Ok so at 2:52 AM I was STARVING! My stomach could not stop making gurgle noises and it was impossible to stop thinking about cheese, soup, hash browns, chips, steak, nachos, tacos, burritos, Thai food, anything and EVERYTHING that could help quench my hunger.
So after half an hour of debating, Chad and I finally decided to go to the kitchen to boil an egg for me to eat with salsa (which is super yummy AND healthy by the way). And apparently, it takes around 18 minutes to boil an egg.
Right away Chad started to boil some water and placed an egg into the pot. So there was now 18 minutes counting down before I get to devour my egg with salsa. All I could do was look my watch. Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick tock…
I swear time slowed down and 1 second was actually taking 1 minute.
Ok so 15 minutes pass. There is only 3 more minutes to go. However, being a starving barbarian, I could not take it anymore and given that my stomach was yelling at me, I command Chad to take the egg out of the boiling water. Instead, I place the more than half boiled egg into a bowl and decide to microwave it. Why? Because microwaves are FAST which means my egg will boil FASTER! Chad tried to stop me in every humanly way possible and told me I was crazy and that the egg would explode. I debated with myself and decide that I was way too hungry, and besides, I’ll just put it in for 30 seconds. What harm could 30 seconds do anyway? I was STARVING! I wanted my egg NOW! I wanted to eat NOW! I wanted, I wanted, I wanted NOW!!!
The egg went in the microwave. Only 20 seconds passed…
POW! BANG! BAM!!!!!!!! EXPLOSION!
We almost had a heart attack, ran straight over, and opened the microwave door. Smoke came out. Egg was everywhere. Eggshells were everywhere. It was mushy. It was gushy. And it smelled.
Chad turned around and quickly said, “See? I told you! You always want to take the fast lane and wouldn’t be patient. I told you so! And you only had 3 minutes left before the egg would have been boiled too. Right now you would have finished eating your egg and we would be sleeping in dreamland.”
GRRRRR!!!
Lesson?
Stop trying to skip certain steps by trying to take the fast lane. There is no such thing as the fast lane. You have to go through each and every step. For example, the student who attempts to move directly from arithmetic to calculus will face an impossible unattainable situation. Same with any aspect of your life ranging from relationships to business. You would have infinitely better chances at success if you take all steps. Yes, some will take the steps faster than others, but if you take all steps you will be far more assured to get the things you really want.
Instead of having to boil the egg again :(
So if your business requires you to read a business manual, learn how to handle objections, attend trainings, watch a video, review a PowerPoint, and much more before you see success or start inviting people, then just DO IT! Stop skipping steps! That genius mathematician didn’t skip arithmetic before he learned calculus. So why should you? Find someone who has what you have and do what they do! Every single step of it!
Now I have to go back and wait another 20 minutes before another egg boils, and before my stomach finally gets the satisfaction it deserves. Sigh. Learn from my mistake yall!
