Ready.. FIRE!!! Aim..

Do you want to know a secret in achieving something? Here's a little secret my father and I have been using ever since. In achieving a goal, instead of going for the traditional way of hitting a target (Ready, Aim, Fire!), we go for the unconditional one (Ready, FIRE!, Aim).

I was also able to play this game from my iPod Touch called, Archers (Screen shot above). In this game, all you see is yourself (or your character I mean) holding a bow and arrow. BUT, you have to hit your target, your enemy, without even seeing him! Now if it were you, will you Ready your bow and start aiming forever and won't fire unless you see the target? Or You Ready You Bow, your Fire it, and once you see the target, that's where you start aiming?

According to one of my favorite Business and Marketing Book, Rework, Planning is Guessing. When you're trying to fire at a target but you're still in the Ready-Aim Phase, you're still Guessing, not really Planning. Writing a plan makes you feel in control of things you can't actually control. If you write a big plan, there's also a very big chance you'll never look at it anymore and would just pile up as fossils in your file cabinet. You never get any work done.

The only thing lacking is the risk involved. But the so-called risks involved are just nightmares that you made up because of fear. You're afraid to take risks because of a nightmare or tragedy that could happen, but I tell you, there are more probabilities for a positive or neutral outcome than your nightmares will. It's much easier to correct a mistake you made from your decision than by missing the opportunity.

In another Marketing Book I've read, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, "Anything worthwhile doing is worthwhile doing lousy". "If it is worthwhile doing and you wait until you can do it perfectly, if you procrastinate, you run the risk of not doing it. Ever." And another quote from the book is "Your reputation will probably be better within the company if you try many times and succeed sometimes than if you fear failure and only try for sure things.

In our case, my father and I are already so use to taking risks and jumping towards business negotiations and opportunities without even knowing what would be the right thing to do at first. We were able to make a lot of businesses with other people just because of this simple but unconventional principle. So far in our experience, no "made-up" nightmares happened, instead we succeeded with our business transactions. :)

So start firing and aim later! You can just achieve a lot of things with this technique for sure! If you've tried this technique already, please share to us your experiences by commenting below. :)