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Do the next right thing!

By Bamboo In The Wind

Stumbling? No worries. It's common. No one gets it right the first time. When we start out, we tend to falter. Our expectations of what would happen do not turn out correct and we feel the block. It all appears to be a dead-end and the end of the world. Such stoppages are all in our minds. What if we kept just a little room to say to ourselves, "Oh that does not seem to work. Never mind. Let me try that". 

Trying that instead of this is a powerful way to restart when we feel blocked. In fact, it is a hallmark of an entrepreneur or a bootstrapper. They want to keep doing the next best thing that is available. They do the next right thing as they perceive and do not hesitate to test those out in the market.

Can we keep doing the next right thing forever? Of course, we can. Of course, we should. Because we rarely have a good idea of what is likely to work. What is likely to receive acceptance. Through doing the next right thing we start unraveling our needs, our limitations, and importantly where our strengths are. Often we embark on doing something with our instinctive thoughts corroborated by stock research. What such an approach misses out on is that we do not understand if our ability to build something, or offer something is coupled with connections that will find it enticing to try out what we have. 

Such connection that is eager to hear (advice, coaching, mentoring, feedback) from us, get something (product or service) from us is representative of a viable audience that consumes our careful work. When such a viable audience lifts what we have offered, it has the potential to build powerful influence through the relevance of what is being offered.

If we see the audience is missing or the audience is unwilling to consume then it reflects our work is not yet relevant. 

The choice then is to abort what we are doing and stop. Or the alternative is to go do the next right thing that they might want.

Fulfillment is at the core of establishing engagement. It is generated iteratively and depends on continuing to do the next right thing!

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