Monday Morning Motivational Message - Perfect Timing

How many times have you waited for the perfect timing before doing something? 

It's been said that "Timing is everything." But how do you know when the right time to do something will be?

Many people wait to start jobs, families, and even businesses until everything is perfect. 

Unfortunately, perfection is an illusion. There is no perfect job, relationship, or person.  

The following is a list of companies that started when things were not only imperfect but the economy or country was mired in incredibly difficult times:

 - Fortune Magazine was started 90 days after the market crash of 1929

 - FedEx was begun during the oil crisis of 1973

- (Standard Oil) John D. Rockefeller bought out his partners and started Standard Oil during the final year of the U.S. Civil War in 1865  

- Coors Beer was founded during the depression of 1873

- Costco was started during the recession in the 1970s

- General Motors began during the economic crisis of 1907

- Microsoft was founded during the 1973-75 recession

- LinkedIn was started in 2002, right after the post-dot-com bubble burst

None of these organizations began when things were perfect. Just the opposite, they were founded during some of the worst business or economic conditions a company could face.

But all of them have survived and prospered, some for more than a century, because their founders took a chance and were willing to risk it all, with the understanding that the timing might not be perfect, but they were going to figure it out as the need arose and the organization grew.

If you want to grow, if you want to improve, if you want to get better, step outside your mindset of everything needing to be perfect; jump in, take risks, cause something to happen, and believe in yourself enough to know you will figure it out as you move forward and flourish.  

​Leave me a comment about your thoughts regarding starting something even when the timing might not be perfect.