Rose Matlock Consulting

Recently, I was reminded that sometimes the hardest part is the first step but that rewards in life only accumulate when you “put yourself out there”.

Here at RMC, we are launching a new service in 2010.  Do we have the skills for it?  Sure.  The experience needed to pull it off?  Yet, it is personally uncharted territory and while we have the talent needed, it will be a new application for it.  Over the last few months, I have been surprised and thankful time and again as I have mentioned some of these new goals and how others have offered their advice, support and encouragement.  I have come too realize, that a goal inside your head can quickly turn from joy to terror as you constantly ask yourself questions that have no answer.

Instead, share your ambitions; enroll others in your vision for the future.  A manager I once worked with said, “The bigger your vision, the more people that can come along”.  If that is true, then one could also say that the more people you bring along, the bigger your vision can become.  Dell computers may have started in a college dorm room but it certainly did not stay there.  Dave Hewlett and Bill Packard may have started in a garage but it certainly did not stay there.  A desire left unrevealed is one that will eventually suffocate.

As you look to 2010, ask yourself what dreams, ideas and aspirations you have that have gathered cobwebs in your mind.  Its time to dust them off and offer them the light of day.  Will they all hold up?  No.  Are they all meant to be the “big one”?  No.  However, it is from the ruins of our mistakes that the seeds of our success are sown.  Most importantly, the big goals require more than one person’s hard work but often the combined talent and drive of many.  How can someone else sign up to help create your dream if you haven’t shared it with them?

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