One of the most important online biz lessons
How I went from $850 months to $850 days
Hey!
Today I want to talk to you about the most important online biz lesson I learned.
The thing about business is that it is practical. There is no guessing. It’s did you collect money and fulfill on your promises or not.
People make it more complicated than that.
I think it’s because the rewards for getting good at business are greater than most games:
Social status
Potential to avoid shitty jobs
Potential to increase your quality of life and freedom
So people kinda put it on a pedestal.
They think and talk about it but never start. I know because I’ve been there before. But one day I saw a youtube video that shook my whole paradigm.
He said
Start then learn, don’t learn then start.
The reason this is so important is because most people are waiting for permission to take ownership over their life situation. Or they wait for a traumatic life event like a break up or lost job.
But really, the only thing stopping you from making your first dollar online or creating your first piece of content is yourself.
The reason this happens is simple. We think there is some magic formula or that action takers know something we don’t.
But I’ve been lucky to work with some really well known people in the online business space. People doing 6 figure months. There is a common thread.
They just do things. And they expect mistakes along the way.
In fact, in NLP there are two kinds of “action frames”
Most people operate under a “failure” frame.
They take a sales call, it goes bad and they view it as a failure. Or they approach one woman, get rejected and cry. Then if their internal state is really bad they go so far as to label themselves a failure overall or bad at something. But in reality, there is another frame you can view this with. It’s called the outcome/feedback frame.
The feedback frame views things from more of a growth mindset.
It’s not that there was a one off event and you failed the sales call. It’s that there is an ongoing process of learning and each “set back” is rather a data collection point towards your goal of making a sale. And if you take just 30 seconds to extract one golden nugget from each iteration, you can get so much better.
It’s like Ray Dalio’s chart:
So to recap the commonality I’ve seen in people who do well in online business:
They just take action (knowing they will mess things up)
They operate under a feedback frame rather than an outcome frame
Hope this is helpful and you see the applicability outside of just business.
Have a great day.