12 January 2012 ~ 5 Comments

3 Types of Action Takers and How to Become One – FA082

“I Have To Know Everything Before I Do Anything.” ~ Analysis Paralysis

This episode is all about giving yourself permission to get started…

To get the beginnings of a business going…

To build the skills necessary for success.

This episode is also about giving yourself permission to not make thousands of dollars a day in thirty days. It is okay to make mistakes because it’s the only way to learn…

The only way to get the skills to pay the bills.

Listen to this episode about Action Takers and Learn How to Become One.

Enjoy your Foolish Actions,

Tim and Lain


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  • http://digitalscrapbookinghq.com Melissa Shanhun

    Ok Tim – I’m totally the girl in the front row! Or maybe the mature age student that asks all the questions!

  • http://FoolishAdventure.com Tim Conley

    Ha ha. You listened all the way to the end. How’s that for an outtake?

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely loved this, very timely. Like fat loss, I find that it is very easy for me to obsess over outcomes and need to remind myself to focus more on the process and tasks involved that ultimately lead to events; after that then everything else will just fall into place :)

  • Guest

    Listening to this I’m thinking the reason many people don’t succeed is because they’re too contrived. They’re focused on receiving money rather than what value they have or could come to control that could become a product or scalable automated service. Even more so, they become defeated before they begin by being conditioned to rely on someone else to tell them how to think instead of cultivating the ability to question, think critically, and persevere on their own using their own analysis of what’s needed in the world around them. People seeking gurus and help for the purpose of being taught how to do something usually are focused on money. That is diametrically opposed to someone who genuinely wants to learn how to do something because the person is compelled to create quality work, loves practicing a particular craft, and wants to share something wonderful with the world.

    Tony Robbins, bless him, has an entry level coaching
    program fee of $500 monthly just for his trainees to fit his material,
    that anyone who’s kept tabs on his work has heard many times before but were too scared to
    implement, to their life. That’s what I’d like to call ‘insecurity tax’ and it’s clearly expensive. This is similar to how some businesspeople
    say the lottery is a tax for those who are bad at math. I feel the
    reason why people don’t implement is because they’re being abstract
    and not tactile enough. They’re thinking about what can be done theoretically but not how they specifically would go about doing it themselves which is a point of view that is probably necessary to get from point A to point B.

    That said, I wish there was more focus on how to change your environment. I live in a situation where I’ve been conditioned to feel incapable and have had my worse habits enabled. I’m college age, come from a partial minority background, and am confronted with a lot of negativity, insecurity, and sabotage whenever I disclose to family and friends that I intend to achieve anything that isn’t slaving away all day under some close-minded paymaster like they do. I know it’s probably a good idea to practice integrating more with society and articulation instead of using online means to live but thus far I’ve been trying to exercise web options because it seems easier. I can sometimes find myself to be self-conscious in social situations. I know social skill is something anyone can develop with practice so my challenge is to portray the signs of success that will allow people to believe in my abilities, which has been hard to do with my current lifestyle and background. You see, I live in my childhood home and don’t work traditionally. I am self-employed via a nice niche Zazzle store which is live online. I have a lot of pride and am allowed to live here so I have no motivation to suffer the pain of menial jobs that could pay a larger sum more frequently than royalties from my unadvertised web stores because they make me feel undervalued and embarrassed. Entry-level workplaces treat their staff as if they’re morons who are not capable of much more than cleaning and low expectations like those are toxic to my entrepreneurial ambition. I don’t like having to constantly prove myself to be different from stereotype expectations that come with having only a high school level of formal education; alone in my thoughts I can feel the immense potential of all of my ideas. It’s as if a person who doesn’t convey certainty or conversational fluidity when they speak cannot gain trust or good faith for themselves or their ideas. Since I don’t have a person to regularly practice speaking my business ideas verbally in a way that will be well received, I never get a chance to practice being a good entrepreneur. When it comes to influence and when I do give a pitch to someone it comes out in broken language and is unconvincing. On the opposite end, since my father strongly believes in the unfairness of the world, he considers allowing me to stay here without unaccountability to be a benevolent act in an otherwise cold and cruel world. I have no accountability for career growth whatsoever living here and since I have been trained to value comfort and to genuinely feel that family are the only people one can trust, I physiologically have no aversion to staying inside on the internet all day. Hitting rock bottom is basically impossible for my situation unless I forcibly make myself homeless which seems insanely inappropriate given that I don’t feel confident in my ability to survive taking that course of action and am tired of being perceived with inferiority as it is.

    During the typical 9-5 hours, I’m at home on an internet-accessible PC and thanks to the Zazzle store I have collected 500USD to invest into either small capitalization stock trading newsletters I’ve found on Investimonials, the creation of a web asset selling digital media products (so far all of my ideas have been quality to the point that they require expert compensation that I always forecast to be outside of my budget), or something else. I usually avoid admitting to this and prefer to hide my flaws but avoiding pain is only going to help to sustain this unideal existence. That’s not something I want to do anymore. Any suggestions about how I can best find an environment that is conducive to developing an entrepreneur’s charisma or create a stream of cash flow that could rival a part-time or full-time job with 500 American dollars is appreciated.

    Love the podcast
    Love you guys

  • http://FoolishAdventure.com Tim Conley

    First, I want to thank you for a very thoughtful comment and voicing fears and insecurities that many people around the world feel.

    I agree that most people are conditioned to rely on the systems (government, schools, corporations) and people that surround them before relying upon themselves.  I even find myself framing solutions to problems based on whether there is an authority in the field I can learn from or a store I can buy a product to solve the problem all before I try to solve it myself.

    This is conditioning and laziness.  Humans do like getting things the easy way and this can be detrimental to entrepreneurship which requires delaying gratification for a long time — sometimes many years.

    As for overcoming where you are at in your life, if I’ve read your comment correctly, you want to change, but you don’t desperately want to change.  Am I right?

    There’s a saying that goes something like this, “If your why is big enough, you can figure out any how.”  I think I first heard it from Tony Robbins.  

    In my self-education to become a marketer, I would get advice such as “write a sales letter for your product.”  But I didn’t know how to do it.  So I found training on how to write sales letters.  The more I learned about writing sales letters, the more I invested in learning more.  I did this because my why (selling products so I could pay my bills) was big enough to overcome my fear of failure, the uncertainty that I’d be able to do it and the complete lack of knowledge in the beginning.

    I’m not going to tell you how to be charismatic.  I don’t think it is a requirement for success in business.  

    To succeed in business you have to have something of value that others will pay you for and that they’ll pay you more than what it costs you to deliver to them.

    I would highly recommend you learn a valuable skill that people in your area or people you find online would be eager to pay you to do.

    The next thing is to not tell anyone in your life what you are doing unless you know that they will cheer you on.  You may find that the only people you can do this with are other entrepreneurs online.  

    Once you start succeeding, more people will start cheering you on.

    As for your $500.  Don’t spend it on anything just yet.  Find the valuable skill you are going to learn and study all the free information on it.  Go to a library if you have to.  Then you need to practice.

    And then you need to find a real person to pay you something so that you can get real-world experience.

    Keep doing this over and over with more and more customers.

    Since you are making money from a Zazzle store, look to the skills you are using to make money and get really good at it.  This could be search engine optimization, Google Adwords, email marketing, content writing, setting up ecommerce stores.  There really isn’t an end to the valuable skills you have within your reach that others would be willing to pay you to do.

    Next is to go out and meet other business people in real life.  Don’t whine to them about your situation.  They won’t want to hear it.  Do offer to be of assistance — not a servant, but a helpful peer.  Maybe you’ll meet someone who wants a WordPress site set up and you do it for them and then the next thing you know that person is referring work to you.

    Save up your money.  Build a steady income from client work.  Move to a place where other entrepreneurs hang out.  This can be in your own country, city or you can move to another country.  Learn to sell products (even digital ones) whether they are your products or an affiliates products.

    Repeat over and over until you have achieved the success you desire.

    Good luck,

    t