Failing Fast
To See the Whole Video, Go To - Failing Fast Below is a transcription of this video Hey, this is Justin. I’m recording this video and we’re going to call this one Failing Fast. In my life I always looked for that solution that would cause success and the magic bullet we like to say. What I realized is most things just won’t work for most individuals. It doesn’t mean that most things won’t work, but there are a lot more variables that go into implementing any strategy or any plan than you actually think of.
I realized that the success comes when you can fail with something and fail with it quickly because if you keep failing with things and keep trying and learning the lessons from those failures, eventually you’re going to come onto some success. That was Thomas Edison’s strategy with the light bulb. He tried 5,000, 50,000 different things and finally had the success that he needed to create the light bulb. I learnt because I was in a business for about a year and a half, developing a little niche site and it just took too long and never really got it to the place of having success. I realized eventually that the trajectory was probably going to take another couple of years to figure it out the way that we were going and with the amount of effort we wanted to put in. It’s something that I probably knew after a year and a half that I knew after three months, but the lessons didn’t actually sink in because I didn’t see the signals of how slow things were going for that period of time. This is a message for myself and a message for anybody out there who’s actually listening to this. Fail fast and move through things quickly. Try a lot of different stuff out. The only key thing is make sure that what you’re trying out gets implanted and gets finished because there’s a difference between failure and quitting. What I mean by that is, I used to purchase a lot of reports with marketing strategies and I would get those things started and would give up on it before
they would actually be implemented, sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not for good reasons, but those wouldn’t be considered failures. Those would be seen as quitting, which means, again with your stats, let’s just say one out of every ten things that you implement becomes successful. That doesn’t count as one of those ten things. You’ve got to do a lot more of those false starts than you do to actually implement. The key is to, number one, implement what you start and, number two, expect to fail quickly. Eventually what’s going to happen, you’re going to stumble onto that thing that’s going to create your success. Thanks a lot for listening to this. Make today an awesome day.