an ad agency, or a PR firm, should do.
I scared myself into non-action.
And that was dumb.
May 31st, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Jason, I’m a cautious, often shy person by nature. And I get very nervous if I have to stretch. But I’ve learned that no matter how scary a situation, we almost always regret not taking action — and almost never regret taking action.
Think of how very many scary things you’ve done to build JJ and your amazing network in the past 2 years. You can’t tell me that was easy and not scary. Bravo to you! You can’t do what you’ve done and be dumb. Ease up on yourself, will ya?!
But if there is now something you are now ready to do, go for it!