“Should you select to not resolve, you continue to have decided,” is a truism surprisingly popularized each by René Descartes, the seventeenth century French thinker, and Rush, the prog rock band.
We will all the time analyze extra information and write extra determination bushes, however we by no means have 100% confidence in how issues are going to prove after making a choice. There’s all the time a leap of religion sooner or later.
One my favourite “leap of religion” tales is the well-known origin of Harmless Drinks. The three founders, Richard Reed, Adam Balon, and Jon Wright, spent six months in 1998 engaged on smoothie recipes whereas working day jobs in promoting and consulting.
At some point they introduced their new smoothies to Parsons Inexperienced in London for a jazz pageant, with an indication over their sales space that learn, “Ought to we hand over our jobs to make these smoothies?” There have been two trash bins for the empty cups, one marked “sure” and one marked “no”. By the tip of the pageant, the “sure” bin was full and the “no” bin had solely 3 cups in it. The three founders all resigned from their day jobs to begin engaged on Harmless full-time.
Harmless later grew to become an enormous hit, however success was removed from safe. It took a very long time for them to get funding and longer nonetheless to show the enterprise. However the determination to make the leap began all of it.
Final week I shared my 20-year cartooniversary of Marketoonist. For the primary eight years, it was a nights-and-weekends interest. Twelve years in the past this month, I made my very own “leap of religion” determination to resign my day job and deal with it full-time.
I had been idling on the choice for some time. I had a marketing strategy and income equal to half the wage of my day job, however I struggled with truly making the choice to leap. Till, lastly, I did. The entire assist I obtained from that “Making the Leap” announcement had been just like the cups within the Harmless “sure” bin to me. They helped give me confidence in my determination to make the leap.
I gave a private 20-minute discuss “Making the Leap” on the Do Lectures in Wales a yr after that call. I’m sharing it right here in case a few of you may relate:
And right here’s a “Making the Leap” cartoon I drew the week I stop my day job to deal with Marketoonist full-time (together with just a few different associated ones I’ve drawn over time):
“If advertising saved a diary, this could be it.”
– Ann Handley, Chief Content material Officer of MarketingProfs
