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Complete Beats Perfect Any Day As An Entrepreneur

Complete Beats Perfect Any Day As An Entrepreneur

by | Online Business

Are you caught in a trap that you can't put your work out there into the online business world until it's perfect? Why? Who says it’s not perfect? Really what exactly is perfect anyways? What if you started to believe that complete beats perfect.

Check the boxes

Do you want to know why complete is better than perfect? Well, of course, you do. I know you do.

Here’s what I mean if you're waiting for some version of perfect, more than likely you’re still tinkering around with something you’re aspiring to create.

When you set the bar too high on the first go around it may never actually be finished in your eyes.

The sad thing is that newer entrepreneurs don’t realize you’ll never actually get it complete and you’ll never put it out there into to make an impact.

Complete Beats Perfect

How do I know? Silly, that was me when I started my entrepreneurship. It’s not perfect was my go-to excuse when I wasn’t ready to release my blog post, social media post, my offer, opt-in, the list can go on and on. Guess what happened, those thoughts kept me safe from judgment. The result? Nothing, but a whole lot of back and forth in my mind cause my own inner critic was way worse than anyone else.

Complete beats Perfect

Take the leap of faith

What if you take the leap of faith, and trust that God has you’re back? That’s what I had to do.

I had to believe that I could be an entrepreneur. I had to believe in myself, I had to believe enough for my husband who kindly supported me in the first few years when I fumbled around.

Here’s my big secret, my mantra.

Business is easy when I take messy imperfect action.

What is perfect?

But, here’s the thing and I've said it time and time again, my idea of perfect and your idea of perfect are two different things.

What?

You guessed it we both have two different perceptions and ideas on what perfect should be.

So what is my point? What are you not getting done or putting out there because you feel it's not up to your standard?

Someone else shoes

For a minute put yourself in someone elses shoes.

What if your offer as it is right now is what your dream client is needing.

Do you find that the right people are brought to you at the right time for where you are in your business?

When you stop getting tangled up in the little thing, running a business is a heck of a lot easier.

Shift from perfect

What if you shifted your mindset to consider everything as a work in progress? Instead of holding back, putting it out into the world as the starting point, and be satisfied adopt the thinking complete beats perfect.

Here is the magic, give yourself permission for revisions.

Doesn't it feel different to look at it from a new perspective? When you giving yourself permission for revisions, it changes your thinking.

It shifts your thinking on how you want to actually do and achieve those goals and projects.

Why not test it for yourself. Get curious and put something out there when it's almost perfect. Take the feedback and revise it to be better than before. Everything in business is a work in progress and complete beats perfect.

l

Little Side Note

Where are you getting tangled up in your life and business? When we get tangled up in all the little things it gets us out of balance. Doing B work is still considered above average, amiright?

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • Why completion is better than perfect.
  • If you’re striving for perfect then you’re still tinkering around with whatever you’re working on and it will never be finished to your satisfaction.
  • Get it done, put it out there.
  • Business is easy when you take messy imperfection action, is my mantra.
  • I've said this time and time again my idea of perfect could be really different than your idea of perfect.
  • Stop trying so hard, make it easy on yourself
  • What if you considered everything a work in progress?
  • Does that change your thinking?

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Why do I believe in the power of private coaching?

Because it is truly life-changing. When your coach asks you that mind-blowing question that suddenly allows you to see what you've been missing all along that was literally right in front of your face.

You just need someone with a different perspective to help you see it.

Are you ready to experience life from a different perspective?

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Turn An Idea Into An Online Business

Turn An Idea Into An Online Business

by | Online Business

When I started my business in 2016, one of the first things I did was research how do I turn my idea into an online business? My idea was to work from home as a virtual assistant. I researched all the things such as; writing a business plan, figure out your niche, who is your ideal client, what services you want to provide, the list goes on and on. All the information can be overwhelming. How do you turn your idea into an online business?

My struggle

As a newbie to the online world and entrepreneurship, I thought that I had a really good idea for my work-from-home business I went out and did all the hard stuff that turns out was the way easy stuff.

I did all the research on the competitors that were offering similar services.

I spent extensive time building a business plan. I invested in online learning. I thought I had everything figured out logistically such as contracts, invoices, proposals, software all the things like that I needed to onboard the clients and make an impact.

Don’t get me wrong, those pieces are essential when you turn an idea into an online business. As it turns out, I also believe those are the easy part of starting your online business.

Yes, I do know that sounds crazy. But stay with me here, the actual hard part is getting out of your own way. That was my struggle when it came to turning my idea into an online business.

I can almost hear you thinking what the heck is she even talking about. The problem was as a new online entrepreneur I let my monkey minds get in the way of the things that I wanted to achieve in my online business.

No Stones Coming From Here

If you are experiencing the monkey mind, let me assure you that no stones will be coming from this direction, LOL. You see it takes one to know one, am I right?

This was me when I started out going from an employee to an entrepreneur. I did all those things, all those easy things. Thinking they were the hard things.

Here’s the main issue with that, doesn’t matter how fabulous your business plan is or your onboarding process if you do not have the confidence to put yourself out there and find clients that need the services you are offering.

Turn An Idea Into An Online Business

All the things

If you take months to get everything on the back end figured out, you have zero money coming into the business. That’s the problem.

How do you even know if people want what you have to offer?

The solution is simple, start with a beta test for your idea.

When you start with a beta, it allows you to figure out if there is actual interest in your offer.

Here’s why it’s important to validate your offer, you will bring money in the door and it builds your confidence to actually provide that service or create that course.

With a beta, you’ll figure out if you’re on the right track. Are you giving people what they actually want versus what you think they want? Because they are truly two different things.

Stops the Worry

Because the thing is when you build that confidence piece of what you have to offer, your idea is desirable for people.

This my Friend, in turn, helps you to not worry.

Worry about saying the wrong thing, worry about putting the wrong social posts out on social media, worrying about all those things that come along when you aren't confident in what you're doing, what you’re saying, and putting out there in the world.

The hard part to Turn An Idea Into An Online Business

The hard part is when you're just getting started and you do not have that confidence to getting out there and tell others about your offer.

The hard part is staying focused when you hear no to your idea.

It feels so personal. But, it is not. It is the feedback to tweak how you are presenting your idea to others.

It's having the confidence to keep going even when you do not get the yes.

Fortunately for me, as a former sales rep, I understood that you have to get a lot of no before you hear a yes.

As long as you have the confidence that you have a solution to a problem. You don't have to worry about any of the other things.

The result of worry will get you absolutely nowhere to turn an idea into an online business. It will only keep you stuck in worry and questioning if you're doing the right thing or not.

Say You Can

Guess what, I believe in you, I know that you can go out and have the confidence to turn an idea into an online business.

l

Little Side Note

I have a mean girl, how about you?
I can hear her whisper to me anytime that I’m having doubts in regards to my ability. She is attempting to keep me safe, really she only keeps me stuck.
Because I know that I’m a mean girl, I’m able to do the work need to shut her down to change my thinking about myself. If you’re a new online entrepreneur, this work is essential to your success.

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • I researched all the things such as; writing a business plan, figure out your niche, who is your ideal client, what services you want to provide, the list goes on and on.
  • I found out that the actual hard part is getting out of your own way.
  • It doesn’t matter how fabulous your business plan is or your onboarding process if you do not have the confidence to put yourself out there and find clients that need the services you are offering.
  • If you take months to get everything on the back end figured out, you have zero money coming into the business. That’s the problem.
  • How do you even know if people want what you have to offer?
  • Because the thing is when you build that confidence piece of what you have to offer, your idea is desirable for people.
  • The hard part is when you're just getting started and you do not have that confidence to getting out there and tell others about your offer.
  • The hard part is staying focused when you hear no to your idea.
  • Get your offer out there!
Step Into Clarity In Your Online Business

Step Into Clarity In Your Online Business

by | Online Business

Is this ever you? It’s the end of the day you’re reflecting on the stuff that you worked on in your online business. Even though you were busy bee looking back your heart sinks as you realize that time and hard work were directed at items that will not push you into the six-figure club anytime soon. Heck, you’d be lucky if it brought you a coffee at your local coffee shop. How do you step into clarity and stop wasting time on stuff that is not moving you forward?

What is stepping into clarity?

You must be wondering, what do you need to do to actually step into clarity and why is it even important as an entrepreneur.

Stepping into clarity is getting crystal clear on your actual topic, the thing that you love to talk but it is so second nature you don't realize that you love to talk about it.

Here’s the interesting part discovering your thing that can be hard. I had a coach tell me it's really hard to read the label from inside the bottle. That one phrase has stuck with me.

Because it is really hard to read the label from inside the bottle. Sometimes you need to have somebody else to guide you through that in order to figure it out.

Figuring Out Your Thing

And now you’re thinking, what is my label? Fortunately, there’s a simple solution pay attention to the thing that people seek you out for to ask about.

What do you have so much life experience with that you could talk about it for days. Or is it the thing that you think you’re not an expert in but really you are? The thing that you love so much even though you’ve taken hundreds of online courses you can’t help yourself to sign up for 101. Is that your thing?

Step into Clarity

So what is your thing?

So instead of starting and stopping, or trying to do too many things, what is the one offer that you could focus on to actually make your business easy, and to make everything else come easy to you?

Stepping into clarity on want you want to offer allows you to put you're focused on one thing.

And the best part is, with all your time and energy focused you’ll know what is that next action to create an offer.

You have the idea

How do you know if your idea is the right offer? Stepping into clarity on your offer will be something that people want, need, and ask you about. You will feel comfortable and confident talking about it.

Stay on your path

Stay with me now, please not get discouraged if clients aren’t knocking down your door in the beginning.

Focus on one person at a time. That's a perfect place to start. Keep on putting your offer out there for prospective clients. Sales it's really just a numbers game. It is making sure that you talk to enough people to be able to find the ones that actually resonate with your message, your offer, and what you have.

It's getting clear on your path to know when you start to stray off of it. When the next shiny object starts to pull you away from your offer before you’re finished. You're creating that clear path of where you need to go in your business.

Once you have a plan in place, then you can tell when you start to get off track a little bit. That’s okay step back into that clarity.

It boils down to this, gaining that confidence and belief in yourself.

Because you can do this, you absolutely can do this.

We all have our stories

We all have our stories that we tell ourselves when stuff feels difficult in our business.

Case in point, this stepping into clarity happened during a coaching session with a client.

She’s been struggling in business for the last few years. Frustrated, stressed, and overwhelmed with all the decisions.

She was jumping from one offer to the next without taking the time to understand what makes her shine. She was only focused on finding an offer that made money.

She loves to talk about simple living, her garden, her farm but never truly stepping into clarity or confidence on her offer. Instead, she was going back and forth with what she could offer that she thought people would want to buy.

Her list of coulds was long. She had so many things, so many half-built ideas she could do and offer. Not one of those offers truly made her shine with the energy of excitement.

But what was happening is she wasn't actually stepping into her clarity.

She wasn't looking at what people were seeking her out to asking how she does that. The things that when she talked about it came naturally and you could tell she was excited to talk about it.

So what happens is, that is the intersection of clarity at that point was when she actually figured out what it was that people asked her about and what it was that she truly loved doing. Amazing, isn’t it?

When you get to the intersection of what people seek you out for and a topic that brings out your energy of excitement, That is stepping into clarity of your offer.

Once that became clear, everything else became very simple for her. Her offer became easy to create.

She knew exactly the next actions to take.

I was able to help her fill in on the few that she wasn't sure about or missing.

She finally understood business can feel really simple and easy. When you figure out what you want to offer that brings the energy of excitement, what you love to talk about, what answers your sought out, and what you feel confident doing.

When you're not continually running into self-doubt.

When you step into clarity then all the other pieces seem to fall into place seamlessly without much thought or effort on your part.

The days of wasting time and energy thinking about what you could create seems to go away when you step into clarity as an online entrepreneur.

I hope you found this post beneficial, I look forward to seeing you next week and I appreciate you.

l

Little Side Note

Where are you not clear in your online business? 

Spend time journaling out your thoughts to get clear on what you love to do. 

Start with a mind sweep and use those as your journaling prompt. 

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

  • Stepping into clarity is getting crystal clear on your actual topic, the thing that you love to talk but it is so second nature you don't realize that you love to talk about it.
  • What is your one thing instead of starting and stopping or trying to do too many things.
  • It is getting focused on what comes easy to you.
  • Getting clear on next actions to create an offer
  • Understanding that sales are a numbers game
  • Creating a clear path when you start to stray from your path
  • That is stepping into clarity
  • Having the confidence to believe in yourself
  • One of my coaching clients had a clarity breakthrough. She has been in business for a few years and loves to talk about simple living. But never was finding the right offer for her.
  • She has so many ideas she could do and wasn't stepping into her clarity.
  • During our session, we broke down what she loved to do and what people asked her about all the time.
  • That is the intersection of clarity.