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#13: Underestimating what it takes to succeed

Feb 16, 2018

You get demotivated when your expectations don’t match reality

  • get excited
  • do some work for a day, or two, or a week
  • You don’t see immediate results so you ‘rethink’ & ‘plan’
  • You say “It’s not quantity it’s quality”
  • So you slow down
  • B/c you slowed down, you’re contacting less = only makes it worse
  • You plan more, look at others online
  • Wonder why you’re not getting results & get demotivated
  • You blame the guru/person who told you to do the work
  • You search for another method & get back to planning

 

Story: Moved into high rise & filming didn’t work

  • Backlit & paid 10k for new equipment

 

Why do we underestimate?

  • Never done it before - don’t know what to expect
  • You see the end result but can’t see the work - you haven’t done it
  • Experience = see into the future b/c you know the past

 

Story: Built the online business & underestimated how much I need to do to make sales

  • They said “10k people on your email list and you can do a million dollar launch” NOPE
  • I thought “create ad, send emails, sell product”…didn’t work

 

Build your endurance muscle

  • I had no choice but to keep going b/c I didn’t have a job
  • I’ve become numb to failure…
  • Restaurants helped me - GMs said no…lost restaurant gigs…lost corporate gigs
  • Other failures - prospecting, product launch fails, etc

 

Just because something didn’t work doesn’t mean it doesn’t work

  • You have to get it to work for you

 

Doing the right things vs doing those things right are two different things

  • I was emailing (doing the right thing) but I wasn’t doing it right (saying the right things in the emails)
  • Are you doing the right things or not doing it right?

 

If you’re feeling demotivated, keep pushing

  • Steve Jobs “People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you’re doing and it’s totally true. And the reason is because it’s so hard that if you don’t, any rational person would give up”
  • Nothing wrong with you if you give up
  • Pushing when it’s hard isn’t ‘normal’…don’t be normal
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger - build muscle at the moment you want to give up