I just wanted to add another point to the list of reasons for business failure.
Throughout my whole life, I've been used to succeeding in many things on the first attempt. That may seem like a great experience, but in reality it did me a disservice: whenever I tried something new, I expected to hit a home run right away. And when that didn't happen, it was such a blow for my self esteem that my knee-jerk reaction was to quit.
It was only after I changed my self-talk, that I started moving forward. What I used to think before was "If I don't succeed on the first try, I'm a failure" or "It's not my thing, I should be doing something else". But then I heard somewhere about martial arts masters - how they all started with a white belt and worked their way to a black belt by making mistakes, learning from those mistakes and adjusting their approaches. That's a no brainer of course, but this time I really got it.
When you look at successful people, there is a tendency to think that they are special in some way, that they had it easy. But there is no shortcut for anyone, everyone has to go through the same painful process of screwing up.
When I started thinking in my mind "It's okay, I'm learning, and mistakes/failures are a part of the process, making mistakes is GOOD, there is no other way to learn", growth became effortless. I now consider mistakes/failures one of the best things that can happen to a person, because they allow you to
really learn something, not just hear or read about it from somebody else's experience. They make you stronger and more powerful - if you look at them from this perspective. I LOVE it when I make mistakes now - they move me ahead so much faster!
So my point is, your ultimate success or failure depends on what's going on in your head. There are so many people who quit right before a breakthrough, because they get impatient and start thinking "This is not working". The people who stick with it and enjoy the levels of success you dream about, have their minds in order first and foremost.
P.S. Has anyone watched Eben Pagan's first training yet? What were your biggest take-aways?
P.P.S. Eben has released another bomb -
free video training called
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>How to create what's called a "Customer Avatar" so you
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>How to design your website to increase the conversions
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