http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/the-big-ideas/topics/ready-fire-aim en-us 60 <p>Ready! Aim! Fire!</p><p>That&rsquo;s the way we&rsquo;re &ldquo;supposed&rdquo; to do it, right?</p><p>Get ready&hellip; </p><p>then aim&hellip; (make sure you aim perfectly!) &hellip; then (is your aim totally perfect? I mean, you&rsquo;re definitely going to hit it the first time, right?!?) &hellip; then &hellip; (ah shit! Need to plan some more and really get the calculations right b/c I don&rsquo;t want to mess this up) &hellip; </p><p>What happened to firing?!!?</p><p>Tragically, if we&rsquo;re not careful, we&rsquo;ll easily fall into the dreaded Ready! Aim! Aim! Aim! Aim! Aim! Aim! cycle where we NEVER do anything and spend all of our time preparing and planning and <em>getting ready </em>to fire.</p><p>Not so good.</p><p>A much better alternative?</p><p>Ready! Fire! Aim!</p><p>Take a shot. The moment you try something, you have a data point&mdash;THEN you can adjust your aim waaaaayyyyyyy more effectively then if you just kept on planning in your head.</p><p>So, get ready. FIRE! And then aim.</p><p>(I know it&rsquo;s a little freaky but try it. I think you&rsquo;ll like it.)</p> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:43:20 -0000 forums.thinkarete.com:503:409:409 brian http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/503/topics/409