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A Dedicated Thought Process with an End...

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Channel: Zerofatzreturns · 2015 · Howto & Style

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So many people have trouble actually getting started with the things that would actually make them happy or move them closer to accomplishing their goals.  They think and think and study and learn and then never actually just get started.  It’s something that most of us have been guilty of.

The problem is you never get anywhere by doing this.  As a matter of fact you are actually making yourself less effective by increasing your cognitive load.  Everything that you would eventually like to try ends up on a back burner deep within the recesses of your mind.  Pretty soon…you’re always feeling overwhelmed and on a constant hunt to wipe the slate and start all over again.  It’s a cycle and it’s not pretty.  Much of that can be eliminated by just giving yourself only so much time to consider something and then forcing action on the subject.  Let me explain…

I have found that a dedicated thought process with an end followed by imperfect action is more powerful by far than prolonged thought with no defined end.

To be blunt, only give yourself so long to think on something.  Only give yourself so long to learn something.  Only give yourself so long to dwell on something and then force yourself to take action.

I will give you an example of what I mean.  Not too long ago I decided that I wanted to start learning Youtube Paid advertising.  It was something new for me.  I had no idea how to do it.  All I knew at the time was that I really wasn’t getting good results from facebook ads (through no fault of facebook ads, I just didn’t know what I was doing).  So I thought I might try paid ads through Youtube.

What I said to myself was “Self…I am giving you a week to learn as much as you can about Youtube advertising, and at the end of that week get started.”  And that is exactly what I did.

For a week I learned as much as I could.  I read blog articles and ebooks, watched Youtube videos, listened to interviews and podcasts.  At the end of the week I felt like I knew a lot more about Youtube advertising than when I started.  Was I an expert?  Hell no!  I had never even tried it before.  But I set a deadline for myself and it was time to jump in the water.

Fast forward to now. 

I have sense learned even more about Youtube ads.  I have built my email list up quite a bit using these ads.  They are cheap, effective advertising.   I have learned how much potential there is in them.  It’s great. 

However…

If I would not have set that deadline for myself, guess what…I would still be reading about this subject.  I might have even got distracted and moved on to something else.  Then maybe a month later I might have came back to the subject and learned a little more about it when I happened to see some random video about it.

A dedicated thought process with an end followed by imperfect action is more powerful by far than prolonged thought with no defined end.

We live in a world with and endless supply of information.  Everyday, content creators shovel more and more of it onto the internet like it’s their job (oh wait…it is).

Just because all that information is there does not mean that you have to consume it all.  It does not mean that you must read every single thing published.

Embrace the idea of imperfect action.

After a week of learning about Youtube advertising I took action.  I messed up and lost money.  I figured out what did not work.  I tried again.  It got better.  Even now I am not even close to being an expert on the subject but I can tell you one thing…I feel much better about taking imperfect action and seeing some results.

You’re imperfect action will give you results.  Even if it is in the form of failure, now you have real life results of what happens when you do this.  Then comes that ever important question of “why?”  “Why was that not effective?”  It’s a question that you could not have asked before you actually took action and tried.
So in the spirit of getting things done and being a true blue action taker, I challenge you.  Whatever that thing is that you have been thinking of trying that might improve your business or your life, I say give it a set amount of time, learn as much as you can within that time…and then…go for it.

I’ll see you guys in the next one!              -Kam

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