08-20-2016, 01:50 PM
Stage 1 day 32
Starting up a new biz is always the hardest.
I've finally found a creative angle to wiggle my way into certain groups so I can get my name out there and be part of small / medium sized product launches.
The idea here is to connect myself with as many product developers / owners as I can so they can slowly spread the word of my work and what i can do.
One of my business friends mentioned this as an off hand comment and though he couldn't see it (we were on voice chat via skype) my eyes lit up at the potential of the idea.
And that's all it takes, really. The tiniest spark - a sort of "Whoa, wait. What if...?" is all i need to get the gears turning.
I also had a mini revelation about BASE.
Stages 1 & 2 are largely devoted to establishing the entrepreneur mindset. They don't really aim to maintain, rather they are there to help form the foundation for the mindset.
When i get to my 3rd and possible final run of BASE I might just remove stages 1 & 2 from my routine and go with stages 3 - 6.
As I reflect back on my first run, that's where the real fun begin. I had the most momentum during stages 3 - 6, and something tells me i should just keep my focus there.
There will be plenty of time for me to reflect and change my mind, but this appears to be a solid idea. The point is to keep the high performance modules of BASE (TLAM, strive to be the best i can be etc) and set aside the entrepreneur building stuff.
I don't want to sound arrogant (though this might have accidentally come across from previous posts lol) but my copy biz will literally be my 4th online business. I don't necessarily need to establish an entrepreneur mindset; creating and sustaining a high results / performance mindset has been the goal for a while now, not simply to think like a businessman.
I already am an entrepreneur and it doesn't feel like that's much of a mindset issue yet.
I also have a new analogy for building my new biz.
Think of a car that can barely reach a speed of 50 mph. I need to tune the engine and get new parts in (new learning, networking - new connections) in order to get past that barrier. Over time, with the proper effort, I should be able to raise my max speed to 60, 70...all the way up to 100+ mph.
The speed is my income, 50 mph being $50k. Over time I might be able to reach 150+ mph, but we're talking about cars here. I might not be able to push much higher since I am limited by things like the tires exploding (not likely, but you get the idea) and soon I'll be reaching the limit of what I can do with the equipment I have.
The only way to break past 200+ mph is to switch over to a plane.
I would have to reinvent myself using completely different learning, new connections and possibly a separate but tangent industry.
Now, a plane can do crazy speeds, so that's irrelevant to specific income now. But I do eventually want to get into real estate, motels, strip malls and ultimately - the big gun - my own hotel. So the analogy still holds up in terms of high income potential.
It also (hopefully) helps solidify my idea of not wanting to use stage 1 & 2 so much now. Those are the stages for sub $100k income. I mean, technically they're not, but they don't have TLAM, so to me they're not higher performance modules.
I could be totally wrong on that last part, but we'll see. Even for sub usage there has to be some degree of experimentation to find out what works best *for us* as I know some of you have already experienced.
Now more than ever, though, I definitely feel as if I'll be a reinvented man by this same time next year. And if all goes well, that will be a welcomed change.
Starting up a new biz is always the hardest.
I've finally found a creative angle to wiggle my way into certain groups so I can get my name out there and be part of small / medium sized product launches.
The idea here is to connect myself with as many product developers / owners as I can so they can slowly spread the word of my work and what i can do.
One of my business friends mentioned this as an off hand comment and though he couldn't see it (we were on voice chat via skype) my eyes lit up at the potential of the idea.
And that's all it takes, really. The tiniest spark - a sort of "Whoa, wait. What if...?" is all i need to get the gears turning.
I also had a mini revelation about BASE.
Stages 1 & 2 are largely devoted to establishing the entrepreneur mindset. They don't really aim to maintain, rather they are there to help form the foundation for the mindset.
When i get to my 3rd and possible final run of BASE I might just remove stages 1 & 2 from my routine and go with stages 3 - 6.
As I reflect back on my first run, that's where the real fun begin. I had the most momentum during stages 3 - 6, and something tells me i should just keep my focus there.
There will be plenty of time for me to reflect and change my mind, but this appears to be a solid idea. The point is to keep the high performance modules of BASE (TLAM, strive to be the best i can be etc) and set aside the entrepreneur building stuff.
I don't want to sound arrogant (though this might have accidentally come across from previous posts lol) but my copy biz will literally be my 4th online business. I don't necessarily need to establish an entrepreneur mindset; creating and sustaining a high results / performance mindset has been the goal for a while now, not simply to think like a businessman.
I already am an entrepreneur and it doesn't feel like that's much of a mindset issue yet.
I also have a new analogy for building my new biz.
Think of a car that can barely reach a speed of 50 mph. I need to tune the engine and get new parts in (new learning, networking - new connections) in order to get past that barrier. Over time, with the proper effort, I should be able to raise my max speed to 60, 70...all the way up to 100+ mph.
The speed is my income, 50 mph being $50k. Over time I might be able to reach 150+ mph, but we're talking about cars here. I might not be able to push much higher since I am limited by things like the tires exploding (not likely, but you get the idea) and soon I'll be reaching the limit of what I can do with the equipment I have.
The only way to break past 200+ mph is to switch over to a plane.
I would have to reinvent myself using completely different learning, new connections and possibly a separate but tangent industry.
Now, a plane can do crazy speeds, so that's irrelevant to specific income now. But I do eventually want to get into real estate, motels, strip malls and ultimately - the big gun - my own hotel. So the analogy still holds up in terms of high income potential.
It also (hopefully) helps solidify my idea of not wanting to use stage 1 & 2 so much now. Those are the stages for sub $100k income. I mean, technically they're not, but they don't have TLAM, so to me they're not higher performance modules.
I could be totally wrong on that last part, but we'll see. Even for sub usage there has to be some degree of experimentation to find out what works best *for us* as I know some of you have already experienced.
Now more than ever, though, I definitely feel as if I'll be a reinvented man by this same time next year. And if all goes well, that will be a welcomed change.
