How not to be a beginner…

There are two traps that every beginner falls into.

Trap number 1:

Everyone gets caught up in this idea that their first move has to be perfect.

That they have to come out with a finely polished idea to execute straight away.

If people waited for this brilliant idea.

How many times would you actually start a business?

None.

This misplaced idea that everything has to be perfect from the get go, has infiltrated pop culture.

You see movies where the main character has the eureka moment.

And everything falls into place.

But life doesn’t work like that.

For example when you start a new job the expectation is you take a month or so to get up to speed.

The another month to start getting into your groove.

Then another month after that to started making some changes.

But when it comes to learning a new skill or starting a business we expect ourselves to be perfect.

We don’t allow ourselves to be beginners.

And so we never start the very thing that we having been dreaming of our whole lives.

But don’t get it twisted, I am not saying to let go of all standards.

Execute to the best of your ability at that time, and ship it no matter what.

This bring me on to trap number 2:

We underestimate the amount of volume it takes to get good at something.

We often start with the bare minimum it takes to get good at something.

And it makes sense.

When you start you suck AND it takes ages to do.

So why would you try and do more right?

But that’s not the way to look at it.

Let’s say most beginners commit to creating at least 1 posts a week.

It might take a few hours to create.

In 10 weeks, they’ve created 10 posts.

But let’s say you committed to doing 10 times the volume, so 10 posts in a week.

In that one week, you’ve learned the same as the first person has in 10 weeks.

The difference in skill over the same time frame is going to be huge.

Which will only get bigger with time.

And these two traps are the exact two traps I fell into with these emails.

I didn’t start for so long because I thought I wasn’t good enough to be writing and sending these emails.

And that’s partly why I haven’t been advertising my email (and I’m only at 14 subscribers).

Because I assumed I had to be perfect to start.

Mistake number 1.

Mistake number two was I was writing 1 email a week, if that.

It would take me a year to write 50 emails.

Which is not even the bare minimum to get good.

So now I am planning on writing one every week day.

And I know this going to take up so much time at the start.

But the goals to to be able to bang out a half decent email in 15 mins.

So my advice on how to be a beginner:

Start that thing you’ve wanted to start.

And commit 100%.

The rest will come with time.

But this is my way of telling you I’m gonna be sending emails a lot more often from now on.

So if you’re sick of me already, or cannae be fucked to delete my emails every day.

Just hit that big old unsubscribe.

If not, love you and see you soon,

Jack