Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

LEAP AND THE NET WILL APPEAR
The first part of courage is the courage to launch in the direction of
your goal. It is the ability and willingness for you to set a goal and
then take the first step in the direction of achieving it.
In a 12-year study at Babson College, entrepreneurial instructor
Dr. Robert Ronstadt searched for the reasons for success or failure
among the graduates of the business school. Some went on to build
successful businesses, but most did not. He discovered that those
who built successful businesses had a special quality. It was that they
had the courage to launch their businesses with 
no guarantees
of suc-
cess. They were willing to risk failure in the pursuit of their dreams.
Professor Ronstadt called this the “corridor principle.” He said
that when you launch toward your goal, however distant, you begin
to move down a corridor of time. As you move down this corridor,
other doors of opportunity will open up on either side of you. But
you would not have been able to see these other doors of opportu-
nity if you were not already in motion down this psychological cor-
ridor toward your goal.
Most people who succeed in life achieve their success in an area
completely different from the field in which they started off. But be-
cause they were in motion, they saw opportunities and possibilities
that they would not have been aware of if they had waited until
everything was just right. And the fact is that everything will never
be just right.