Comments on: Are You Shipping Your Ideas Successfully?

By: jonathanfigaro

jonathanfigaro — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:52:12 +0000

I think doubt play a major role in everyone life. Even yours Annabel. For, you had to have doubt before you became confident enough to create such a great website and allow guest speakers to post there theories and opinions on your site, don’t you agree? So it cant be too bad to doubt.

For whats the yin without the yang. We must feel pain to enjoy the pleasure of love, Don’t you agree? As long as we don’t allow doubt to control our hearts, then we can definitely shape our own lives, thought by thought, action by action.

By: Steve Scott Site

Steve Scott Site — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:02:27 +0000

TR- I was just thinking about him today. Great quote by a great man.
Anyhow I like your idea on “shipping ideas” I sometimes have problems with my “inner perfectionist” not wanting to let things loose.

If I waited for “him” to be happy I might never get anything done, though. Listening to doubts can often send you onto the shoals of dispair, which is a dark and dismal place to be.

I absolutely agree that you need to banish the fears and doubts and like Nike says succinctly, “just do it”

Sometimes you screw up, sometimes you make mistakes, but it is in fact these mistakes and missteps you make that really make you achieve and reach new heights.

-Steve

By: Ricardo Bueno

Ricardo Bueno — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:33:39 +0000

I think that setting smaller tasks and rewarding yourself for milestones is totally important! Rewarding yourself in this way allows you to get the confidence you need (and momentum) to keep going.

One thing that I used to do often (sometimes monthly) was check my progress against my yearly goals. For some reason, I stopped doing this. It’s a good exercise and I definitely recommend it.

By: J.D. Meier

J.D. Meier — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:44:32 +0000

Timelines are a great way to keep things on track. A practice we do at work is we get smart people on a cadence and then we ship stuff by catching trains … and the key is getting the trains to leave the station on time.

By: Annabel Candy

Annabel Candy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:52:12 +0000

Hi Jennifer, thanks for commenting and the brilliant quote! Obsessing over perfect has been a problem for me – it’s the fear of being judged. The fear that people will talk about how bad what I did, said or wrote was. I’ve stopped worrying so much about what other people think and that’s freed me up. We’re all doing our best in life and that’s all we can do. Hmmm, how about a rehash on an old saying: Better to have shipped and lost than never to have shipped at all:)

By: Annabel Candy

Annabel Candy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:48:46 +0000

Hi Steve, lol, thanks for joining us again! You’ll find it, don’t stop looking:) Sometimes it takes a while….

By: Annabel Candy

Annabel Candy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:47:53 +0000

Thanks Rob, love that lesson on how to be a winner: “winners relate to life in an enthusiastic way, in spite of their failures.”

By: Annabel Candy

Annabel Candy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:46:25 +0000

Hi Dave, lovely to see you thoroughbreds here:) I like that motto for picking up and moving on in life or anything: Repackage, reship. Thanks!

By: Annabel Candy

Annabel Candy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:45:11 +0000

Thanks, master! That’s what I thought:)

By: Jennifer Garza

Jennifer Garza — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:22:32 +0000

Great post! In keeping with the quotes, I like what Thomas Edison had to say: “I have not failed; I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” People are funny about failure.

We often stand in our own way. The “known” gets comfortable. Instead of shipping off our ideas, which opens the door to rejection and failure, we obsess over getting them “perfect.”