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So I was holding off posting this despite writing it a few months ago. I had another progress thread about my ambitions to start a business I had always wanted to pursue, motivating myself to get started, making plans, fixing mindsets and so on.
The problem was that I was seriously over-committing and planning is all well and good but you need an element of ''Just F***ing do it" which was lacking through a constant fear. I needed to take that fear and engineer ways to make fears opportunities or mere road humps instead of mountains but it wasn't happening.
The perfect moment to go full time was a carrot on a stick. House purchases, new day jobs and the associated challenges constantly extended the stick and goals became courses, planning, learning and rarely excecuting. I had a few successes, a growing blog what has started commanding some good leads in the niche, a few 'sponsorship deals' in the form of cheap products in exhchange for promos, or offering my readers discounted rates for a promo etc but without the core business up and running it didn't mean much.
The problem being capital - the business needs an injection of at least $60k to get up and running. $60k that I don't want to owe anyone if possible.
Working a day job, things come up that chip away at the money for this cause and you go round on the hamster wheel..
So at the end of last year, I decided to change my approach. I had been constantly building websites for various 'side ideas' let's call them, as well as producing one or two for people at knock down prices. It meant I'd become very proficient in Wordpress and bringing ideas to visuals. But I'd never seen it as an end goal. Then I stumbled across Fox's web course and spent the next 6 weeks changing my approach to how I put together web pages and approached the idea of selling them.
Due to some personal stuff progress took a hit, but by February/March I had designed and built around 6 websites for cash. Not earth shattering, but that's 6 websites, sold and created, with the knowledge to be able to sell 6 more picked up along the way. This was my ''Just Do It'' moment. Just do something that you can action immediately if not with a matter of weeks with some degree of success, that puts you a step forwards compared to the day before.
It was also important to redefine the goal. Let's say I wanted to open a sneaker store (it isn't but for the sake of conversation). My view of the world was Do everything I need to do to be able to open a sneaker store. I had to re-frame that view. Why did I want to run a sneaker store. I wanted control, the sort of job satisfaction that I only ever get for working for myself, freedom. Control. 'I want to own a sneaker store' becomes 'if I was in a position where I could do anything, I would own a sneaker store'. A simple distinction but a powerful one. One focuses me on establishing $x of start up funds, changing when the funds are there, living and breathing sneakers. The other focuses me on 'where do I need to be to get to my sneaker store'. The answers of which are, I need to create freedom, control, my own rules etc. How do I start my store, vs how do I become free at which point I can start a store if I wish..
A Business registration and own website development later and effectively I had a small business capable of generating a supplementary income on demand. Incredible. By the end of March this was worth $13K in my pocket for a few hours work in the odd evening on top of working 12 hour days. I'm still trying to close out a big deal for around $9K and had another which seems to have gone away. You win some you loose some.
On About the 1st April I stumbled across one of Andy Black's threads: AndyTalks with nzott about Quitting His Job & Figuring It Out
And a first glaze over it when it was posted was good and gave me a lot to think about in the way I had been approaching the adwords side of my web businesses - but going over it again with a different mindset towards my own circumstances meant that I could only draw one conclusion after the part where Nzott mentioned having the confidence that it could work and coming to the realisation that he couldn't carry on in the employment environment.. That I'd quit being employed the next day, and figure out everything else later..
The problem was that I was seriously over-committing and planning is all well and good but you need an element of ''Just F***ing do it" which was lacking through a constant fear. I needed to take that fear and engineer ways to make fears opportunities or mere road humps instead of mountains but it wasn't happening.
The perfect moment to go full time was a carrot on a stick. House purchases, new day jobs and the associated challenges constantly extended the stick and goals became courses, planning, learning and rarely excecuting. I had a few successes, a growing blog what has started commanding some good leads in the niche, a few 'sponsorship deals' in the form of cheap products in exhchange for promos, or offering my readers discounted rates for a promo etc but without the core business up and running it didn't mean much.
The problem being capital - the business needs an injection of at least $60k to get up and running. $60k that I don't want to owe anyone if possible.
Working a day job, things come up that chip away at the money for this cause and you go round on the hamster wheel..
So at the end of last year, I decided to change my approach. I had been constantly building websites for various 'side ideas' let's call them, as well as producing one or two for people at knock down prices. It meant I'd become very proficient in Wordpress and bringing ideas to visuals. But I'd never seen it as an end goal. Then I stumbled across Fox's web course and spent the next 6 weeks changing my approach to how I put together web pages and approached the idea of selling them.
Due to some personal stuff progress took a hit, but by February/March I had designed and built around 6 websites for cash. Not earth shattering, but that's 6 websites, sold and created, with the knowledge to be able to sell 6 more picked up along the way. This was my ''Just Do It'' moment. Just do something that you can action immediately if not with a matter of weeks with some degree of success, that puts you a step forwards compared to the day before.
It was also important to redefine the goal. Let's say I wanted to open a sneaker store (it isn't but for the sake of conversation). My view of the world was Do everything I need to do to be able to open a sneaker store. I had to re-frame that view. Why did I want to run a sneaker store. I wanted control, the sort of job satisfaction that I only ever get for working for myself, freedom. Control. 'I want to own a sneaker store' becomes 'if I was in a position where I could do anything, I would own a sneaker store'. A simple distinction but a powerful one. One focuses me on establishing $x of start up funds, changing when the funds are there, living and breathing sneakers. The other focuses me on 'where do I need to be to get to my sneaker store'. The answers of which are, I need to create freedom, control, my own rules etc. How do I start my store, vs how do I become free at which point I can start a store if I wish..
A Business registration and own website development later and effectively I had a small business capable of generating a supplementary income on demand. Incredible. By the end of March this was worth $13K in my pocket for a few hours work in the odd evening on top of working 12 hour days. I'm still trying to close out a big deal for around $9K and had another which seems to have gone away. You win some you loose some.
On About the 1st April I stumbled across one of Andy Black's threads: AndyTalks with nzott about Quitting His Job & Figuring It Out
And a first glaze over it when it was posted was good and gave me a lot to think about in the way I had been approaching the adwords side of my web businesses - but going over it again with a different mindset towards my own circumstances meant that I could only draw one conclusion after the part where Nzott mentioned having the confidence that it could work and coming to the realisation that he couldn't carry on in the employment environment.. That I'd quit being employed the next day, and figure out everything else later..
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