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For Starters, Keep it Simple

  

Nothing is ever really as hard as it first appears to be. Personally, I tend to over-simplify things. Sometimes I'm wrong and pay dearly for my miscalculation. Fortunately, more times than not, I've been right and have avoided a fair amount of frustration and wasted time. I have often joked that there is something in our genetic make-up that kicks in to tell us "look for something real easy and then try to make it harder than it needs to be".

  

The fact is, we sometimes tend to make things harder or more complicated than they need to be. Why? Because we do. We over-think the situation. We get emotional - and even mad. We lose site of the root cause, the real facts, and the best solution.

  

We get distracted by what might or could happen until we overwhelm ourselves with layers and layers of "perceived" complexity, confusion and...here's the big one: fear. We even confuse others working with us. We let this confusion literally "stop us in our tracks". We create more "crossroads and barriers" in our minds. The end result is nothing happens and we even think about quitting or giving up.

  

Some will go as far to convince themselves that they need to be perfect in finding the "right" solution. Let me let you in on a little secret: people who try to be perfect are usually procrastinators! Perfectionists live in a world of "getting ready, to get started, to commence, to begin". They are always looking for that last piece of information. They stand at the starting line, waiting and thinking, thinking and waiting...while others are moving forward and making progress.

  

Starting out trying to oversimplify every challenging situation will not work in every case. I get it! But, before you jump to conclusions about how complicated an issue might be, why not first, take a deep breath and start to look at the issue differently, breaking it down into smaller and simpler pieces. 

  

Try this approach:

  1. Learn to think, speak, and write in simple terms.
  2. Identify the key questions to ask to get all of the needed input to understand the issue.
  3. Define the desired outcome and work backwards from there.
  4. Ask someone to review your plan and solicit their constructive feedback (and listen to them, if it makes sense).
  5. Identify what needs to be done - write it down step-by-step, in the right order.
  6. Take a hard look at all of the steps and eliminate any unnecessary ones (unnecessary steps make it more complicated).
  7. Understand that it is OK and necessary to make decisions based on imperfect data.
  8. Do it, and measure progress and results.
  9. If the desired result is not achieved, don't give up; evaluate what took place and make another decision to make it right.
  10. Stay focused.

The world we live and work in is complicated enough; don't add to it.

  



 The Coach's PLAY BIG Quote

"Just because it's hard and complicated isn't a good enough reason to think that your solution has to be hard and complicated.
Start with a simple first step.
 
 
 

  

  


  

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