viking fridays – burn the boats.
July 25, 2008
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, and then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Many of us have ideas for change. Dreams we want to follow. But it is all too easy to become comfortable in our daily lives, and let things sit for “someday”.
Legend has it that* Viking commanders would order the warriors to burn their boats upon landing on enemy shores for battle. That way, there was no retreat – no surrender. The warriors had no choice but to press on to victory.
Pure motivation.
Applied to our daily lives and our desires to change, what does this mean?
Beware the man who has nothing to lose. He will accomplish more than could ever be imagined.
Many great things have been accomplished when there were no alternatives. Remember back to the Apollo 13 mission. The crew, with help from Mission Control, had to come up with an idea to save themselves, and execute that plan. Because it really mattered that time.
So we can sit around day in, day out, looking at our task lists, our motivational posters, all of these things which help us – and that’s great. I believe that we need this to maintain focus.
But eventually, you just have to burn the damned boat and get on with the battle.
Perhaps it is as simple as asking yourself, “If my life really depended upon this action, how would that change the way I approach it?”
Of course you know the answer – you’d just DO IT.
Your Viking homework assignment for the weekend is to pick one thing you’ve put off doing, and just DO IT.
It does not matter what it is.
Burn the boats.
Come back after the weekend and tell everyone how the battle went. I will do the same.
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*(at least, in my small corner of the universe, where warriors wear horned helmets and bake nice bread – hey, it’s my blog, I can write whatever I want! Actually, legend has it that the Greeks might have done this – but this is VIKING Fridays, not Greek Fridays, so my apologies to any history students reading this…)
Goethe really had it going on!! Wow, Brett: thanks for my new favourite quote!
You know, I really look forward to Viking Fridays, and I always smile when I see them on my reader. Yes! You never miss one. (You must not have had too much last night with Friar!)
I loved this post, and I feel extra determined today because of it. Since I don’t have work today, I’m taking this post and running with it. Never mind the weekend starting Saturday. It starts today.
Maybe I’ll start by donning my Viking helmet and baking nice bread. And then I’ll tackle that list James gave me of what to do for EditQuest. It’s going to be my livelihood, that site, so I have no choice but to burn the boat. Anyway, they say, get rid of the old and thus make room for new.
Thanks for this awesome post today! I look forward to hearing your report of the weekend!
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(hmmm, that’s not my latest post, there on CommentLuv…but oh well!)
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I feel compelled to cry, “Hallelujah, brother!”
Yes. Yes. Yes.
I’ve been doing a lot of reading around the subject of ‘making the leap’ to freelancing and I notice there are two schools of thought on the best way to achieve this.
Now the two schools are not violently opposed. In fact, most people seem to agree that the first, which argues that it is best to try freelancing ‘on the side’ before any leaping takes place and then make sure your parachute and backup parachute are safely stowed, is a very sensible approach.
And yet, following this advice there is usually one or two people who say, “Yes, I agree this is a good idea BUT it wasn’t until I lost the safety net that I really applied myself. And I found drive and strength I didn’t know I had.”
So burn those boats. But make sure you’ve got a good army behind you too
That’s exactly what I’m feeling…a little bit too much comfort. A boring job in a dyfunctional company. I don’t like it, but I tolerate it.
But it provides a nice comfortable paycheck (which I rationalize, helps give me freedom to follow my other intersests).
It would be TOO EASY to just keep going on like this. Until each year slides into another. And one day I wake up an old man and realize I’d wasted all that time.
If my life depended on it, I COULD burn boats. (i.e. quit my job, move into a shack, live off my life savings eating Raman noodles). And keep writing and submitting to publishers until I earn a living as an author.
But that’s a bit too drastic for me (and would probably cause more stress than my existing job).
So what’s the solution, then?
(Pehaps I need to find a smaller boat to burn).
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@ Rebecca: I think you can actually apply both, though either one will work on its own too. If you leap instead of doing it on the side first, just make sure you have some money saved.
Otherwise, I started doing it on the side because I wanted to see how I’d like it, how I’d fare getting clients, etc. I figured I would leap once the work became so much I didn’t have time to do my full-time job anymore. Basically, that is what happened, but I was damn scared to change over for many reasons, even though I enjoyed freelancing.
My husband prompted me by telling me I had to leap eventually, and “now” (back then, five years ago or so) was as good a time as any to do it. So even if you start on the side for a time, you still have to make that leap in the end. It’s hard to cut your ties to the security of a full-time job, if you have that security, but doing it never felt more freeing, I’ll tell you what!
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@steph,
I always liked that one too, and it ties into burning the boats very well.
Writing it motivated me, to be honest. I’ve got “burn the boats” written about 100 times in my journal. I’m going on vacation for two weeks after today – so there’ll be some boat burning for sure.
Glad you liked it – now go forth and burn that boat.
PS – seems like CommentLuv is working now.
@Rebecca,
You made a very important point – make sure you do have a good army behind you, if possible.
We can be your army.
And of course, as Friar alludes below you, you don’t have to burn your biggest boat.
@Friar,
You’ve got it. Don’t burn your biggest boat.
Pick a smaller one, and set it ablaze. Once you’ve won that battle, pick a larger boat, and torch it.
Once that battle’s been won, break out the napalm and incinerate that big bastard boat that’s been a thorn in your side for many years.
(Now, why am I reminded of that Bugs Bunny cartoon with Black Jacques Shellaque? “No Jacques, not this one!”)
@ Friar: Work on making your weapons NOW (write those books, damn you!) and submitsubmitsubmit. You make the weapons BEFORE you charge, no? DON’T WAIT till you leap and then pull out the swords! (In other words, you don’t have to quit your job first and then start writing or drawing and submitting.)
You don’t have to leap with nothing under you but Raman noodles. You only have to leap when the right time comes, when you land ashore. The trick is *keeping the goal in mind.* Don’t get so comfortable you just ride the boat. Ride the boat there, but all the while prepare for “battle.”
Phew. Sorry, is that confusing? I’m off duty today!
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Yeah: what Brett said!
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@steph,
Not confusing at all. To be honest, writing this post and then chatting with you folks has me really primed and ready for the battles that lie ahead.
My enemies will fall before me
@Steph
Yeah, that’s my game plan. Start making my weapons (working on my books) Actually, last night I was talking to my Life Coach about it, and she gave me a butt-kicking to start working at it harder, and setting some well-defined time limits.
(Otherwise, if I say I’ll ‘eventually’ I’ll write this book’) it will never get done.
@Brett
A lot of people talk about going into business for themselves, how it’s great that they self-actualized, and how losing their desk-job was a “great opportunity” for them to take the plunge…etc.
What I’d like to know is how many of these people were lucky enough to have spouses who were working at the time?
I’m not cricitizing. I think it’s great when there’s another steady income coming in to reduce the stress. At least ONE person can follow their dream (as opposed to neither being able to do it).
It’s just that totally changes the equation, compared to someone who’s totally on their own.
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Steph’s right, you can’t burn the boat while you are still SAILING in it, you’ll drown.
But you get a map, you steer heartily toward shore…you sharpen your weapons while you are sailing (you don’t just float around in the ocean)…and once you land,,,then you burn that baby to the ground. Onward….Soldiers….
Steph…EditQuest? Is that the final answer? I love it….
Friar…you have a plan now…and it’s a good one..you aren’t floating anymore. Stay focused.
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I believe you!! And my fist is in the air. (What is the Viking war cry?)
And I was just thinking, you know, what Goethe said about providence aiding you once that choice is made and your thoughts are bent on it — that stuff is seriously true! Colin and I are seeing everything culminating in the right direction according to where he wants to be, it’s weird. Right now he’s getting job interviews (yes, plural, all at once!) as a result of applications he submitted in 2005. It’s timing, I tell you, and a result of really being focused on what you want.
When I decided to that that leap to freelancing, my boss told me that day, “Well, I was going to tell you today that I have to lay you off, anyway, so this was all coming together nicely, wasn’t it?”
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@ Wendi: you bet, and the best place to tell you: EditQuest, the brainchild of Brett Legree, is the new name for my fantasy editing site. Woohoo!
@ Friar: We’ll be your spouses!! (But I’ll tell ya, although mine was great, having a working spouse doesn’t necessarily make it easier. Or having a spouse at all.)
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@Friar,
Oh, for sure – perhaps some folks have had a safety net. Some don’t. And if you don’t, only burn the boat you feel you can afford to lose.
The flip side of it is this, nothing is guaranteed in life and if you think you want to be doing something else, start it on the side NOW.
Because things could change at the Widget Factory, and we’d be out in the cold.
Another angle to it is this – and I’m not complaining, as this is a choice I made – but were I single with no dependents, I would have quit my job and left the country years ago.
This isn’t an excuse, mind you – it just takes more planning for us to go where we want to go.
Having a second income gives (some) security; being on your own gives you ultimate flexibility, in my opinion only of course.
Regardless, as Wendi says (and as we chatted about last night), we both know what we need to do, and the thing to do is stay the course.
Be ready to move when the time is right.
@steph,
(blushing) the brainchild of Brett Legree, with the assistance of a couple of glasses of Chianti, if I remember correctly!
Brett: hmmm. Perhaps I’ll send you a very generous and ongoing gift certificate for Chianti and hire you to be my muse.
And yes, that’s what I was trying to say about not having a spouse. I don’t regret being married by a long shot, but were I not, I am pretty sure I wouldn’t be in this country, either. (I’d also have way less debt!)
I’m thinking Europe, or England. I would be travelling and having another life altogether. Again, not that I’m not happy here, or have any regret because I did choose this life now, and willingly, but I think I would have more easily done what I wanted then. When you have a family, you need to take them into consideration, and that does often change the course of things.
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Steph,
That sounds like a plan
I know – I don’t regret being married either – those are choices we all make. And I know you understand it too (obviously, or you wouldn’t have said it!) – when I didn’t have dependents and obligations, I could just quit my job because I had (say) $10,000 in the bank.
And knowing what I know now, I’d probably be working on a farm somewhere in New Zealand (they have this great co-op program there…)
But, reality being what it is, and being happy with my family unit (as no matter where we go, we have each other), we just move forward together with the plan. It may take a bit longer. But it is not insurmountable.
@Brett
LIke you and I have been discussing, I’m not going to quit the Widget Factory until I have a game plan (and know what I want to do). Which I’m still figuring out.
I’ve done 4 different companies within the last 8 years (and three job changes within this last company alone).
I’m not convinced, that my next job (at the Sprocket Factory) for example, won’t be any better or worse than where I am now. They’re pretty much all the same.
So it’s not a matter of just getting another job. It’s a whole career change…Re-thinking the whole way I want to earn my livelihood.
Anway, I’m on the right path, I think Basil is helping me…:-) .
In the meantime, I’ll pilot my boat (like Wendi says) and start sharpening my swords.
@Steph
I don’t necessarily need the spouse. Just their income! : -)
I’d love to hook up with an orthopedic surgeon. Because a) They have a good salary $$$$ b) she’ll be to busy working, we won’t have to worry about getting sick of each other
and more importantly: c) I’ll have an Inside Connection next time I need knee surgery.
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Brett,
Great post and comments (how can I be late to the party already?). Burn the boats *after* you’ve made the weapons, etc. Nice.
I have to agree with you when you say that flexibility is the tradeoff for having those extra loves in your life. Ramen may not be the softest bed to land on, but the Friar decides on his own whether he wants to land in the noodles without having to worry about anyone but Bear. Wouldn’t trade it for my little dependent, but it has its advantages.
Oh, happy vacation! I hope you and all your loves have a blissful 2 Weeks.
Regards,
Kelly
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Friar: LOL!!! Not for love?
And you’re right. Let Timmy and his dog Basil take you where you want to go. I’m right beside you!
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@Steph
What I have to watch out for, is the other thing happenning. (i.e. someone looking at ME for their safety net!)
There are plenty of trailer-Moms around here. Waddling to the bus-stop every day, with their litter of broodlings in tow. Who would just LOVE to marry an engineer’s salary.
Heh. Sorry, not for me!!!
Ladies, find some OTHER guy to pay for little Jebediah’s teeth. Or Bessie-Mae’s tuition at the special “Learnin’ School”.
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HAHAHA! Ahh, good ol’ Spat Creek. Sounds just like BelleVegas.
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Just remember you’re burning boats… not bridges (heh… proverb vs. proverb).
One of my favorite sayings is “stop carrying the raft.” In other words, once you’ve crossed the river, you don’t need the boat anymore. It’s dead weight. Let it go. Burning it might be even better.
There ya go. Like a proverb trifecta.
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To play devils advocate:
The Vikings came and conquered the new land.
But they arrived in the middle of a famine. Crops were failing. The people of the land were starving. Nobody could feed themselves, let alone the Invaders.
Plus there’s was a plague. Lars and CrowBar were starting to cough up blood, and the rest of the crew was catching it.
Also turns out there wasnt’ any plunder. This wasn’t a very rich land….there wasn’t anything worth stealing.
ThunderFruck (at the risk of his life) suggests to the Leader (Captain Vyorgen):
“Uhhh…Vyorgen, this kinds sucks. Let’s just cut our losses, and go back home. And come back then the timing’s better..”.
HNYARRGH!!! Captain Vyorgen yells out of exasperation.
“Awww…SHIT….NOW you tell me!”……we’ve just BURNED the Frakking BOATS!”
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(Sorry for the delay in answering folks, I was just listening to some clown music…)
@Friar,
I know what you mean. If you are going to change jobs, I guess you have to do as much research as possible beforehand, otherwise it’s, “Say hello to the new boss, same as the old boss.”
There are better places to work, for sure. Google vs. The Widget Factory – not even the same league.
@Kelly,
Thank you – and I agree, great comments by everyone here. If you’re late to my party, I’m certainly late to your party…
I’ll be around during my vacation to chat, so it might not seem to everyone that I’m actually gone – the trick will be to rest up, and make sure that I build my weapons and burn a few (small) boats while I’m off.
@Friar (again),
What, you don’t want a “Chalk mom”? And what about Claire?
@Michael,
Yeah, I like that. Stop carrying the raft. Burn the fracking thing.
(might burn a few bridges at some point, though, just for fun)
@Friar,
Satan’s Little Helper couldn’t resist answering the Devil’s Advocate here – that is true, perhaps once the Vikings reach the “promised land”, they could find that things aren’t so good, and if they’ve burned the boats, they can’t get back.
Perhaps the trick is to know when to burn the boats, while simultaneously knowing when to build your weapons, build your boat, get on the boat and sail off.
Because in the parallel universe, perhaps the Vikings stayed put in their nice safe village, isolated from the world. Everything was great, until the Spaniards arrived with gunpowder and made them all servants of Spain.
Point being, there is no such thing as a safety net, other than
a) money in the bank and
b) the ability to react quickly to change
I figure if you keep doing your books, you’ll be ready to change if you need to change.
@Brett
Oh, I basically agree with you, but I was just in a debatable mood today.
No matter what, I think life was pretty damned harsh for the Vikings (or others). The Medieval period was no picnic.
The Money in the bank this is always important. I heard a quote somewhere: Life is a shit sandwich. The more bread you have, the easier it is to eat.
PS. Just keep those Spherical Moms with the 10 kids away from me!).
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@Friar,
Oh, I know – debating is fun and more interesting than Widgets today – besides, if you can’t have a debate with your friends, what good is that?
And you are right about the bread. That’s why we’re still here. The bread is good.
I envy you…you’re on vacation right now (but my time will come…I’m just waiting to decide where and when to go…).
As for debating, I think I just like to write stories where Vikings go “HNYARRRRGH!”.
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Ah, burning the boat is a clever idea. But how did they ever get back home? I guess they built new and better boats
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Beware the man who has nothing to lose. He will accomplish more than could ever be imagined.
This jumped out at me because I no longer have anything to lose. I used to cling to comfort, or at least the known, in order to avoid facing fears. Fears of living my life alone, not having enough money in the bank, having to fix the kitchen sink myself..you get the idea. Then at the age of 44, for the very first time in my life, I went out on my own. I faced all those fears down and realized I didn’t actually lose anything. To the contrary, I gained more than I could possibly imagine. Now, I just go for it, because I no longer have anything to lose, and only a whole bunch more fantastic things to gain.
When I read your article, my first reaction was “Huh, typical male analogy, burning a stupid war boat.” Then I wrote this comment, and I have to apologize for my initial reaction, because I realized that boy did I ever burn my own stupid war boat! Please accept my humblest apologies for sterotyping your thought processes *grin*
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@Friar,
By the middle of the second week (when I’m looking after my kids alone), I might be willing to trade you and go back to work!
Yeah, I hear you, Olaf. Hey, if you’re Olaf, who am I? Well, my middle name is Andrew, which I guess would be Anders.
@Melissa,
I think you might be right – newer and better boats. Then again, the ones who landed in Canada probably never went home:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows
(hope the link works)
But I always liked that idea of forcing yourself to move ahead.
@Urban Panther,
Thanks for sharing that, because you are right, you have nothing to lose, and everything to gain. We all do. And thanks for coming back to check it out again. Sometimes my subject lines could be more descriptive
Hi Brett – I love your quote “Beware the man who has nothing to lose. He will accomplish more than could ever be imagined.”
And that is so true. Sometimes, we’re better off finding ourselves in a situation where we have nothing to lose. Feeling comfortable doesn’t really encourage you to improve your situation.
I’m going to start the horrible job that I keep putting off – thanks for reminding me. And I hope you’re going to share how you got on with yours too.
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Hi Cath,
I like that too – I’m sure someone said it before, in a song or something, and I’ve long since forgotten who or where – but I always keep it in my thoughts.
I’ve been there once or twice, and it is amazing what you can do.
Good luck with your boat this weekend – I will burn mine for sure, and report back early next week.
-Brett
Brett, my kilted wonder friend, I love the Goethe quote and it parallels to another favorite, “what would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” So often we fear burning the boat because we fear failure. I’ve got a match, wanna light a bonfire?
Karen,
That’s a great one too, isn’t it. We need not fear anything, to be honest. For even if we do nothing, bad things can happen.
I have a big pile of wood here, so pass the match!
-Brett
@Brett, Yes, I find that some of my greatest accomplishments are the results of “forced motivation.” Like when the company I worked for went out of business and I was – forced – to start my own business
heheh.
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@Melissa,
-Brett
(The boat has not finished burning yet, and we’re going camping today. I’ll report back on Wednesday on how the fire went.)
Here I was hoping my viking weekend homework was going to be to set something on fire or blow something up….
Now I wish I had a boat. 
Actually, I didn’t see this post until the weekend was past — I have been slow making my blog rounds lately — but I did have the chance on Saturday to catch up on one of the many things I have been procrastinating on. (1 down, 355 to go!!) Maybe your post osmosised (new word?) me. Post osmosis? LOL
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I’ve spent the past two years playing at blogging. I’ve stayed committed to it by blogging almost every day over the past two years, but it was a one way thing (me to everyone).
Now I’ve made the real commitment, burned the boat, the oars and fled the shoreline…
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Alex,
If I were in Spain I’d burn my boats, too. Why go back?
The Vikings would have been much more relaxed folks if they’d made a wrong turn and landed where you are!
Regards,
Kelly
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@Amy,
You could always borrow a boat! Or find a (willing?) victim and apply a torch…
Yeah, post osmosis – better than pre osmosis I guess.
@Alex,
I read your words and believe me, they help inspire me to burn my own boat.
Update of my own boat burning to follow…
Thanks Brett! I need to learn how to burn my boat! I’m a pyro so that part is taken care of, I just need the courage!
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Wow, very, very nice post. Short, incisive and to the point. I am making my umpteenth come-back at cycling. The important first step is losing the 40-odd pounds of weight that I have packed on since I last raced bicycles with any effect. Any ideas on how to ‘burn the boat’ on this one? Sure I can imagine that my life depends on it etc. My how can I really commit this time. Your thoughts?
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@Jenny,
You’re welcome, and once again, thank *you* too. Courage is probably 90 percent of it, we can figure out the rest as we go along. Go check out Dave Navarro’s latest for some other help:
http://www.rockyourday.com/too-busy-to-fit-something-else-in-bull-read-this/
It’s a great one today.
@Albert,
Thank you very much for saying that. You know, you have it in you – just by saying you keep trying.
That’s what we have to do. Fall down, and get back up again.
This is what I do:
http://lifehacker.com/software/motivation/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret-281626.php
It’s called Don’t Break the Chain. You need a calendar of some kind to put up on the wall, and you can see if you have or have not done your exercise, or your book writing, or whatever. I keep mine out in the open. So my wife will also say, “hmm, I noticed you haven’t been exercising.”
It really works.
I have another post in the works for tomorrow, a sort of follow up to this one here, that may also give some inspiration. One way to commit I suppose is to realize that we only have one shot at this.
No do-overs. So we can either coast, or hit life hard. I’ve spent time doing both. I’m tired of coasting.
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