Due to my activity, I have met several Business Owner and or Public Speaker in my life. Sometime I got some interesting mindset approach from them. From many metaphors about mindset that I got, these 3 are among my Favorites.
- Traffic Light Syndrome.
Many of you would agree that when you’re driving a car and then you see a Red light, it means you need to Stop. And when it’s a Green light, it means you could Go. However in life, so many people try to wait for their Green light before doing anything. Most of them think that now is the Red light. Usually the conditions that would be associated to Red light are bad economy situation, bad political situation, bad timing and so on.
But the truth is, sometime the Red light is only exist in our mind. In fact, actually there might be no traffic light at all.
*note : this is only a metaphor, please always drive safely. - LHF (Lowest Hanging Fruits).
Imagine you are in the forest in the middle of nowhere. And you are hungry and need something to eat. You see many trees in front of you and most of them have fruits. So what will you do ? Will you go and find the Lowest Hanging Fruits to ensure your survival. Or you try to grab the highest hanging fruits ? Considering all fruits are pretty much similar, it would be make more sense if you go to the Lowest Hanging Fruits.
So you need to always look around, the Lowest Hanging Fruits might be there all these times without you realizing it. - Fire!!! And then Aim.
How many of you think that before you fire, you need to aim first. Well, I think it will be almost everyone. But if you aim too long because you want to make sure you hit the target in 1 shot, you might miss another target. The logic of this Fire and Aim mindset is, you try to Fire first, and then if it missed, you just aim it closer to your target.
I have found in my life that when I Fire first, another bigger target (read:chances) would appears to me. If I waste my time to aim the first target, I would not notice that the second target (much more precious target) was there.
There are still dozens of other great metaphors that I learned, but these 3 had given a Big Impact in my life. I will not go into details about how I apply those into my life, because it will be too long for just only a Blog article. Anyway I hope by sharing these principles, some of you out there could learn something new in your journey to success.
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