Every person who has ever had to come out of the starting gate first for or against anything, knows that it is no picnic to be a trail blazer. It looks glamorous in movies and makes a compelling story when one later relays the grueling particulars of his or her experience after writing about them in a bestselling book, but the truth is, that being a pioneer sometimes is not what all that it is cracked up to be.
Pioneers take a lot of hits from a lot of saboteurs who like to send them off in all the wrong directions. Innovators are always easy to spot because they are the ones with the arrows in their backs; ambushes always come from behind.
The most difficult thing about being the first at anything is the constant skepticism from others that one must live with incessantly. It can be very hard when everyone dismisses your intentions as being less than realistic and accuse you of living in a daydream with your head in the clouds just because you have a vision that they cannot yet see.
When all your efforts appear fruitless, and the desire to get others on board with your ideas is nothing short of hopeless, you may ask yourself, what’s the point of going on from here? When instead of support, it seems as if you are the target of the lowest forms of deception, and it feels as if all those around you are playing the sneakiest of clandestine games, it is not at all unusual to question your near-impossible life’s mission. At best, you are acutely aware that you are on uncertain footing, and at worst; it’s as if you are chasing a wild goose.
The term “Wild Goose Chase’ originates way back to Shakespeare’s day, 1592. “A ‘wild goose chase’ was a chase in which horses followed a lead horse at a set distance, mimicking wild geese flying in formation. The equine connection was referred to in another early citation, just ten years after Shakespeare” – Nicholas Breton’s The Mother’s Blessing, 1602. According to the website Phrase Finder “The 1978 film ‘The Wild Geese‘ alluded to this phrase in its title.
The term “Wild Geese” refers back to Irish mercenaries who ‘flew’ from Ireland to serve in various European armies in the 16th to 18th centuries. The plot of the 70’s film involved a group of mercenaries embarking on a near-impossible mission. Of course, the near-impossible is no problem for action heroes and of course; in the film they caught their prey.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPJIPToK_gs&feature=related
There is only one way out of a wild goose chase and that is by continuous, unrelenting persistence. It is by constantly engaging in breakthrough thinking. You have to work harder and smarter than you ever have had to do before by scooping in on areas that the others have somehow left neglected in their quest to disrupt and distract you from your objectives. The most concise way of putting this to you, is to say that they will lead you down a garden path, translation: it means that you need to avoid garden paths that are so lovely that anyone who is guided down them can easily be mislead and deceived since they are so attractive and distracting.
It can be a long stretch from strategy development to the implementation of your concepts. Someone who wants to disrupt the status quo can easily exhaust your efforts. If you want to be the pioneer, you can expect to go it alone for a long time before you come upon fellow travelers who see the same mental picture that you do.
Until those connections are securely formed, you will have only an inkling of what is really going on behind your back. To plant the seeds of any new concept a person has to merely capture it, manage the idea properly, listen to what others are saying about it, and be willing to receive their opinions with an open mind.
The knowledge required to push forth something new is a process that must be observed carefully and scrupulously before trying to execute one’s vision. For the most part, all endeavors have a period of pause, a time out before the next stage is visited. It is a vital period in which you will analyze a collection of reactions so that you can adequately respond in a way that is favorable to all your disbelievers.
If you allow the naysayers and the idea bandits to take your proposals before they have even been consummated into a workable plan then all their trickery is benign anyway. Nonetheless, the best way to remain on course, and not be sent on a wild goose chase is to be prepared to be temporarily waylaid by the high jinks of those who think they have everything to gain by regularly sending you off in the wrong direction.
All oversights and deceptions from persons who distract us, are but lessons that if interpreted as such, can be very enlightening indeed! We live, and we learn, and we improve and move on until we find a way to bring to life our dreams. Fearlessness and steadfastness is the key to any successful pioneered effort.
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