Andy Black
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My favourite ever post in the forum is a response to someone asking "What is the the BEST piece of advice you've been given?".
You might not notice it - it's such a small, quiet post.
It was posted by @Vigilante here, and I'm dropping in a screenshot so you can see how small and unassuming that post is.
SCREENSHOT
Did you see it?
More importantly - do you believe it?
You're probably wondering what you should do first...
Find a need?
Raise money?
Create a website?
Incorporate a business?
Design a logo and business cards?
Hand out flyers?
There's only one thing you need to be in business, and that's a sale/customer.
You won't get one if you don't get out of your own way and go help people.
You won't help other people if you keep thinking about yourself.
Here's an example of me NOT starting, and then how I got out of my own way and managed to START (watch the video too, as it's an example of what I'm talking about):
A few months ago I decided to "learn to create talking head videos".
I got tangled up that first evening, because my goal was wrong.
My goal was to create a video.
My goal was not to say "thank you" to @SinisterLex for the videos he was adding to the forum.
I screwed up.
I over-complicated things.
I got in my own way.
I believed I couldn't add value to the forum.
All because I was thinking about "me", and not thinking about Lex.
After I gave myself a stern talking to, I created my very first talking head video.
Here it is:
Funnily enough, @Vigilante current favourite forum post is here.
Similar, no?
(Check out post #13 in that thread too.)
Further reading:
You might not notice it - it's such a small, quiet post.
It was posted by @Vigilante here, and I'm dropping in a screenshot so you can see how small and unassuming that post is.
SCREENSHOT
Did you see it?
More importantly - do you believe it?
You're probably wondering what you should do first...
Find a need?
Raise money?
Create a website?
Incorporate a business?
Design a logo and business cards?
Hand out flyers?
There's only one thing you need to be in business, and that's a sale/customer.
You won't get one if you don't get out of your own way and go help people.
You won't help other people if you keep thinking about yourself.
Here's an example of me NOT starting, and then how I got out of my own way and managed to START (watch the video too, as it's an example of what I'm talking about):
A few months ago I decided to "learn to create talking head videos".
I got tangled up that first evening, because my goal was wrong.
My goal was to create a video.
My goal was not to say "thank you" to @SinisterLex for the videos he was adding to the forum.
I screwed up.
I over-complicated things.
I got in my own way.
I believed I couldn't add value to the forum.
All because I was thinking about "me", and not thinking about Lex.
After I gave myself a stern talking to, I created my very first talking head video.
Here it is:
Funnily enough, @Vigilante current favourite forum post is here.
Similar, no?
(Check out post #13 in that thread too.)
Further reading:
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