Successful People Start Before They Feel Ready

Successful people don't wait to be tapped, chosen, appointed, or nominated. They start before they feel ready. They tell themselves, “It doesn't matter whether or not it's my fault that I'm here. This is who I am and it's my responsibility to do something about it.”The chosen ones choose themselves.

Take, for example, the ambition to “make your venture-backed startup profitable”: to develop, market, and distribute a product or service that’s never existed before, in a form that’s valuable and accessible enough for large numbers of people to want to pay you for it, in sufficient quantity that your revenue consistently exceeds your costs.

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Avoid the fate of the lion: stop gazing at all the options and just get started. Starting before you feel ready is one of the [habits of successful people.