Ep. 064: Progress, Not Perfection - a podcast by Shannon Mattern

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In episode 64, we talked about progress, not perfection and today I want to talk about what I mean by progress.

So, last night I was listening to a webinar with Pat Flynn of www.smartpassiveincome.com hosted by the email marketing service ConvertKit and it was all about email list building strategies.

And I’ve been at this for over 4 years so I really didn’t expect to learn anything new – I was really attending because I’ve been doing more and more webinars and I love to see how the pros are doing it.

So as an aside, I went into that webinar with my mind closed to learning something new – and that’s something I’m really trying to work on – to forget what I “know” and go into any new learning opportunity with an open mind.

Because while I didn’t learn any new TACTICS, I learned about the same tactics from a totally different perspective and with different nuances than what I had heard before,

But the most important thing that I heard on the webinar that was emphasized over and over was that they were presenting me with a menu, and I only get to order one thing. Just ONE THING.

From that list of list building tactics, I choose the one that sounds the best to ME, and I implement it, and then when I’m finished and I’ve seen it through, I can come back to the menu and choose another one.

If you’re anything like me, you want to try all the things and you want to do them all at once. Or maybe you get overwhelmed by all the things, and you get really murky on what to do first so you feel stuck, like you don’t know what decision to make so you put off making one.

And maybe you don’t even know you’re doing it – I know that sometimes I don’t realize WHY I’ve got something on my to-do list that I’m just not doing, and it’s because I don’t really have a clear plan for attacking it.

And when you’re doing a bunch of different things all at once, none of them really get your full effort and intention.

And I get it, it’s HARD when you’re side hustling because you have limited time, and you have to pack a bunch in when you can. But let me tell you from experience that when I have focused on just one thing, I’ve seen results.

So let me ask you this: What is the one thing that’s preventing you from moving forward in your business? What’s stopping you from moving forward? Is it that you don’t have a website? Okay, then your one thing is to go build your website. Yes, there are a lot of decisions that need to be made to complete that project, but when you go through my 5 Day Website Challenge I move you through the process pretty methodically so that you don’t have to figure that out.

Head on over to peptalksforsidehustlers.com/facebook to join the Facebook group and let me know what’s the ONE THING you need to do that’s going to open the door to the rest of the things? After you complete that thing, what’s the next thing? And if you’re feeling stuck, let’s talk about it!!

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