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RULE 08 OF 13 · PART 3: THE RESPONSE

Make the smallest move into uncertainty.

Three steps, not fifty. One change, kept.

WHERE YOU ARE · MOVE 5 OF 6: MAKE THE SMALLEST MOVE

CHAPTER 08THE SMALLEST MOVE0:00

Maybe you're the man with the plan.

Illustration: a list unrolling into a staircase that climbs out of sight, and the same man taking the first of three big steps toward an open door
PLATE · CHAPTER 08THE SMALLEST MOVE

It lives in the notes app on your phone, or in a spreadsheet you open late at night. You've researched it and priced it, and you've told almost nobody, because telling someone would start the clock.

You will never know how much opportunity you lost while you were deciding. It doesn't show up on any statement. So start with the smallest move. Three steps, not fifty. One change, kept. Every day spent planning is a day the problem charges you and pays you nothing.

Chapter 8 covers why big goals aren't the problem, starting before you raise the money, one hour to fix a failing project, and what to do when every option is bad.

THE RULE, AGAIN

Every problem has a price, and every problem pays.

THE DEBT
THE PAYMENT
Every day spent planning is a day the problem charges you and pays you nothing.
The first step starts the payment, and it's due tonight.

NOBODY GETS TO NOT PAY. YOU ONLY GET TO CHOOSE THE COLUMN.

SAY IT OUT LOUD

One change I keep is worth more than a million dollars.
DO THIS TODAYRULE 08

Take your biggest problem. Cut the plan down to three steps. Do the first one before you go to sleep tonight. Not well. Just done.

THE NEXT MOVE

The full chapter is in the book.

The stories, the objections and the teaching behind Rule 8 are in Chapter 8 of Problems Pay.