Do you prefer audio? That’s why I’ve made the audio only of today’s video available separately.
Today’s show is important because the message is universal. Everybody suffers hearing two contrasting voices. One tells us we can keep going, encouraging us to push forward. The other one tells us to quit, urging us to give up because we’ll never be able to succeed. Sometimes we listen to one over the other.
The high achievers have both voices. They’re just able to silence the naysayer better than the rest of us. They think differently. They feel differently. And they perform differently, too.
I’ve been on Perry Marshall’s list for years. He’s a Google Adwords and PPC brainiac. I’d also describe him as a terrific marketing guy. Oh, and he’s very likable.
Since I’m on his list I got the email he sent out telling about his new Marketing DNA Test. I spent a few minutes and took it. These are the results. That’s right, I’m unashamed. Transparency and authenticity – 2 words that make me want to vomit – are all the rage so here you go!
Enjoy. Laugh. Cry. Feel badly for me. Feel envy about my greatness. Pity my weaknesses. It’s all done in a real quest to learn more about myself. One of these days I’ll figure it out. Guess I’d better hurry things up, huh?
Honestly, I’m not sure there is a single biggest key to much of anything…especially business building or entrepreneurship.
• Connecting with people
• Gaining experience
• Knowing how to sell
• Good time management
• Having enough capital
• Blah, blah, blah
Some people think great “fill-in-the-blank” (i.e. business people, artists, singers and such) are born, not made. Others believe that hard work can accomplish most anything.
As is often the case, the truth may lie somewhere in between. I’d like to believe that all of life is what we make it, but I know much of life is beyond our control. Even so, I think we should tackle life with that perspective – life is what we make it.
If life knocks us down…we can decide to get up or stay down.
If life reveals an opportunity…we can decide to take it or let it slide by.
So it may be that if I were asked to single out one thing – one trait – that might likely serve as a key to successful business building, it might just have to be the willingness to venture into the unknown. To take a risk. To believe in what we’re doing, to have confidence that we can “make it” but to understand that failure is also possible.
Our culture is clogged with rhetoric likely based on this truth.
And they’ll pay a lot of money to learn things that are important to them. Computer programming languages, playing a musical instrument, speaking a foreign language, shooting hi-def video, photography. You name it, somebody, somewhere is teaching it. And charging money for it.
What can you teach? Watch or listen (your choice) to today’s show and think about your own business. You’ve likely spent a lot of time and money to learn some things. Why not launch a business based on teaching others what you’ve learned?
Max & Jake, this summer prior to many dives into the pool
NOTE:Today’s show was originally recorded as a video, but I encountered horrible sync issues. No matter, I look better in audio anyway. I’m including the video, but I’ll warn you – it will drive you crazy!
I don’t know if there’s any statistical accuracy to it or not, but I recently heard an Internet marketer claim that about 2% of the buyers of info products (i.e. Internet marketing training courses) actually take any action based on the course.
Think of it.
If we all took action on the stuff we’re reading, watching, and listening to – well, human productivity would sky-rocket. The world wouldn’t know what to do with itself.
Which may explain why most people don’t achieve more success. It also explains the power of Mark Amtower‘s message (both a speech and a little book about the speech, both bearing the same name), “Why epiphanies never occur to couch potatoes.”
Reading, watching and listening are easy. Passive.
Getting up off the couch. Doing something meaningful. Active.
And obviously, for many, quite difficult.
Today is the day after Thanksgiving here in the U.S. It’s a day full of action, mostly centered around crazed crowds falling for the lure of false bargains. I was wondering yesterday…how much must a person devalue their time to spend 2 days and 2 nights in the parking lot of a Best Buy to purchase a TV for $186? You do the math.
This appeared on Facebook yesterday afternoon. I thought it was appropriate…and correct. Yes, I “liked” it.
Stuff. Things. Content. Instruction.
Nothing inherently wrong with any of them. But without action, none of them will help you figure things out, or get things done!
It’s time to incorporate a new philosophy into life. Every 5-year-old already knows this. And does it.
When all is said and done, more is done than said.
