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Dad gave me a truly worried look. He said, "Aw son, just HIT 
thing."
Well, I did hit it then. And job only took five more minutes to finish. Oddly enough, even though I managed to hammer my hand two or three times, I was proud that I'd just gone ahead and done it.
Of course, Dad did practice what he preached. He had a whole quart jar on his dresser at home filled with broken watches that he'd smashed doing exactly what he was advising me to do. He kept them as a reminder, he said, that if you'll just go ahead and do job, you can afford to buy all watches you need.
But lesson I learned that day has never left me.
And even today, nearly 40 years later, when I'm tapping tentatively away on edges of some job or other, trying to launch a new website without making any mistakes, or trying to figure out which script I need to install but I'm reluctant to invest time to just install one and see what it does, I still sometimes hear my father's voice:
"Aw son, just HIT thing."
When I hear that, I have to grin because he's still urging me to take action, be less cautious. Just go ahead and get job done, never mind bumps and bruises.
And that's not a bad lesson to carry through life.
Charles Burke is the author of "Command More Luck," a book offering powerful suggestions for getting more cooperation from life, luck, and your own mind, especially in uncertain times. Whether you call it synchronicity, serendipity, or just plain old luck, you CAN become more "naturally lucky." Go to http://www.moreluck.com
