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Use the 85% Rule to invest in yourself



When it comes to starting a new business, too many of us will get overwhelmed thinking that we need to do everything “perfectly.” In fact, many will spin their tires doing things like:

Starting a blog
Creating a Facebook page
Buying ads on Google
Hiring skywriters to promote their business in the skies
Whatever

This is an easy way to get burned out, leading us to do nothing at all.

Your goal isn’t to start a blog or create a Facebook page with millions of likes — your goal is to FIND PAYING CLIENTS.

That’s why the easiest way to start freelancing is to take things one step at a time and not worry about getting it perfect.

I’d rather get it 85% right than do nothing at all.

Remember: it’s okay to make mistakes. The important thing is that you get started and learn from those mistakes.

The best way to get started is to begin investing in yourself. 

Now, one thing that you will find very common with people who have not taken the time to invest in themselves and learn how this stuff works, is they will create what’s called levels of abstraction.
Rather than just going directly to what they want, they will create all these different levels of abstraction — like making a Facebook page or a blog — that make them feel good, but that actually don’t require them to do the hard work.
So, they’ll spend six, nine, 12 months doing something frustrating and then give up because they never spent time buying a couple good books or buying a course.

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