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Its true. Its not hard, it just takes a lot of work.
This is mainly for the people who are like I was. I would sit there and read a ton of business books. Sit and plot, spend all day just thinking. Trying to figure out what to do. What to sell. Where to start. Coming up with reasons why this or that idea wouldn't work. That has its place, but you need to escape that or you will never get anywhere I promise. In the Army I've been taught making a bad decision on the battlefield is better than making no decision. It's much better for you to jump in and fail, than never start and not learn anything.
Its very easy for people to feel overwhelmed with business. Or feel like its far more difficult than it is.
I view business as simply a system that generates money. The goal is to automate the system and get passive income. You work on it piece by piece. Its an assembly line to me. You work on and automate the assembly line piece by piece. Generally speaking, this is not hard. But it takes a lot of hard work.
To oversimplify it this is how I view it.
Get phone to ring-----Answer phone and get sale-------logistically plan and complete job-----get money
Automate calls (marketing)----Automate inbound calls(sales)-----Automate job completion (project management)
Obviously many details factor into this. But that is as oversimplified as I can make it.
I saw @SteveO mention something once that really hit home for me. Its probably one of the best things I've ever read on these forums.
He was talking about how you don't "need" a lot of the things you think you need to start a business. This is 100% correct. My business was started with next to nothing. I took the little savings I had and went all in. I didn't take people's money, I didn't borrow money. Very often people think they "need" things that they really do not. If its not 100% needed for the business to function legally you do not need it. Money can actually be more of a detriment to a new company than a positive. And if you need something that cost a lot of money. Can you get it other ways? Always look for other ways. Even if you have the money. If you are able to accomplish things without money, you will be able to accomplish far more when you have money.
I love talking about business and giving people my advice. I've talked to all of my friends and tried to get them to "see it". I've found that its usually just a waste of time. You can give someone the keys to success. But that doesn't mean they will use them.
I think business comes down to the qualities of a person. If I handed people a solid business plan, most of them would crash and burn. Because they do not have the qualities to succeed. A mentor can teach you business principals, but no mentor can teach you to keep going when you want to quit. No mentor can teach you to "want it", people give up so easily. People "want" a lot of things, but most people wont try and grab them. In the past I have offered friends the chance to join my company. They sat there and figured out a whole bunch of reasons why they shouldn't, or why it wouldn't work. They said no. Here I am months later just chugging along, despite the risk, despite the uncertainty, despite the shitty days.
No one can change your internal qualities besides yourself. So if you are on the fence, then jump in. Make a shitty decision and learn from it. That's far better than doing nothing. My entire life was drastically changed by one decision to jump in. Everything I have now is because I acted on a THOUGHT months ago. I have had so much personal growth since that day. That same thought could have been in anyone's mind. But I guarantee most people wouldn't act on that thought. Your mind is hardwired to work against you. Theres a legitimate time to listen to yourself. There is also a legitimate time to ignore the reasons why not to, and just do it.
The qualities are far more important than the business plan.
This is mainly for the people who are like I was. I would sit there and read a ton of business books. Sit and plot, spend all day just thinking. Trying to figure out what to do. What to sell. Where to start. Coming up with reasons why this or that idea wouldn't work. That has its place, but you need to escape that or you will never get anywhere I promise. In the Army I've been taught making a bad decision on the battlefield is better than making no decision. It's much better for you to jump in and fail, than never start and not learn anything.
Its very easy for people to feel overwhelmed with business. Or feel like its far more difficult than it is.
I view business as simply a system that generates money. The goal is to automate the system and get passive income. You work on it piece by piece. Its an assembly line to me. You work on and automate the assembly line piece by piece. Generally speaking, this is not hard. But it takes a lot of hard work.
To oversimplify it this is how I view it.
Get phone to ring-----Answer phone and get sale-------logistically plan and complete job-----get money
Automate calls (marketing)----Automate inbound calls(sales)-----Automate job completion (project management)
Obviously many details factor into this. But that is as oversimplified as I can make it.
I saw @SteveO mention something once that really hit home for me. Its probably one of the best things I've ever read on these forums.
He was talking about how you don't "need" a lot of the things you think you need to start a business. This is 100% correct. My business was started with next to nothing. I took the little savings I had and went all in. I didn't take people's money, I didn't borrow money. Very often people think they "need" things that they really do not. If its not 100% needed for the business to function legally you do not need it. Money can actually be more of a detriment to a new company than a positive. And if you need something that cost a lot of money. Can you get it other ways? Always look for other ways. Even if you have the money. If you are able to accomplish things without money, you will be able to accomplish far more when you have money.
I love talking about business and giving people my advice. I've talked to all of my friends and tried to get them to "see it". I've found that its usually just a waste of time. You can give someone the keys to success. But that doesn't mean they will use them.
I think business comes down to the qualities of a person. If I handed people a solid business plan, most of them would crash and burn. Because they do not have the qualities to succeed. A mentor can teach you business principals, but no mentor can teach you to keep going when you want to quit. No mentor can teach you to "want it", people give up so easily. People "want" a lot of things, but most people wont try and grab them. In the past I have offered friends the chance to join my company. They sat there and figured out a whole bunch of reasons why they shouldn't, or why it wouldn't work. They said no. Here I am months later just chugging along, despite the risk, despite the uncertainty, despite the shitty days.
No one can change your internal qualities besides yourself. So if you are on the fence, then jump in. Make a shitty decision and learn from it. That's far better than doing nothing. My entire life was drastically changed by one decision to jump in. Everything I have now is because I acted on a THOUGHT months ago. I have had so much personal growth since that day. That same thought could have been in anyone's mind. But I guarantee most people wouldn't act on that thought. Your mind is hardwired to work against you. Theres a legitimate time to listen to yourself. There is also a legitimate time to ignore the reasons why not to, and just do it.
The qualities are far more important than the business plan.
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