Monday 16 August 2010

Monday's Quote - Paul Arden


When it can’t be done, do it.  If you don’t do it, it doesn’t exist.


Ran across this quote again while re-reading It's Not How Good You are, It's How Good You Want to Be.  I love this book, and re-read it a lot whenever I see it in a store.  It's short and a fast read and full of truth.  It's not at all self-helpy, but it is helpful.  

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Arden is not someone who couldn't be successful in life, so decided to coach other people while making bucks off their confusion.  He is someone with a lot of wit, and exceptional communication skills.

I think this quote is great advice - like most of the advice in the book - because it gives us great freedom to fail.  Go do it simply because it doesn't exist.  If you do a bad job, probably no one will find out about, so essentially, it still won't exist.  Thus the opportunity is still there for you to create it again and again until it is right and people do notice.  And if it can't be done, nobody's going to blame you for trying.


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