By Glen Tibaldeo
I remember reading years ago that Will Smith was on the set of a movie in New Zealand. They were filming on a super tall bluff with waves crashing on rocks below. Will couldn’t stand being afraid of jumping–so he did. Luckily, he landed in a place where the rocks weren’t and survived, but the article said that the production company suspended filming until he underwent mandatory therapy. I remember the buzz at the time was that Will Smith had a severe mental disorder.
Now I was looking for something confirming what I remember on the Internet and couldn’t find it, so take the story above with a grain of salt. But when you watch this video, you see how it is a plausible story. But is being obsessed with that in which you believe and that which you want to do a mental disorder? If so, sign me up!
And yet, that’s not why I’m writing this. What caught my eye is something that we believe and is in our Life Leaps Quick-Launch Brain Teaser that we are posting as a free gift next week for signing up with us. Will talks about building a wall. He says that you shouldn’t look at the project as building the wall. Rather, you should focus on laying each brick day-by-day with precision and perfection. This is what Dan and Chip Heath call shrinking the change in their awesome book Switch.
We all see walls when we first consider our Life Leap. It’s human nature. If we can just see bricks, it’s much easier to make the decision to start, and it’s much easier to get to where you’re going.
Do you have a big dream you’re stuck on that could seem so much smaller if you just wrote down the first 10 steps? Or have you achieved something critical that you wouldn’t have otherwise if you hadn’t broken it down?