How many times have you been excited about a task and couldn't wait to start it, only to find out half way through that it's not as fun as you thought it would be? Eventually you get frustrated enough that you quit or give up, and all that time and effort has gone to waste.
Quitting is different than giving up, when you decide to quit, you are making a conscience decision to stop what you are doing, you have weighed the pros and cons and come to the conclusion that what you are doing is not worth it anymore. When you give up, you have exhausted your mental and physical boundaries, you are confused and stressed out with no idea on how to proceed, so you stop doing it altogether. Quitting is always better than giving up.
If you have decided to do something new and completely foreign to you but you are still excited to try, then don't take on a huge task, do something smaller and easier to get a feel for it, if you can do that you are more likely to succeed than if you were to take on a larger task. If I wanted to build a house and have never done it before, maybe I would try to build a small shed first, to see how that would go before I tried my hand at a full blown house.
Give yourself and end date. No one wants to start something that never ends, and it doesn't have to be a large project either. It could be something as simple as a diet, in which you are going to do it for a month, to see if its working or not and to say you completed your task.
The more times you can complete many different tasks, the more likely you be open to try new ones, and you will also be more likely to try bigger and bolder things.
Most of us always want to start with the biggest most complex project, something that might make us money and pushes the limits of our resources but it usually comes at a high price when we can't finish or get overwhelmed.
KISS= Keep it simple stupid. This phrase is paramount when starting something new. Start small, keep it simple, affordable, and well within your abilities to finish it. If you can do that you almost always will.
Scott Goerz
