By Pearson Mbendera
We all have been through the ‘if only’ phase. When you want something but you just feel there is something that holds you back. You want to start a company but you think if only I had capital, I would register my company tomorrow. It all differs from one person to the other but the feeling is similar. But what the ‘if only’ thought does to us is that, it tells us what we can’t do, what we will never amount to. But that shouldn’t be the case, because even though you might not have everything at hand, you still need to take the first step.
I remember back in January when I got a bookkeeping job. I thought to myself, what will I do, I am not qualified enough, what if I will mess everything up. Truth is, I didn’t even need to worry about all that, there were things I didn’t know, but still I could learn what it is that I didn’t know and still do it right, which is what I ended up doing. And now, I look back at the time I spent worrying about my insecurity over something I could do. Without taking the first step, and taking the responsibility of the job as it came, I wouldn’t have realized something about me and my capability, all I need was the courage to say yes.
That’s the same principle a car uses when travelling at night. It has its lights turned on but still they don’t reveal the entire distance. A person can drive a car from Harare to Bulawayo at night and still make it safe but the lights won’t be revealing the entire distance. That is because we don’t need to see the end, all we need is to see where we will put our next step, and just like the car, as the distance is covered, a further distance is revealed until we make it to the end.
But it’s too easy to come up with excuses, and say to yourself, you are not good enough, you don’t have what it takes. Life is not about everything like that. It’s about the little steps we make every day. The most important step isn’t the last step; it’s the next step, because for us to be closer to the end, for us to be one step away from victory, we should have travelled the entire distance ad we do that by the little steps we take.
So today ask yourself this, what is it that is holding you back from taking the first step? Are you waiting to have the entire plan to your million dollar company finalized before you start preparing for the opening of that company and bring it into existence?
We will never have all the answers to life. And we don’t need them. It’s ok to be clueless sometimes, because the next step is the only one that will determine how further we can go.
Just think of the people who have started companies. Take Mark Zuckerberg for example, the founder of CEO, back when he was at Harvard doing his studies, he didn’t know how further the Facebook idea would take him, and now years later it has turned him into a multi billionaire. If he had waited long enough until his plan was a billion dollar company idea, he wouldn’t have made it because you don’t get to the top overnight. You have to take many little steps.
So go ahead and take that first step. You might doubt yourself; you might not have all the answers, but that’s alright. As long as you keep on going, you will make it. you may fail on your way, don’t despair, you have learned something someone who hasn’t tried anything doesn’t know. You are better off now than you once were.
So today when you pray to your God for guidance, don’t ask to him to give you all the answers, pray that He gives you the courage to take the first step, and that first step will take you far. Just like a baby taking his first step, and learning to walk as he goes, so will you figure out everything about your trade as you go. There is no need for you to know how to manage 100 people when you are still small and have no employees but yourself. Have the decency to learn how to cross the bridge when you get to it.
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