This is a point I’ve talked about before, but it’s MORE than worth bringing up again.
I’ve been emailing a guy this week who contacted me initially because he was desperate to start making some cash and needed help right away.
I get emails like this a lot and the only reason I responded to his was because I could sense both his sincerity and his already existing potential to make something great happen…
Anyway, it didn’t take me long to realize this was a smart guy. A guy who knew a lot about online business. He’d obviously been studying for a long time, knew plenty about SEO, article marketing, niche marketing and more.
I eventually asked him whether he’d set up his first site yet, and not surprisingly, he hadn’t.
We got to the bottom of his problem after he sent me a jpeg file of a mindmap he’d been working with, of an overall plan for a successful niche site.
I’m not kidding, this thing contained maybe 50 little bubbles, all connected with arrows going this way and that, different colored bubbles indicating different relationships between tasks and extra text had been added to explain the significance of certain bubbles.
His question was “what do you think of this?” to which I replied, “I think you’re confusing the SHIT out of yourself!”
I basically told him that I could see he was a smart guy but he was thinking WAY too much about it.
I set him a challenge to drop all the thinking and go right now, choose a niche, and put up a site as quick as you can. I told him if he could do it in one day, I’d continue to help him out through the rest of the process.
Unencumbered by the lack of unnecessary mental energy expulsion, he got a site up in one day with no problems.
The best lesson however was that the site he got up WASN’T perfect!
He picked a niche that I wouldn’t have chosen, and from that, we were able to discuss in depth his choice of niche, why it wasn’t great, what would have been better, and how he could proceed with a better niche VERY close to his original selection.
So 1. You get more DONE when you stop learning and start doing…
AND you LEARN more, when you stop learning and start doing…
Ohhh the irony!
I hope you find this valuable.
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Yup, Mike Litman said it, “You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going”.
It takes a leap of faith or someone who is kind enough to bestow some vigorous mentoring!
Alex
So when are you going to share the nuggets of wisdom, like for example the “sort” of niche chosen and why it was wrong.
I know I’m not the only one who has been struggling for ages with a dead dog, when I originally thought: “this is the one! This is the niche that will finally get me into the big leagues”
Cheers
Gary
Gary,
A great question!
As a matter of fact, my next post on the matter is queued up in wordpress now, 2 days away
Andrew