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How can filling in the gaps help you move forward? That's my question for today.
My name is Simon Crabb. I'm an online business consultant. I help online business owners
grow their businesses.
Filling in the gaps, what am I talking about here? Well, this is the phrase that I like
to use for what some people call, they call things like "massive, imperfect action" or
"minimum effective dose". Or the point of taking action, getting on with something even
though you don't know all the answers and you fill in the gaps later on as you go.
I was fixing my car the other day, just something I enjoy doing, and I was doing something I
have never done before. I was working on a part of the car that I never looked, never
even seen before and I didn't know how to do it.
What I did is I got started. I started taking it apart and as I progressed, I solved the
problems, I filled in the gaps and before I knew it, the job was done.
My point here is not the fact that I could have taken it to a garage and done it half
the time, the point here is that I enjoy it, that's why I was doing it. The point here
is that I took action.
I didn't know how to solve this problem but I got on with it. I took action, I started
taking it apart, started looking at the components, started looking how it all fits together and
I filled in the gaps later on.
This is really useful process that when you don't know how to do something, it's not a
reason to not do it. Just because you don't know how to do it, it's not a good reason,
get started anyway. Whatever the project is, get started, just do something, begin, make
progress and fill in the gaps later on. The gaps will often close themselves, you won't
even notice that there was a gap there.
Sometimes, you'll get to the point where there is a gap and there might be a gap in your
knowledge. We may need to go out to gain some knowledge, get some training, get some help,
get some advice.
Other times, you'll naturally fill in the gaps for you.
Take action, move forward and fill in those gaps.
I'm Simon Crabb and that's all for today.