An old crocodile floated on the riverbank doing nothing, when a young crocodile approaches him and asks how he could be a successful hunter.
The old crocodile ignored him, closed his eyes and continued floating while he slept.
The young crocodile moved to an area where there were several birds drinking water, but when they arrived hastily, they all fled.
He went back to the old crocodile and asked him again how he could be a successful hunter, but he still did not get an answer.
The young crocodile came out angry and swiftly began to walk towards the end of the river, approaching any animal that was near the shore, but before the movement of the young crocodile, all the animals escaped.
At the end of the afternoon, the young crocodile felt discouraged and frustrated when he observed how the old crocodile floated on the same shore without doing anything, but a buffalo had come to drink water and was a few meters from the big crocodile.
In a matter of seconds, the crocodile came out of the water, hooked the buffalo around its neck with its sharp teeth and dragged it into the water.
While enjoying his banquet, the young crocodile approached him and asked:
"Please ... tell me ... how did you do that?
... and the old crocodile replied: "... I DO NOT DO ANYTHING".
We live in a society in which we boast of always being busy, as if that were a good thing.
How many times have you heard a conversation like the following:
"Hello, how long without seeing ... how are you going?"
"... well, I'm very busy and I do not have time anymore".
"... Good keep it up."
We have the idea that to be successful, you must dedicate hours and hours of work to obtain results, and although there is some truth in the matter, it is also true that many of those hours may not be productive at all, and we are losing something very valuable. For the human being and that we can not buy: Our time.
I am sure that few times a year you take the time to disconnect yourself from all the mundane noise to reflect and think, without noise, without distractions.
You get up early in the morning, take your children to school and quickly go to work. At work you spend 8 or 9 hours with a thousand things in your head. When you leave work, you will listen to the radio to get distracted, pick up your children and take them to an extracurricular activity (soccer, English, chess, yoga ...). When you get home you are so tired that you shower and dine while watching your favorite Netflix series before going to bed to start the next day with the same routine.
If you realize, you have not had time all day to take a moment of silence, without noise, without distractions to think.
Doing more is not better
Today I read about how 10 projects you create on the Internet, only 2 are successful.
It has caught my attention because it is something that also happens to me and I thought it was a problem of mine to have the fever to undertake on the Internet and not focus on 2 or 3 projects at most.
Do you find it familiar?
You create a page
Work on it for a few weeks, but you do not get results as fast as you want.
A few days later, we will find another profitable niche, we will create another page and we will go through the same process ... and when you realize it, you will have 10 or 12 projects in your hosting, totally abandoned.
Why?
Maybe because you have not taken enough time and you need to think:
- Can this page really be profitable?
- Is there really little competition in Google to position myself?
- Can I do something different to stand out among my competitors?
- Do I really want to dedicate myself to this project?
There is nothing more exasperating than spending hours and hours during several months in a project with which you will not get results afterwards.
Maybe you have not yet managed to create a successful blog because you do not dedicate the necessary hours, or maybe because you're wasting your time on a blog that will never succeed ... all because you have not taken the time to think if it worked.
The power to do nothing.
Maybe you find yourself in a situation similar to mine and many others, where you are doing like the young crocodile, stumbling from one side to the other, when perhaps what you need to do is like the old crocodile: take the time to do nothing, Until you surrender with the perfect idea or the ideal situation to jump on your prey.
That's why I recommend you try to disconnect from your busy life from time to time.
Once a week (Saturdays or Sundays) and maybe one or two weeks a year, try to disconnect from everything: turn off your mobile, disconnect from social networks, do not watch series on Netflix ... and take some time for your family, to walk by nature, do not do anything ... Maybe in one of those moments there is the opportunity or the perfect idea to develop and with which, if successful.