It’s a new year once again; and everyone is doing their best to start the year strong.
But what if you don’t have to? What if how you start is not so important?
Just in case you didn’t know, let me be the one to tell you:
It’s not important how you start.
So don’t worry about that.
At the start of building a business, we typically have more time than money. Use it.
Don’t rush to hire a business coach who promises to help you earn 6 figures in 6 weeks…and when you don’t get that, you’re frustrated and disappointed
Devote some time to learn your trade & hone your skills. Become a real expert at what you do.
And then go learn some marketing — it’s actually okay to tell people about your work. (more…)
Gold — one of the most beautiful and expensive treasures on earth today.
Just 1 ounce of it is almost $2,000 as at the time of writing this article. If you want some gold, all you have to do is get the money & go buy it. It’s that simple right?
And yet, it takes an average of between 10-20 years before a gold mine is even ready to produce material that can be refined.
Even just the process of building the infrastructure required for mining can be as long as five years from the time of discovering the gold mine to when actual mining can begin.
Let that sink in for a moment.
I just had a discovery call with a prospective client.
We had a great conversation and she really wanted to work with me, but I could tell that she was not ready.
Problem is that the timing was too short for what she was planning to launch, and she didn’t have the basics in place in order to fast-track the process.
Yet, because I came highly recommended from someone she trusts, she was eager to move forward since she believed we could make it work.
It’s that time of the year again — everyone is doing an audit of the past 12 months and making plans on how to be better in the coming year.
A common theme I find, even in my own life, is that we often start the year strong but then fall away as the year goes by.
There are many theories as to why this is the case, but it’s not my focus in this article to list them out.
I simply want to invite you to consider the fact that we might attain more consistency if we’re not so attached to the short-term outcome of our actions.