| FAILING FASTER, IN ORDER
TO SUCCEED FASTER!
Want to achieve success faster? You likely
need to FAIL faster!
You may be thinking: "Is Marcy CRAZY? Shouldn’t
I be SUCCEEDING faster, not FAILING faster?!"
 In
the ideal world, yes, you could succeed without failing.
In the real world in which you and I live, however,
no person can make a continuous series of perfectly
right decisions without making some wrong ones along
the way.
“Good judgment is the product of experience,
and experience is the product of bad judgment.”
Saying among backcountry skiiers.
For example, much of your good judgment in your
personal life may come from poor judgment you demonstrated
as a teen. 
Lots of my clients are perfectionists and
they like following rules. Both of those traits make
it hard to view failing as a key component to success.
Failure and success are intertwined.
One does not exist without the other.
You cannot make perfect decisions. You are human
and therefore imperfect.
That means you’re going to make some great
decisions, some mediocre decisions, and some poor
decisions.
The more quickly you decide which decisions are poor,
mediocre and great – the faster you can decide
which ones to stick with, which ones to tweak, and
which ones to abandon.
Fast and imperfect action will beat
slow and perfect action just about every time. Because
faster decision-making plus faster analysis of your
decision-making will lead you to better results than
paralysis by analysis will.
Here’s an example. Your goal
is to move from $0 (you’re just starting out)
to $10K in sales in 4 months. You have 3 possible
ways to start sales in your new company. All 3 strategies
sound good in theory and each of them has worked for
other people.
Here are two scenarios:
Scenario A. You spend a LOT of time debating
which of the 3 sales strategies is best. Given
that they’ve all worked for other people in
the past and seem feasible for you, you have no way
of deciding amongst them. It’s very important
for you to make the BEST possible decision, so you
keep going over the same pros and cons in your mind.
You “analyze” for 3 months, then in month
4, you pick one sales strategy and try it out.
Scenario B. Given that all 3 strategies
seem equally good, you decide to implement all 3 of
them right off. After one month, you realize
that one strategy is totally NOT working out and the
other 2 strategies have created moderate sales of
about $1K each.
You drop the loser strategy and focus on the 2 sales
strategies which gave you moderate returns. You analyze
them, realize that you can tweak each of them to make
them more effective, and re-start them. In month 2,
each one earns you $2K/month. You get busy with other
parts of your business and decide to just keep doing
these 2 strategies, without tweaking them any further.
Here’s how these strategies compared over
4 months:
| Time |
Sales for Scenario A |
Sales for Scenario B |
| Month 1 |
0 |
$2K |
| Month 2 |
0 |
$4K |
| Month 3 |
0 |
$4K |
| Month 4 |
$2K |
$4K |
| Total $ earned over 4 months
|
$2K |
$14K |
Scenario B earned money IMMEDIATELY, unlike
Scenario A. Over time it earned much MORE money than
did Scenario A.
- Scenario A included lots of analysis, mental
debate and self-questioning. And it generated very
little sales.
- Scenario B featured immediate action on all the
strategies and included time to change and improve
the mediocre ideas.
How does this apply to you and your business?
What kinds of results are you experiencing
in your business?
If your results are not what you want, then
consider: What issue do you need to make some decisions
about? What is your decision-making speed?
Quite likely, you can quickly get better results
just by making a decision NOW and allowing yourself
the luxury of being OK with that decision being bad,
mediocre, or great. When you have the confidence that
you can modify any decision and make it better, you’ll
be more relaxed about making decisions.
As a business-owner, you will be more successful
when you develop the habit of making MORE decisions,
AND allow time for tweaking and re-making them.
That’s one key ingredient for business success!
CALL TO ACTION
If you’ve been struggling with paralysis by
analysis for some time, then it’s time for an
experienced mentor and coach. Contact
me and we’ll easily set up your complimentary
Success Session, where we'll cover your goals, what's
getting the way, and how you can move into action,
and income, more easily. I'm happy to support your
business growth.
Testimonial
 "When
I started working with Marcy, I had a myriad
of limiting beliefs, lack of confidence and
fears of presentations in sales. Through our
work together, I have shed all those negatives
and have more clarity and confidence in my professional
life. Marcy is a great listener and provides
wonderful suggestions that make sense. I owe
much of my success in my most transformational
year to the direction, support and encouragement
that Marcy provided me!"
~ Nancy T. Ferrari, Radio Show and
Media Personality
www.nancyferrari.com, Orange
County, CA |
© 2012 Marcy Stahl
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Hi
there – Welcome back to my ezine! February and
March have been very busy. Most of my time was taken
up with being sick, new speaking engagements, and
my clients. Writing my ezine fell off my plate, as
I worked to keep the rest of my business moving smoothly.
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