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I'm posting this under a rant because this is something I've been trying to tell my friends all summer. I'm going to throw a few under the bus, but not by name (but you know who you are), but I feel like it's an important topic for everyone to be aware of.
So this summer, I had a little mastermind session where I had about 5-6 entrepreneurial friends who weren't happy with their current situation come and stay for up to 14 days at my house. Now, in my opinion, this was a great opportunity to really brainstorm ideas with others and really set up a direction to go.
So this is what happened...
Nobody stayed for 14 days. Some arrived a few days late, some left early. To me, it already told me that they really weren't motivated. Not to sound conceited but, seriously, how many of you here would have paid big bucks to live with me and learn business for 14 days?
On the days that they were here... they worked very hard IN their current business. Meaning that they spend most of the day doing the same tedious work that they've been doing all along. They were answering emails and doing menial business tasks when they should have been thinking of new strategies and ways to improve their business. It's like going to a weekend conference and not attending the seminars because you had to return voicemails. So this left us with no time to brainstorm. We ended up having brainstorming sessions on only 2 or 3 nights.
So when they left, nobody in the group had any new ideas or new direction. It's as if they came and the 14 days was a small blip in their normal everyday life.
But to me what is really interesting is that after they left my house, they continued to vacation all summer. Based on the Instagram and Facebook feeds, they are all still on vacation and it is September! So to them, I ask, do they REALLY want it?
They tell me that they aren't happy with where they are. But their actions are telling me that leisure and fun are their priorities. This whole summer they haven't done anything that tells me that they really want to change anything. So come December, when they aren't where they want to be, there's nobody to blame.
I write this as a rant towards them, but I'm also asking you to think about your actions. Do they match what you say?
On a side note, one of my clients launched on Amazon and it's not going well. I tell him to take better photographs, build his IG or Facebook. Week after week, no new photos, his last IG post was in March. All he's doing is playing with PPC and doing giveaways. Finally I just had to tell him that he hasn't done crap. You can't launch and just play with PPC. He's had his own product for 3 months and has no photos of it in use on IG or even his Amazon listing. He still has no FB page. So what's he been doing? Does he really want this?
So this summer, I had a little mastermind session where I had about 5-6 entrepreneurial friends who weren't happy with their current situation come and stay for up to 14 days at my house. Now, in my opinion, this was a great opportunity to really brainstorm ideas with others and really set up a direction to go.
So this is what happened...
Nobody stayed for 14 days. Some arrived a few days late, some left early. To me, it already told me that they really weren't motivated. Not to sound conceited but, seriously, how many of you here would have paid big bucks to live with me and learn business for 14 days?
On the days that they were here... they worked very hard IN their current business. Meaning that they spend most of the day doing the same tedious work that they've been doing all along. They were answering emails and doing menial business tasks when they should have been thinking of new strategies and ways to improve their business. It's like going to a weekend conference and not attending the seminars because you had to return voicemails. So this left us with no time to brainstorm. We ended up having brainstorming sessions on only 2 or 3 nights.
So when they left, nobody in the group had any new ideas or new direction. It's as if they came and the 14 days was a small blip in their normal everyday life.
But to me what is really interesting is that after they left my house, they continued to vacation all summer. Based on the Instagram and Facebook feeds, they are all still on vacation and it is September! So to them, I ask, do they REALLY want it?
They tell me that they aren't happy with where they are. But their actions are telling me that leisure and fun are their priorities. This whole summer they haven't done anything that tells me that they really want to change anything. So come December, when they aren't where they want to be, there's nobody to blame.
I write this as a rant towards them, but I'm also asking you to think about your actions. Do they match what you say?
On a side note, one of my clients launched on Amazon and it's not going well. I tell him to take better photographs, build his IG or Facebook. Week after week, no new photos, his last IG post was in March. All he's doing is playing with PPC and doing giveaways. Finally I just had to tell him that he hasn't done crap. You can't launch and just play with PPC. He's had his own product for 3 months and has no photos of it in use on IG or even his Amazon listing. He still has no FB page. So what's he been doing? Does he really want this?
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