I'm about to share with you the common thread that ties together
all successful entrepreneurs. This single trait launched the
businesses of Microsoft, Intel, Hershey, JP Morgan, Amazon.com,
Nike and so many others. It's not anything you'll be taught in
Business School, it has nothing to do with accounting, and it
doesn't even have anything to do with what you're selling or how
you're selling it. I'll sum it up in two words:
GET STARTED!
That's it! It's laughable at first, but the more you think about
it, the more it makes sense. It's the missing "million dollar"
idea, hiding in plain sight. We hear variations of this all the
time: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Think back to your first writing classes in school. How were we
taught to write a paper? First we start with a basic outline -
that's our money-making idea, whatever it may be. Next, we make
a rough draft - that's right, we start working on something that
we know for a fact will be imperfect. Finally, we use our
rough-draft as a basis to begin revisions, eventually ending up
with a final draft, the "perfect" version.
Planning for tomorrow is a sound business strategy. It's good to
spend time thinking about the future, and how to handle the
challenges it will bring. But, if we want to succeed,
we must
create the future by taking action today. We can't possibly
predict everything that might happen once we start doing
business. Microsoft started out selling programming software.
After a few years, an opportunity presented itself to sell a
computer Operating System to IBM, and they took it. The result
was MS-DOS (
which they didn't even create themselves, they
bought it from someone else when they saw how much money they
could make!), followed by Windows; quite possibly one of the
most lucrative products ever. If Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the
founders of Microsoft, had sat on the sidelines of the growing
computer industry thinking "programming software is an OK idea,
but it's not perfect, there really isn't a big enough market for
it...we need something better", would they be where they are
today? Would IBM have given them that golden opportunity? Not
likely.
Did Michelangelo's sculpture of David emerge from a single tap
of a chisel upon a block of marble? No, it took Michelangelo
over 3 years of effort to release his masterpiece from the
stone, one tiny chip of marble at a time. It probably wasn't
very pretty after only 1 month, or even a year. But years of
careful improvement resulted in a classic work of art.
I hope I've made my point. Do something. Do anything! If you do
something, and the result isn't what you wanted, what's the
worst that could happen? You either have something to improve
upon, or you have a very good idea of an approach that doesn't
work (think of it as addition by subtraction...the process of
elimination). Either way, you're one step closer to success than
you were before you started.
Go for it! Give it a shot! Your financial success is waiting for
you, go and get it! Get Started Today!
Good Luck!
Jeff Watt
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