Let Go of The Illusion of Control
My favorite movie so far this summer has been Kung Fu Panda, and my favorite character from the movie is Master Oogue. I’m an Oogue fan for two reasons, first he is super wise and second, despite the fact that he is obviously a high-mileage turtle, he is fast when he needs to be.
So how does this relate to online business? One thing in particular which Oogue says to Shifu, “let go of the illusion of control”, I think resonates especially well in the world of online business.
Human beings, as creatures of habit, naturally want to feel in control. The problem is that in the crazy world of growing your own business, rarely are things ever under control.
I know that I would be most comfortable believing that success in business is about creating some sort of master plan and following every step to a tee. In reality however, business is more about having some far reaching vision and then being willing to adventure your way to get to it.
On his blog, GoDaddy.com founder and CEO Bob Parsons, has posted his “16 Rules”. For anyone who has not read this list of success principles I suggest you check them out, they provide a lot of motivation crammed into one blog post. In the explication of Rule 15, Parsons says that “Often, at least half of what we accomplish is due to luck.”
If this is true, then we should consider how to put this luck principal into work for our advantage. I would suggest that a certain percentage of the ideas we come up with to grow our business, if applied will turn out to be winners. So then it follows that the more things we try and the more experiments we conduct the faster our business should grow.
