In another 10 minutes, I had secured
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 5:18 am
In another 10 minutes, I had secured an extra $250 in future income for this month.
Just like that, I had created enough potential upcoming cash flow to cover $375 of the anticipated $388 I’d be paying for the giveaway items if I need to buy them at full retail.
Again, I’m still very confident that I’ll be able to at least get these afghanistan telemarketing data knocked down considerably by knocking on enough doors at sporting goods stores. But, just in case… I wanted to cover all of my bases. Another alternative could be seeking the right small business grant to help fund the start of my business, but I don’t want the strings that come attached to that.
But Ryan, that’s not fair. I don’t have $400 lying around to spend on a giveaway right now and I can’t just send an email to someone & get paid for writing an article today.
Stop wasting time complaining. Seriously.
I just problem-solved the shit out of this situation in 20 minutes.
You can do the same thing in your own way.
Will it take you more than 20 minutes to figure out? Probably, but that’s not the point. The point is that when you want something bad enough, you’re going to do whatever it takes to make it happen.
Here’s a little tough love: In business, you’re going to run into a lot of problems, challenges, tricky situations. It doesn’t slow down—in fact, the challenges usually get more complicated as time goes on and you experience some success.
If you allow yourself to get hung up and stop right here on the very small (but meaningful) goal of validating your business idea, you’re never going to accomplish your biggest goals.
I’m doing everything I have to do right now, today… to achieve my short-term goal of getting enough email subscribers to validate this idea. That’s it. Nothing else matters in this moment.
You have to get creative. You have to become the chief problem-solver in your business.
Even more importantly, you have to realize that you don’t need to make it back the way you lost it. (Which Tim Ferriss also talks about in detail during a recent episode of the Tim Ferriss Podcast)
Just like that, I had created enough potential upcoming cash flow to cover $375 of the anticipated $388 I’d be paying for the giveaway items if I need to buy them at full retail.
Again, I’m still very confident that I’ll be able to at least get these afghanistan telemarketing data knocked down considerably by knocking on enough doors at sporting goods stores. But, just in case… I wanted to cover all of my bases. Another alternative could be seeking the right small business grant to help fund the start of my business, but I don’t want the strings that come attached to that.
But Ryan, that’s not fair. I don’t have $400 lying around to spend on a giveaway right now and I can’t just send an email to someone & get paid for writing an article today.
Stop wasting time complaining. Seriously.
I just problem-solved the shit out of this situation in 20 minutes.
You can do the same thing in your own way.
Will it take you more than 20 minutes to figure out? Probably, but that’s not the point. The point is that when you want something bad enough, you’re going to do whatever it takes to make it happen.
Here’s a little tough love: In business, you’re going to run into a lot of problems, challenges, tricky situations. It doesn’t slow down—in fact, the challenges usually get more complicated as time goes on and you experience some success.
If you allow yourself to get hung up and stop right here on the very small (but meaningful) goal of validating your business idea, you’re never going to accomplish your biggest goals.
I’m doing everything I have to do right now, today… to achieve my short-term goal of getting enough email subscribers to validate this idea. That’s it. Nothing else matters in this moment.
You have to get creative. You have to become the chief problem-solver in your business.
Even more importantly, you have to realize that you don’t need to make it back the way you lost it. (Which Tim Ferriss also talks about in detail during a recent episode of the Tim Ferriss Podcast)