Inspired Project Teams

Audio: Accept What Is [Time - 16:45, File Size - 15.8 MB]

Imagine this situation: You are in your beautiful, newly remodeled kitchen wiping the counters clean after dinner.  Out in the hallway you hear your big labrador retriever galloping toward you. In a flash, he bounds across the tile to the table, plunks his meaty front paws up on a chair and begins sniffing the dinner plates for leftovers. Stopping your clean-up chores, you whirl to see what he’s getting into and bam!… his big nose knocks over a nearly full glass of dark, purple grape juice left untouched by one of the kids. The tough plastic tumbler bounces all over the place, spritzing the walls with purple droplets, while a big puddle of juice begins expanding across the tile. It’s flowing straight toward your new beige living room carpet.  Do you:

• A. Deny that this is actually happening, telling yourself that you are a good, hard-working person who doesn’t deserve this kind of misery?
• B.  Find your spouse and begin an angst-filled review of your family’s history of owning this dog, bemoaning the fact that while the dog is lovable, he has always caused too many minor disasters?
• C.  Sit down with your wife and kids and imagine a future that has in it no potentially staining leftovers and no dog anywhere near the kitchen?
• D.  Run across the room, placing yourself and your counter-cleaning sponge squarely between the expanding puddle of purple and the new carpet, thus preventing the major stain?

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Audio: Just Do It! [Time - 15:47, File Size - 14.9 MB]

It is my intent in this post to convince you of the tremendous liberating power of simply taking action. I want to encourage you to get moving… to get unstuck… to just do it! If you and your project team members are sometimes plagued with fits of analysis paralysis or procrastination, accompanied by worry over all the bad things that might happen when you take action, then this post (podcast) is for you.  Let’s start with some a couple of powerful quotes:

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