Andy D Day

A Bird In The Bush Is Worth Two In The Hand

Have you noticed how often our culture, particularly in the UK, is to encourage people to stick with what they’ve got instead of pushing yourself to do more? How often have you heard the old adage that birds in the hand are worth more than birds in the bush? What’s this message supposed to be telling us?

Stick with what you’ve got.

Boring.

The truth is that what you’re looking at in the bush, is worth twice as much as what you’ve got now. The safe option is to stick with what you’ve got, but meanwhile opportunity is tweeting away right in front of you.

1o Decisions

Recently a friend was speaking to me about something that they’d been thinking about doing for a long time but had never put any effort into making it happen. I could tell that they’d put a lot of thought into planning how they could achieve what they’d been thinking about. Perplexed, I asked why they had never gone through with their plan. Their answer? They were afraid that if they did, it might turn out to be a bad decision.

What’s the problem with making bad decisions?

Do the maths (or math, if you’re a yank), I can either:

1. do nothing, no chance of a pay off.
2. do something, chance of a pay off.

Say I make 10 decision, five of them are bad and they put me into shitty situations. Four of them aren’t so bad, but I don’t get anywhere with them either, just shit decisions, no-one notices, phew. Finally, I make a half decent decision. It pays off, woot! So, I have some shit to deal with and a pay day.

We all get hit with moments of indecision, but a decision, even if it turns out to be bad is better than giving in to fear and doing nothing.