If I had money
If I had the right connections
If I had investors
If I lived in Silicon Valley
If I went to the right college
If I had wealthy parents and friends
And my all-time favorite
If I had time

If if if if if if if

One of the smallest, wimpiest looking words ever , and quite possibly the biggest killer of human potential.

Do you remember when you learned to ride a bicycle? Did you say to yourself, …Self, if only I had a professional bicycle trainer to teach me this? Did you say if only I had special bike racing shoes? Did you say if only I had that golden plated bike THEN I would learn really how to ride a bike? Of course not. What did you do? You just got on the damn bike and rode it. You wobbled uncontrollably. You fell at times. Maybe you even skinned your knee. Boohoo. But you kept doing it. You got the hang of it. Eventually.

You did not put stupid conditions upon yourself for making progress. The word “if” probably wasn’t even in your vocabulary. And it shouldn’t be now.

Kill the if.

There comes a time in business, hopefully, when you realize that the situation you’re in is almost 100% the result of?? YOU.

How about instead of all those ifs you concentrate on

*what you can do
*with what you have
*where you are right now

The rest will follow. Because that’s the way business works. Hell, that’s the way life works.

And guess what? It’s enough. You’re enough.

Kill the if. Slaughter it. Destroy it.

Kill the if.