Start

10-2–19 Wednesday

 

 

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com

 

We are out of the room special… but I am working on it! 

708-747-3500 Holiday inn 1 room 2 double beds $79

work out room, pool sauna 

 

Hey you… yeah you… you want to start something?

 

How to start something

 

*Your mindset should start with what can I learn… not what I can get out of it (money, fame, position etc…) 

If this is your mindset you will always win even if you fail. 

 

*Know that there are WAVES in the starting and its just like quitting.

You muscle up and do 3 days in a row of starting something (business, exercise plan, working on your book) 

You will hit a wall, but if you keep doing it, you will go 9 more days… and then you will hit a wall…. but if you keep doing it you will hit another wall in 21 days…. but if you keep doing it you will hit a wall at 30 days (this is 63 days in the wave) At that point keeping at it is easier and easier as long as you keep goals pushing you. Without goals, even after 63 days you can just drop out. 

You can have discipline, but goals are the oil that keeps it going. 

 

*Don’t try to write out a master plan… just start. I think everyone gets excited writing out the master plan… oh yea! but when things don’t go as planned we lose energy and excitement… because it’s not going as planned. DuH! So don’t write out a master plan, just start and keep going… the DNA is wet so just let it grow on it’s own. Honestly… TDA had a master plan written behind it… and none of it went as planned… so at one point we just said “lets just roll and see what happens… and we are starting to gel”. 

 

*Start one thing… and stick to one thing. Don’t let your thing grow into things. I started a company called BWP. After a few years it really took off and was a huge success… we won some national awards, traveling all over North America but then we started to branch out, do t shirts, curriculum, develop new fields of interest, retreats, day camps etc… we got away from what we were originally about… and it wore us out. 

 

*You don’t have to start a big thing… look we all have dreams of 

becoming famous, making millions, living the dream… But the reality is if starting something new - we only made a difference in more peoples lives, live out more of our potential and learned some stuff… it’s all worth it. A great life starts with great stories… great stories start out with trying new things and taking chances… Just start!

 

 

*TDA conference is going to be only the first stage of what we do… I don’t know what will change next time, but I am starting.

I want cool music, I want knife throwing, I want great practical speakers that talk on all topics… And things started falling into place as we started planning. 

AND NEXT YEAR IT WILL BE EVEN MORE DIFFERENT AND BETTER! 

And what else will the TDA be doing? I am not sure but it will make men better more complete followers of Jesus…. and it will always be real, Jesus centered and somewhat on the edge. 

 

*The beauty of starting something is not knowing where it will end up. Don’t confuse this point with what we talked about a few minutes ago… Your start may evolve or pivot into something new… that’s ok, but don’t let it turn into a 100 other things! 

You probably love Odeo and don’t even know it

(it’s now twitter, but it started as network for finding podcasts)

Or the Point a fundraising website that is now Groupon

AND I know you love Burbn… which is now Instagram. 

Tote is now Pinterest

Suzuki is now… well Suzuki but they used to make sewing machines.

 

You may start a diet plan only to fall in love with volleyball… and become a coach and change kids lives

You may start a diet only to fall in love with cooking… and start a restaurant 

You may start a book only to write a childrens books and become an editor for kids cartoons

You invent a new exercise widget and sell it for millions and invest that into ministries that save kids from sex trafficking. 

 

I have been working on an app for 3 years and we are just about to launch it this year… It will compete with Craigslist, eBay, offer up, let go etc… I have no idea where it will end up… what it will ultimately become, but after a huge round of capital and investors and time -wether it grows or blows… I started! what are you going to do! 

 

 

Plant all your seeds

Ecclesiastes 11: 

1 Ship your grain across the sea;

    after many days you may receive a return.

2 

Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight;

    you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.

3 

If clouds are full of water,

    they pour rain on the earth.

Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north,

    in the place where it falls, there it will lie.

4 

Whoever watches the wind will not plant;

    whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

5 

As you do not know the path of the wind,

    or how the body is formed[a] in a mother’s womb,

so you cannot understand the work of God,

    the Maker of all things.

6 

Sow your seed in the morning,

    and at evening let your hands not be idle,

for you do not know which will succeed,

    whether this or that,

    or whether both will do equally well.