Today I want to help you change the perspective and interpretation of a well-coined phrase to help decrease your learning curve in your business as an entrepreneur.
Have you ever used the phrase: “Well, back to the drawing board!”?
I still remember when I first learned this phrase as a youth that I couldn’t wait to use it. I just didn’t know when I’d be able to use it. Finally, when I figured out how to get to use that phrase, I had already incorporated a strategy to recreate a certain process over and over again.
So, what usually happens when we say, “You know, time to go back to the drawing board”? It means we hit a wall and we have to start over, in essence, and try a different way. What we forget to realize is WHY we have to go back to the drawing board.
Any time you feel like you need to start over because you tried something and it didn’t work, most likely the reason why you have to go back to the drawing board is because you were trying to take too big of a step, too big of a stride, and instead of going back to the drawing board and rehashing the whole thing, try this strategy instead:
When you go back to the drawing board of a project that you want to accomplish to hit a specific goal, that you go back and you chop up the steps. Try to see the going back to the drawing board component as the feedback indicator that you took too big of a step and see what would happen if you chop up those steps into smaller baby steps, redo the process and see if you still have to go back to the drawing board.
Oftentimes when we go back to the drawing board and come up with a whole different approach, we uncover a whole different set of challenges! This way, you’ll probably be able to refine the process to find out where the process actually fell short so that you can fix one tiny part instead of re-drawing the board
So, my challenge to you is this: Take a particular instance or a project or a goal that you have that you find yourself consistently going “back to the drawing board” and instead of redoing a whole new strategy or trying to think of and overwhelm yourself with the whole new strategy, chop up the steps that you took previously into even smaller ones and find out where it fell short from your goal.
So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and do that. Chop up your steps instead of going back to the drawing board and redo the whole thing and see what kind of results that you get.
