#BYOG Day Thirty-One: Tear It Down & Build It Again

We’re here!

Thirty-one glorious(?) days later, and what have you learned? What have you uncovered inside yourself?

I won’t speak for you, but my own journey has left me with a truck-load of feelings, ideas, and other goodness:

• That you are enough just as you are.
• That you will face hurdles and overcome them – if you so choose.
• That people will rally around you when they believe in you – no matter who you are, and even if they never met you before.
• That there are a lot of smartypants people in the world, willing to lend a hand, offer advice, and point you in the right direction.

But all of that stuff means nothing if you’re not willing to take action. To do something. To be fearless – even for just a moment…

…just long enough to become the hero of your journey.

It means that the excuses must stop. You can’t make excuses and deliver results. You must choose.

You have to step into the flow, and trust that the actions you take will build the bridge to success.

And you’ll make mistakes along the way. You’ll create things no one wants but you. You’ll miss out on opportunities that you thought were perfect for you. You’re an Action Hero – getting banged around and bloodied up a bit is part of the journey.

But you’ll meet up with your Shadow Self, have a nice chat, maybe a cuppa tea, and iron out your differences.

And you’ll re-double your efforts, re-commit, and tear down the old stuff to make room for the new.

And Divine Intervention will take over: connecting you to books, authors and thought leaders, clients and colleagues that will cheer you on, lift you up, and show you exactly what you’ve been missing – and how to correct your course.

Nowhere is this better illustrated than in Eric Ries’ new book, The Lean Startup. He tells the story of how his team spent months building a barely functional prototype for what would later become IMVU – and people wouldn’t use it. It wasn’t “cool enough” for people to share it with their friends. But Eric didn’t give up. He and his team tore it apart, and re-built it to meet the needs of the market he was trying to serve. He persevered. He listened. And he grew his company into a multi-million dollar organization that’s dominating their market and put Eric on the map (and in the boardrooms of America) today.

Would you invest 6 months of your life in a project that didn’t work, only to put more time, energy and money into improving it until it DID work?

You’ve just invested 31 days of your life in this program. What are YOU going to do now?

Me? I’ve got an idea I’ve been toying with for a couple of days now. I want to launch a project on 1/1/12, and I want to take you behind the scenes and show it to you as I build it. Right here on the blog. I’m scared as hell, because it’s one part reality show and one part business venture. If it succeeds, it will succeed mightily. If it fails, it’s a horrible public failure.

It’ll either be Kitty Hawk or The Hindenburg, and if you’re interested, I’d love for you to tag along. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

Congratulations on making it to the end of this 31 day journey. If you haven’t already signed up for the downloads that go along with this program, you can do that in the box atop this page. As soon as we have everything put together, you’ll be notified.

Thanks again for joining me on this adventure. Until we meet again!