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The Psychology of Starting Up a Business Series
At first, I didn’t think I needed a startup series because I’ve been in business for over 9 years, but, as it turns out, it was very helpful. I’m really glad I decided to buy it. I’ve been through each section at least 3 times and every time I listen it seems like there is another gem that I didn’t catch the first time.
As a result of listening to the series, I got a lot more clarity with regard to what kind of content I should create for my audience. I have always thought I needed to do something really unique or new, but in the series, I learned that boring and repetitive works. And now, I am able to drill down and get to second-tier problems. In my industry (teaching guitar and music theory) there are bajillion resources, so making another theory course has seemed like a daunting task because you can get the info anywhere. But now, together with the Infoproducts Course, I know how to make it really valuable.
The specific feature I liked most about the series.
I like that it came in both audio and video. I watched the video first and then listened to the audio while I was driving or doing mindless work. It helps a lot to have the visual first, it somehow augments even the audio when you’re listening to it later.
Three other benefits
1. Understanding the concept of second-tier problems was extremely helpful.
2. The concept of reframing has already helped me in small ways, and I anticipate being able to make lots of small changes that will help me do the same tasks in less time
3. I’ve heard Sean talk about some of these concepts before, but he explains them in more depth in this course and that was very helpful. Understanding the why and not just the what puts a bit of weight on his ideas and helps me see why they are so important and useful.
I would recommend this product to anyone getting started in business should buy this. I benefited from it after being in business for almost 10 years.
There were no obstacles that prevented me from buying The Goal Setting Book. The price was very low and I needed some refinement in my goal setting
As a result of buying the product: I found that the big “three” to be very foundational and the anchor to look at every time to steer off course
The specific feature you liked most about-The Goal Setting Webinar:
The idea of “three” and focusing on three goals
Three other benefits:
The idea of reserving vacation even though I have not yet implemented it. Breaking down the goals in the three more tasks
Yes, I would recommend this product because he price, and because it builds a foundation for goal setting
The weekly and even daily goal setting was a bit too much for me. I could not keep track of that in my own daily life, and veered off course many times when trying to stick with a weekly list of tasks.
Paul do Campo
I have an aversion to courses and writing about goal setting because, to my mind, they present themselves as another new way to fail at setting goals. Besides, it’s not goal setting that’s the problem. That’s easy. It’s the long term commitment to goal achieving that I struggle with.
So, my default is to say thanks but no thanks. But when I saw Sean D’Souza’s course billed as “how to achieve at least 50% of your goals (in a given year),” I thought this could be the ticket for me.
My two biggest objections to goalsetting were dispelled. First, I could plan to fail at least 50% of the time, and I had a whole year to achieve only half of my goals!
Seriously, the thing it impressed upon me most was that there is no magic juice for goalsetting. When someone who puts out the quantity and quality of work that Sean does is willing to give you a peek into his process, you see the truth.
And you also get to find out why Groundhog Day might just be the most important holiday of all for goalsetting.
If you’re tired of goalsetting books and courses, this product will help you to understand why they don’t work. More importantly, you’ll have 100% clarity about what does work.
Much blood, sweat ,tears and ink has been spent on Goal setting resulting in tons of material and views. Difficult to bring in a new perspective, ” Achieving 50% of planned” is bold in an already saturated topic. That said, in the first pass through my notes I found I knew nearly all of what was said. And I knew knowing wasn’t enough 🙂 . It was only in the 2nd pass where I could go slightly deeper and the following were my takeaways:
1. Spending time on planning is important. Realising we may not be spending enough time more so (reminded of Abe Lincoln’s oft quoted, ” Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first 4 hours sharpening the axe”.
2. Someone said ” Plans disintegrate on meeting the enemy” they do but not planning is worse still. The quote reminds me of “Resistance” (Procrastination, fear etc.) the enemy which doesn’t let us Execute our plans. Effective countermeasures to “Resistance” in “The Roll out Strategy and Avoiding burnout” and within these the focus on 3 things and only 3 things and running with them. ( Fascinating sticking to 3, neither too little nor too much)
3. “Journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step” hence your stressing on importance of weekly (recurring, bit by bit), Quarterly and Yearly in that order and re-adjusting (an apt analogy of driving), knowing one may be wrong.
Am an aspiring writer and I like to read a lot. Hoping the following will transform my journey from a consumer to a creator 🙂
1. Plan : Segregating reading into 2 parts – a) That which helps refine my writing b) That which provides food for thought (as a wise man once said, some books are to be tasted, others chewed and digested).
2. Overcoming Resistance : a) Weekly read one book, write a summary b) Join AWC self-study 🙂
Many thanks for the opportunity Sean and Renuka. Here’s to a Take-2 on the Goal setting 🙂
Probhu Sayee
Chennai, India
I know there goal setting is such a topic that has been discussed endlessly, but I have also realised that sometimes value comes from repetition + listening to it from someone you trust + in a different manner. Almost nothing I have realised, I have learned it the very first time. It has been repetition in many different ways. It could be just me though!
It was very valuable to me to see how YOU go about doing it.
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Art of choosing based on 3×3 model was great.
Choosing doesn’t seem to be a big deal, you just choose. But it has been one of MY personal challenges, fear of losing and fear of choosing. So I definitely did that with bigger goals this year. I had never chosen three but I realised how I kept falling in trap year after year in the past. Again, it’s one thing to have information out there on the web and totally different from someone who I trust deeply. I’d happily pay for deciphering the wheat from the chaff alone.
Connection during a live webinar
I personally felt energised overall connecting with you live and other people. I would travel all the way from here to NZ to do that, so this was pretty much the treat and next best thing for me. I would have loved Renuka to come on live for a couple of minutes though. 😉
(Purposeful) Groundhog day
Watching that even your days look like groundhog was awesome. I have always loved a peek into your daily diary, however boring it may seem to you. 😉 It was great because we are all living groundhog at some level but where the difference lies is yours is connected and designed based on your long term goals. So it must feel more purposeful, and that’s one way of measuring success.
50% is great – so relax
It may not be a ground breaking idea, but to get a permission slip from someone ahead of you to honestly admit that you only completed half of what you aimed for was a great relief. I have learned (from you) how this ideology of setting bigggggg goals is actually harming some of us in so many ways. It’s detrimental to the confidence, I have definitely experienced it myself.
To know you didn’t end up doing all things you planned for made me feel like, it’s a humanly thing to do, so I can back off my own case a bit. It lit up a light bulb in my head that aiming for consistency and quality is far better than aiming for these non sensical big goals.
Detail and expect it to be wrong
Again, that was a great reminder that if a plan isn’t in detail – when it will come to groundhog day, it will feel like a churn but your mind will have no pointer or map it can relate those tasks to. I learnt that it’s better to even carve out the time to creating that plan in detail and with an expectation that it will change, and you will spend 1/5th time in creating those plans.
Me and my husband talked about the number one reason we don’t achieve goals, and we found out that for us atleast, it was becasue we don’t have enough checkpoints to refer to the plan and change it. We simply forget about our plans. So again, dedicating time to planning is a great investment of time to actually making them happen. That was good.
Something I would have loved seeing more of is you actually going through the mind map and explaining what you are thinking while doing that + How do you recharge on the weekends and how do you not fall off the bandwagon in those days, for example when you were trying to lose weight. But I understand time constraints. And I can always ask here.
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Following the workshop, Me and my husband sat down for a couple of hours today and decided our goals for one area each based on your philosophies and method. We are going to do that this whole week to complete all areas and business.
I didn’t feel comfortable sharing it all but my mindmap looked as neat as yours, or almost. hee hee 😉
(I smiled when you said in the webinar, I could tear off the perforated sheets if it’s not neat. I remember growing up in school, I would spend days to tear off pages from notebooks, and even create them from scratch and do homeworks all over again to get that beautifully written homework book. I thought my perfectionism, but later on I realised it was more my love for beauty and art. I saw that as my work of art in many ways.)
Neha Awasthi
Australia
My learnings are:
1) 3 points/tasks/items are enough.
2) 50% is more (and enough) than zero.
3) it’s all about strategy.
Mario Carla
Germany
3 learnings:
1. Groundhog Day – the most impactful image left in my mind is your immaculate daily lists with times attached, and Renuka’s diary with tasks listed and crossed out, listed and crossed out + the spreadsheet for getting the podcast out :blink: — makes me realise again how one need to list the sub-tasks, not single ‘do’ items.
2. The question “How can I do 4 months work in 3 months?”
3. Pre-sell it to one person, take actual money from them, and give them a date.
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My 3 goals for the year are:
– the Stickman book
– the Meditation on Paper course
– the wobble-free speed course
Alison Beere
S.Africa
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Thank you, Sean.
My learning points:
The amount of time spent in planning – 1/5 of the week. (My default: not planning very much and not doing planning “away from the office”).
The idea of making the best plan you can at the outset but expecting it will be wrong / incomplete and reviewing and revising it as you go along – i.e. definitely HAVE a plan written down but treat it as an evolving organism (My default: not writing plans down either at all or in enough detail and often failing to start projects due to analysis paralysis).
This not to say I’m “depressed” by the above. Since taking a more hands on approach to marketing my small business from 2012 and especially from 2014/15, with the help of 5000bc I’ve improved my article writing (private study course) in terms of enthusiasm, ideas and output, and I’ve started doing podcasts and (very recently) video, all inspired by this place.
My main thing I would like to do from here is try to spend more and better time planning.
Thanks again. I hope you do another webinar soon.
Peter Brash
UK
1. A reminder to regularly plan – plan the week, plan the month, plan the year… and plan the DAY
2. Define your “tuna sandwich” – if you don’t know what your priorities are, you probably won’t work toward them
3. Aim to achieve 50% of what you set out to do every day. Going for 100% is rarely realistic. See #2 above and focus on that.
4. Find a way to create external pressure – a deadline; a waiting customer; a promised reward; an accountability partner
My big takeaways and implementations: defining my Top 3 and working toward them every day. I have 2 very big priorities right now, and both have a built-in end-of-month deadline to be done so the outside pressure piece is in place. In fact, I’m heading off to work on them now…
Natalya Murphy
USA
Thank you, Sean, for the webinar. Your reimbursement was insufficient for your effort.
My take away was an algorithm:
Select –> Plan –> Execute, fail, adapt, execute, fail, adapt… –> Protect.
Steve Harris
Indonesia
Here is what I learned
1) Planning
I’m not sure if I had planned before. Sounds odd, but I do make my thoughts of what to do and where the direction should go, but I had never written it down. One take away is definitely to make my planning explicit. I need to write it down.
I like the system of focusing on just three big or new things per year, and plan in quarters, weeks and daily.
I also like the habit of doing things daily, no matter how far it goes. Little tasks every day moves you further instead of not doing anything while being overwhelmed.
Two weeks ago I started to do the weekly planning. I’m looking at what needs to get done this week and move the task to random days where I think I could get it done.
I’m still not sure if only three big things are “enough” to get to my sandwich. But again, three things are better than achieving none of them.
2) Being honest about being not perfect
As a little perfectionist, I know that my perfectionism stands in my way more often than it helps. So it’s a big one to leave that behind and accept that If I achieve 50% (or let’s say 80% 🙂 ) of my goals it is FINE.
3) Working solo
This is a hard one, too. I always worked solo because I never had anybody which shares my passion for what I’m doing. I understand that this isn’t very healthy, but I don’t know how to change this.
4) Split things up
Another one, which I learned already is splitting tasks into smaller tasks. Things like writing portions of an article in a week, instead of doing it in one go. I need to transfer this habit to other tasks as well.
Alexander Feil
Germany
What I learned emotionally from that webinar is so much more powerful.
Why? Because the ground of the Webinar is born in Sean and Renuka philosophy is that what we expect and get.
What I liked was the webinar was:
Clear and easy to understand. It gives you the knowledge and skill that are easy to implement. We get it, every single time. Nothing more, but much more important nothing less. I love it.
Martin Rösler
Germany
1. Planning is a lot like learning. You complete a behavior, and then adjust to get a more nuanced result next time. Hopefully moving towards your goal. Don’t get hung up on a “perfect” plan or “perfect” execution. Perfection doesn’t exist.
2. Decide on your “3 things” and complete 3 things that fall under each point. Then move on to the next of your “3 things.” Hopefully that makes sense.
3. Stop “thinking” and just do, but do thoughtfully. Be a fredgehog, not a fox. Fox=chaos.
Jen Jackson
Seattle
Here are some of my insights after the presentation percolated into my brain during my sleep.
1. No Attachment
When a lot of time is invested in planning (which is what I typically do, for instance over the past 2 weeks I spent over 50 hours in planning, because that is what my day job is), there is a tendency to get attached to the plan.
This is very difficult when the plan changes because this attachment makes it difficult to make changes to the plan. As a result, after a point, I tend to abandon the plan. So there needs to be a sense of objectivity and non-attachment while doing the plan so that I constantly remember why I do the planning – it is to get things done, and not to keep the plan pretty and on track right from the beginning.
2. No Going Solo
Going solo drains energy. I suspect that’s the trouble I am having in kickstarting my project. I have started a Taking Action Plan, but I would really love to discuss the business with someone on a daily basis until I get the momentum going. If I have to go solo, then I need to acknowledge that this is a high energy task and it does need a big chunk of thinking and doing time.
3. Regular Reviews
I do a monthly reviews of my habits, but not of my goals. So I need to sit back and do frequent reviews, starting with putting my goals in a place where I can see it, and tie it back to my habits and my reviews. If possible, start doing fortnightly and weekly reviews.
Shirisha Nagendran
Bangaluru, India
The biggest take away is the Fedgehog Day Method. It makes so much sense in many ways.
I’ve also realised that I’ve understood one thing terribly wrongly previously before the webinar, that one thing is “Just Pick Three”.
I understood the randomness of picking (you won’t know until it’s done) BUT in my mind, the three things can be of completely different things (for example creating information product , provide digital marketing service and selling properties)
While in actual fact, the three things Sean picked for the year were obviously still all pointing to the same thing: The Psychotactics website/community.
Now I know it’s not pick any three things, it’s pick a single anchor/thing/theme then pick three goals to serve/grow it, but which exact goal you pick to serve/grow actually doesn’t matter that much.
Ashley Yuan
Singapore
My biggest learning: The sandwich has been the one going around my head for the past few days. I think I’ve used that word everyday since when talking with my wife.
Simon Lamey
UK