There is an old Italian proverb that I don’t expect you’ve heard although you’ve probably experienced. It goes like this:
“Tra il dire e il fare, c’è di mezzo il mare.”
For those of you who don’t speak the language, roughly translated it means “between saying and doing lies half the ocean” and like many old proverbs, this one has endured because it’s spot on. There are lots of great ideas that have amounted to nothing because of the ocean, that vast space between saying and doing. We need to navigate those waters or drown. Continue reading


