Do you ever find yourself making decisions to please or appease other people? How has that worked for you? Chances are, you have either not had the results you planned to or you have backed down from your idea entirely. Neither of these situations is optimal, and Adam provides some excellent perspective on this topic based on one of Aesop’s fables of long ago and tells you how to turn things around and start with a win.
Show Notes
The topic of this episode of the Start with a Win podcast is “getting your ass to market.” Adam recounts one of the famous Aesop’s fables about an old man, a young boy, and a donkey. The old man decides to take the donkey to market to sell it, so the three set off walking to the market. Along the way, they encounter several people with opinions about how they should be making the trip, and because the old man takes all of their suggestions, the donkey never makes it to the market to be sold. This results in a large loss in livelihood for the man, but a deep lesson for all those who learned from his misfortune: if you try to please everyone, you never get where you need to go.
In the current business environment, everyone has an opinion, and they are quick to give unsolicited and uneducated advice. There are four types of people who give their opinions:
- Uninvested, uninterested – These people are the most likely to give unsolicited advice; just say “thanks” and move on.
- Uninvested, interested
- Invested, uninterested
- Invested, interested – You should consider how much of what they are saying is true and what their stake is in the situation.
Even if you don’t take their advice, just listening to them might cause you to doubt or rethink your plan of action and cause unnecessary delays. You don’t make money on things you don’t launch, so just be a “doer” and get things done.
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What is Start With A Win?
Every day you have a choice. You can wake up and choose to give in to mediocrity and complacency, you can choose bad habits and poor choices, and you can do the bare minimum to get by and fly under the radar. Or you can choose to make today the day that sets you apart from the crowd, you can choose to start doing the right things, the things that will set you up for success. You can choose to create a life that is worth living, worth waking up to, and worth sharing with the world around you. Today You can choose to start with a win.