Permission vs Ownership.
Have you ever thought… gee, I wish I could do that. Or, I wish I could I could just do something the way I want to do it. Without the fear of rejection and a flood of ad-hominem critics?
Are you asking for permission to be a photographer, or a designer or a business owner?
Are you asking for permission to do it your way?
Are you asking for permission to do it in a way that may not be the most popular way?
Well stop it.
No one is going to give you permission.
Because it is not theirs to give.
You don’t need permission to shoot Micro 4/3 cameras. You don’t need permission to create a business plan. You don’t need permission to start an online store, or create something you love to do every day.
You don’t need permission to take business classes, workshops, seminars or mentoring engagements from those who never have.
You don’t need permission to start a business if you are ready, or to quit one if you are not.
You don’t need permission to succeed, to write a book, take a class, learn to paint, travel to places you have never been before.
You don’t need to seek approval from those who will never give it for reasons you will never know.
The crowd wants to lead you to their path. It makes them more comfortable when you walk the same roads they do, make the same choices they do, and offer up the same product they do. The comfort is in the herd, and outsiders make them nervous.
Your choice of getting permission, and being led to the ‘path of the mediocre’ makes them very happy. It gives them tacit approval and ‘permission’ to keep on that same path.
You do not need permission, you need ownership.
Ownership is taking the path YOU want to take. Making a life the way YOU want to make it. Your way. Your style. Your vision.
Even if that vision is not the most popular. And – even if it is.
The fear of not getting permission to fail, to try, to exceed, to go on your own is debilitating, and – in the end – certainly not real.
Own your choices, learn from them and keep moving forward.
Do not ask for permission.
And do not give it.