Several years ago, in an effort to improve my public speaking ability, I joined a Toastmasters club.
This Toastmasters club had some unique characteristics, one – it was an all male club, and two- even by Silicon Valley standards, many of the club were quite affluent. One of the members, by all account the most affluent of the club, recounted a life experience that he credited for much of his success.
He said he was on a construction site of a multi-story building and opened a door to walk from one room to another, thinking the room behind the door was on the same level as the room he was leaving. Instead he fell eighteen feet to a concrete slab. The fall nearly killed him. But he recovered with a different attitude.
From that day on, if he had two or three different projects that he was interested in doing, but was having a difficult time making a decision as to which project to attempt, he just decided not to make that decision and did them all!
I have found this to be a very liberating and exciting attitude. It is also amazing what one can accomplish once one has this attitude.
