Yes, New Implementation and Risk Is Terrifying But the Alternative Is Worse
Published: Thu, 03/02/17
If you were to walk into my main bathroom right now, first your feet would stick to the cement. You'd see no tile. The border has been ripped up.
Basically, it pure trashy looking.
But I'm okay with that - temporarily.
As with my business, sometimes when I'm renovating or improving things, I have to make a big old mess first. I have to try things, screw things up, get disappointed and try again.
That's what I'm doing with my bathroom flooring. It's the same thing I do with website creation or content or sales copy.
The worst part is learning something new and pumping myself up to think, "You can DO this, Tiffany!"
I watch videos on how to prep the floor and install the flooring I want.
I hear myself say, "Oh what are you getting into? Other people could do this SO much better than you!"
But like many of you who don't have funds to outsource, I'm not willing to fork over $12k to refloor my home. Not right now anyway. I will take the ugly DIY route because guess what?
Even my ugliest efforts will be 10 times better than what's in there now. And your worst efforts of selling things will be ten times better than not trying at all, too. That's the WORST thing that could happen - stagnancy due to fear.
And when I install this new flooring - if I mess it up, oh well! At least I tried. I can fix it later.
I see many of you sitting on the sidelines waiting until you think you're ready for something. Here I am rolling up my sleeves and jumping in, willing to make a fool of myself.
And it's not just with home renovation. I did it with webinars (I CRIED on my first webinar - and was mortified, but everyone emailed me loving how real I was). I was disgusted with how I looked on video blogs, but oh well! I did it anyway and it helped me gain a following because people said it felt like they were sitting across from me at a coffee shop.
With my Kindle fiction branch? I didn't know a THING about the genre I went into. I started with historical, clean, romantic, western fiction (that's a mouthful). I basically glanced at a few "Look Inside" things on Amazon of competitors and went for it. Made enough to cover my mortgage!
Now? I'm pursuing contemporary women's domestic fiction (just real life type stories where life's going along well, then BOOM - something happens like a divorce, death, job loss, etc.) and the character has to recover. At first, I was so worried thinking I had to make SURE I did it like everyone else.
No.
No, that's not my style. I will write like I want to write and let my audience find me. I won't try to twist myself into something I don't enjoy just to fit someone else's expectations - there's no fun in that.
Okay I'm off to pursue my dream. Are you?
Don't forget about Barb's little cheap cheat sheet on Amazon News Trends here:
https://warriorplus.com/o2/a/z4gs4/0
Also, download your FREE copy of Ray Edwards' The $2 Billion Sales Letter here:
https://hw112.isrefer.com/go/salesletterebook/a103
I'd love to see more of what THAT talks about in the copy we see in our industry.
Tiff ;)
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