How often do we say that we support people and their dreams? How often have we been told that? Countless. Now, let’s compare that to the amount of time that proclaimed support has actually manifested into tangible support. I’m willing to guess that the conversion rate is in the single digits, both in the giving and receiving. We gotta do better.

I am Type A personality... always have been. I like to do things a certain way and I’m big on the pursuit of excellence.

“We are not doing anything halfway over here.”

I also tend to have a lot of ideas—good ones, I think—which is great in that I’m always looking for solutions, but overwhelming in that I’ve always struggled to figure out what idea to pursue. Couple that with that whole "gotta be perfect" trait and it equated to, yeah, absolutely NOTHING.

Waiting for the perfect idea, with the perfect, more excellent circumstances, was driving me crazy. The more I brainstormed an idea, the more I realized how much I didn't know about it, making me feel like it couldn't possibly be the "right" idea, so I would scrap it and move on to the next.