#169 - Stop Thinking, Start Executing • Imelda Mendoza

And, you know, we talk about this a lot, just having a beginner's mindset, you know, just always being curious because... as we get older and I guess wiser, we think we are, we become more conservative and fearful in a lot of ways.

And the, the naive nature, there's a way to say that like naivety or something, I don't know, but you're being naive is, is super helpful, you know, because otherwise you probably wouldn't have started if you, if you knew, you know, then what, you know, now, and, and the other thing is, that I talk about a lot.

And this just happened to me.

I was at a corporate retreat with a good friend of mine.

We were out in the woods.

And he says, let's get up and go for a hike at 530.

Now, we're recording this in the fall.

And so up where I am at 530, it's pitch black.

And so we get up at 515.

And I say to my buddy, I'm like, dude, we can't hike.

It's pitch black.

He's like, we got a flashlight.

And we're in the middle of the woods.

We don't know where we're going.

We're on a trail.

Right.

But we don't know where the trail is taking us.

And the point is the flashlight we could see about four or five feet in front of us.

And that allowed us to take the next step forward.

And then ultimately we finished like this two mile hike in the pitch black.

And we only saw a few feet in front of us.

So when you say I was only able to see one mile.

I think there's so much power in that.

You know, I think we believe we have to see it all or know it all.

But you can only be able to see the first few steps in front of you and get to wherever you want to go.