Channel: Richard Graham

Category: Howto & Style

Description: How to do something when you don’t know how to do it? First of all realize that not knowing how to do something is the best place to start. Because if you already knew how to do it you would have done it and it would be easy. But you want to do something that is hard, that is scary and that is maybe dangerous. Or it maybe that you do know how to do it but the price is too high. In that case reframe the question to be “How can I do this for a price that is acceptable?” Then there are two steps to making it happen: 1.Be aware. Your brain filters out so much of what we experience. But if you know what you want & what you have to do then your brain will start looking out for things that will help show you how. It might just be a word or a glance or an idea that you would have otherwise have missed. You may end up realising that you are not alone in this, that there are many other people who share the same goal as you. You may go from thinking this is something impossible, too scary, too dangerous to realizing that you are not alone. There are many people who want the exact same thing as you. 2. Don’t ask “How” instead ask “who” It’s very rare that we want to do something that no one has ever done before. Was it your parents 30 years ago? Or your grandparents 80 years ago? Was it someone from 150 years ago? If they are alive, ask them. Ask them what they did and how they did it. Don’t take it as a recipe but use it as inspiration to create your own plans. If they are long dead then read about them. Read their books and find out how they did what they did. There is very little on this planet that humans cannot do. Dream big, stay safe and stay strong.