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082 - Vital Tips for Entrepreneurs

Hello there Kevin here with another episode of the feel-good English podcast. The only podcast on planet earth that is helping you become more fluent in English and more fluency in life.

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Today I’m going to give you some key lessons on a book about entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship. That’s a big fun word right? And even if you’re not an entrepreneur lessons from this book can help you in life in general and especially with learning a new skill like English.

These lessons I’m going to talk about come from a book called “Rework”. This book is by a couple of authors and their names are Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. The lessons here are great.

They could be great if you’re thinking about starting a business, starting something online and like I said if you are trying to learn something new. Maybe you need a little more motivation, some tips and tools on how to be more productive in what you’re doing and these lessons I think it can help you do that.

Before I get into the lessons just to remind you can get my free sevenpart audio course on the book the seven Habits of Highly Effective People at feelgoodenglish.com, so go to feelgoodEnglish.com after the episode to download the audio course.

Now without further delay, let’s get into these lessons on entrepreneurship in today’s episode of the feel-good English podcasts.

A big enemy of productivity is perfectionism. meaning if you are trying to be productive trying to get things done, trying to make progress and whatever it is you’re doing something that can slow you down and inhibit your productivity is perfectionism. Perfectionism gets in the way of productivity. Gets in the way is to obstruct to be an obstacle. So don’t let perfectionism get in the way of productivity.

An example, let’s say you want to start a blog. You want to write about your travels and you have been traveling a lot and you want to write about this so people can learn what you’ve learned on your big adventures. A common way that people go about doing this is to create the blog and to spend hours and weeks and maybe even months creating the blog itself and designing the blog, make it look pretty, putting your photos of where you’ve traveled, putting photos of yourself adding little colors here and there, believe me I know exactly how this goes because I have done the same thing. So you spend a lot of time developing the blog itself, and it becomes very tiring. But it even become discouraging you’re like wow this is a lot of work. Well the truth is after all of this time you’ve spent designing your blog then you finally write a blog post nobody or maybe just a few people will actually see that blog post. your mother, your girlfriend or boyfriend and maybe the person standing behind you while you’re writing that blog post and they didn’t even want to see it, they just happened to look over your shoulder and they saw it.

Anyway, I am joking about that. But that’s not being very productive.

What you want is you want people to see your blog post. So trying to get your design and everything perfect is kind of the wrong approach.

What would be more motivating? If you’re starting a blog would be more motivating is for people to actually read it. So a lot of people see it, comment on it that would be more motivating right? So finding ways to find the maximum effectiveness of what you’re doing with the minimal effort is what’s going to keep you going. You could call these quick wins, a quick win.

Instead of spending 50 hours designing a blog. What if you spent 10 or even 20 hours writing the most informative blog post you could come up with. To come up with is to create. You spend all your time on the actual content itself. All the tips, all the insights, all the lessons you’ve learned, putting all that time into the blog post and then publishing the blog post on a site like medium, medium.com. Medium.com is a website where people post their own writings and you can search topics and subjects and there are a lot of people that go to that website already. So you write something very high-quality, put some good search terms in there. Some nice photos. people will find the blog post on medium.com, comments, you’ll see how many people have viewed it and if it’s really, really high quality people will share it.

Spending a week on a blog post and getting let’s say a hundred people to read your blog post, would be a lot more motivating than wasting all this time in your room trying to design a blog that looks pretty, that most people won’t even ever see. Very clear example of why deciding where the maximum effectiveness should be spent and how you can get to a point where you get the quickest feedback, and the quickest validation, meaning people are actually seeing what you’re writing and enjoying your blog post. That would be considered a quick win, which will give you the energy and motivation, and the reason, to keep going.

Because you want more and more people to read what you’re writing.

So then you spend another week writing a great blog post and people read that, and that’s how you would continue to keep putting in the time and the energy into something that you wanted to grow, with quick wins.

The next lesson here from the book is about not overplanning. And staying agile by making quick and flexible decisions. Agile is to be able to move quickly, flexible like an animal, like a deer something like that.

It is very agile. It’s able to move and to change course to change directions very quickly. it’s all about over analyzing and over-analyzing and over planning can be a big time-waster and prevent us from being productive from getting results and often when we try to predict what’s going to happen and we plan and try to think about every single aspect of a business or whatever we’re trying to do. Often we’re just guessing anyway and things turn out to be quite different. Turn out is a phrasal verb, “turn out” means to, well in this case turns out means to happen, to end with a certain result. So it turns out incorrect. So usually you guess you try to guess exactly what’s going to happen and of course there are some sort of market research and all those types of technical things that people can do. but the point is to make decisions about where you’re going, where you’re wanting to move quickly there’s an expression here wing it, like wings like a bird. We use the expression to wing it, means to do something spontaneously and to do it without thinking too much about it.

There’s another episode I did, episode number 21 on a book called “Decisive”. This literally gives you tools and strategies that you can use to make decisions more effectively and quicker. I would really recommend the book“Decisive”. Go check out episode 21 . And there’s something else called “failing forward”. I’ve talked about this before, failing forward is the idea that by acting in by failing through your actions because you don’t know exactly what to do.

you’re actually going to learn a lot quicker to see progress and to become a lot better at what you’re doing by just simply acting winging it and learning from your mistakes and learning from the results that happen. So how about an example?

So let’s say you wanted to start a YouTube channel, videos about something you know a lot about. Whatever that may be, cooking, maybe cooking. So you know there’s thousands of channels on cooking. There’s a lot of people doing this already. First of all, even though there are a lot of people doing videos on cooking, there are many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many more people not doing cooking videos? So we often spend so much time thinking about exactly how we want to channel what we want to be like, what we want the artwork to be like, the music, all these different things, we spend months thinking about it but we never actually get online and when we do get online and we do start posting things we often find out it’s not even what people are interested in, or it’s not what we want to keep doing anyway.

Another approach taught in this book would just be to make a quick decision do it and see what happens. Learn from the results. You could literally publish videos in this whole process of your publishing videos could be the actual process of you learning about what you want to do with your cooking videos and see what works, seeing what’s fun for you, seeing what the audience might like.

So you’re learning by, publishing. Making a quick decision, winging it, put some content out there and seeing how it goes.

Kind of what I did with my whole journey here online. I actually started writing blog posts, making YouTube videos for another website I had called Ingles Ninja and I was making videos and I did that for some months, had some fun with it, made some funny videos on YouTube there. But over time I started to realize for me that’s not really what I wanted to do. I decided for me I wanted to do something a little more focused on the content as opposed to the whole visual appeal of the videos and me speaking and the funny things I would do on camera. I thought podcasts are what I listen to a lot of the time, when I’m listening to a podcast I really am able to focus on the words more deeply as opposed to the video, where I might be looking at the person speaking and checking out the person on camera. To check out is to kind of look deeply at so checking out whoever’s talking focusing more on the speaker, the presenter than the actual words that are coming out of that. So through doing YouTube videos and learning that, that’s not exactly what I want to do with my business. I decided to do a podcast which is now this podcast. So I can sit in my house speaking into a microphone with my shirt off and my hair messy and nobody even knows because you’re paying attention to the words.

So not over analyzing, staying agile, making quick and flexible decisions and winging it. Taking quick action is the key to progress and productivity.

I did say that these lessons could be applied to English learners as well. And how could that be? Well let me connect these lessons for you. If you are here as an English Learner and this is your main intention. So the first one we talked about quick wins and quick wins meaning setting goals that are very short-term that you can quickly achieve. So let’s say I want to be fluent in a year, in two years, that is not a quick win. After some months you won’t be fluent, you’ll get discouraged and you might stop and lose the motivation. Changing your mindset setting up very quick goals that you can achieve. A quick win would be I want to have two classes a week in English. That’s a quick win, or this week I want to learn 10 phrasal verbs and then you’ll learn ten phrasal verbs you use them correctly you feel good about it, that’s a quick win, and then you can keep moving forward. From feeling the accomplishment and from knowing that you achieved your short-term goal, you feel good about yourself. You’ll get that stimulation to continue going.

So think of some, think of some short-term English goals that you could set up. Could be weekly, could even be daily that aren’t difficult, aren’t that difficult to achieve and set up some quick wins for yourself.

Now the second part, not over analyzing, not over planning this happens all the time. People plan for a future when they will actually start getting serious about English. in the future I will do this and I will do that and I will have the perfect course and I will have the money to spend on the perfect teacher, the perfect course and I’ll save up money and next year I’ll go to the US. However until that time I’m not going to do anything. Because going online right now and watching a video or listening to a podcast that’s not perfect, that’s not part of your perfect English plan.

Many times I’ve seen students just simply not do anything with English because they’re waiting for what they think is the perfect way to improve. They are waiting until they find that wonderful awesome online course with the 20% discount which starts in two months until then they do nothing. That’s not being flexible. You have the power of the Internet, and if you’re listening to this you have the Internet.

Use this, be agile, be able to change course, change directions and be flexible with your decisions. So if there is a course in two months from now, with a 20% discount with a pretty teacher that you like, great! Do that. But don’t wait for that. Do something right now, start right now!

Do some listening, do some reading, and do whatever it takes to improve today. Fail forward, make quick decisions, make quick mistakes and learn from that. Don’t wait for the perfect plan to fall in your lap.

And that’ll do it for today’s episode. “Rework”, an awesome book especially if you are trying to start a small business or if you have a small business or even if you have a bigger business or even if you’re just trying to do something new, I would suggest checking out that book. You can find details of that book on my website

feelgoodEnglish.com/rework. Learn how you can download the audiobook for free.

Now what you do? Listen to this episode a few times. Repetition is key with English improvement, and also make sure you take action. If this is important these lessons are lessons that can be integrated into your life, make sure you take action steps to actually make them work.

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Until next time be a badass and speaking of badass, how about a badass joke?

I went to find some camouflage pants the other day. But I couldn’t find any.

Talk to you soon.