Let's talk now about the fourth of my tips for Visionary leaders, and that's the joy of completion.
And what I mean by that is shifting the balance of your endorphin rush from the moment of conception of a great new idea toward getting that endorphin rush when you see it actually implemented. Now we are talking about shifting a balance, not losing that joy of the new idea, because that's very much the core.
Of who you are, but this really is probably the single biggest challenge that I see most Visionary leaders grapple with. It's a different kind of adaptive challenge and it makes it difficult. And so for that reason, what I suggest is you've got to view this as almost like gym work. It's something you have to stick at for quite some time to see a result. And the reason is that of all four Styles, it's the Visionary Style that gets irritated quickest at being forced to apply discipline to how their Style shows up.
All the Styles, Visionary, Operator, Processor, Synergist, will ultimately begin to feel drained if they're being asked to act consistently outside their natural instincts. But the Visionary is the type of leader that most gets irritated really, really quickly. So this is like gym work, and I suggest very strongly that you start in building the joy of completion, start small.
Pick the smallest, brilliant new idea that you had this week, whether it's let's get a new logo or let's get some greenery into the reception and make it more welcoming, just something small. Not your biggest new idea because this is a muscle we're going to build and we want to start small, particularly so as to see results quickly. Pick something that's got a short period of time between thinking it and seeing it done. The reason for that is we want that delayed gratification. As Visionaries, we feel everything at the point of coming up with this great new idea, we want to move some of that to the point at which we see it actually implemented.
And at the start, we want that gap to be small enough that we can see it right in front of us. So something that's only going to take a couple of days, get those plants in the greenery and reception, you can see it the next day. And then revel in that sense of, Hey, I didn't just think about this. I saw it happen. Now, the examples that I've given, they're simplistic, but believe me, you want to start with these simplistic things and build up that muscle, that sense of delayed gratification.
So you will, I assure you, if you do this, I've proved it in myself, proved it with the people that I work with over and over again. Once you get the sense of this, this joy of completion, you'll want to repeat it over and over and over again because, it's no secret. This is not a zero sum game. You don't end up having 50% of your enjoyment of new ideas at the point of thinking about it, and 50% of it at the point of completion, you get a hundred percent here and a hundred percent there.
There's no, there's no way to lose in this. But it does take discipline to build the muscle of the joy of completion.