Compared to everyone around me, I’m not the best thinker, writer, speaker, leader, organizer, coach, or blogger.
I’m not the best risk-taker, strategist, fundraiser, relationship manager, pipeline-generator, or closer.
Nor am I the best author, researcher, public speaker, project manager, course designer, facilitator, data analyzer, financial planner, business modeler, lean startup doer, creator, thinker, researcher or innovator.
The good news is, it is not my job to be the best.
My job, first and foremost, is to care the most.
Then I have to turn that caring into a willingness to put myself on the line.
Then I need to translate that into fierce dedication to follow-through, relentless commitment to outcomes, ongoing openness to learning, and strong orientation to partnership. I must be able to see where I know enough already, where I can learn things I need to learn, and where others will be better placed than I am to take parts of the work forward.
Someone else is always going to be better than I am, smarter, more experienced, or more capable in some way.
But my decisions about what I will do, what role I choose to play, what steps I will take next, where I choose to take the reins – these will never get out of the gate if they go through a “best at” filter.
