What Did You Just Call Yourself?

 You're going to do what?

A young Walt Disney once told his family he was going to make a living as a cartoonist. He told them at a time when cartooning was almost unheard of and appeared only in newspapers as editorial illustrations. Motion pictures were new and still silent at the time and there were no animated cartoons shown in movie houses. 

His father asked him "how are you going to do that?" to which Disney replied, "I don't know". History goes on to show that he not only made a living as a cartoonist, but he radically changed the entertainment industry and created a pan generational empire.

15 minutes of Experience

When President Kennedy set a goal for America to walk on the moon before 1970, at the time he made that bold objective, America had spent a total of only 15 minutes in space, and we hadn't even put a man in earth orbit yet. Many thought it impossible. The technology for going to the moon didn't exist, we had no plan on how to do it and there was Kennedy saying we're not just going to get there but we'll be the first. Not only was the goal reached but America to this day is the only nation to do so and it propelled the USA into a leadership role of manned spaceflight.

Two good, real-life stories about doing something no one in their right minds would do. We have to know what we want but you don't always have to know how to do it. Just start it.