There's a lesson in pretty much everything if you look hard enough, and successful
business owners know this. They also know that setbacks are pretty inevitable part of
the journey, and they have the confidence to know that whatever setbacks safe face,
they can overcome them, because the more setbacks that you do face,
the easier it becomes to overcome them. Welcome to imperfect Action. I'm Steph
Taylor. For years, I read all the books, downloaded all the freebies,
and did all the courses, but it wasn't until I started taking imperfect
action that my business had its first million dollar year. Imperfect action is about
doing things before you're ready, prioritizing consistent action over perfect action, and moving
forward even when you're not sure you're doing it right. On this show,
you can expect mindset advice, actionable marketing tips and strategies to build a business
that brings you more profit, more freedom, and even more joy. Are
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or at the link in the show notes. Welcome to Imperfect Action. This
is episode seven hundred and nine. Today, I'm sharing five of the key
differences that I've noticed between successful business owners and struggling business owners. Now,
back when I first started my business, I always thought that there was some
kind of secret that successful business owners had figured out, some magic thing that
they were doing that the rest of us couldn't figure out, couldn't find,
weren't doing. And over the couple of years that I've been in business,
I've realized that the biggest difference between the ones who succeed and the ones who
don't is actually what's happening between the ears. Most of it is mindset related,
not the actual practical things that they are doing day to day. There's
not some magical Instagram algorithm hack that they figured out or some way that nobody
else is realized to sell more of their offers. They are doing things differently
mindset wise. Now, the first big difference I've noticed is that struggling business
owners tend to look for external validation that they're doing the right thing. They
want somebody else to tell them, hey, yeah, the decision you made
that's the right one, or the things that you're posting those are the right
things. Whereas the people who are successful business owners, they tend to trust
their own gut and their own intuition a little bit more. And this makes
sense, right when you're new to doing anything at all, of course,
you want to make sure that you're doing it right, okay, and you're
going to look to others for advice and tips and confirmation that you're doing the
right thing. But at a certain point you need to learn how to make
good decisions on your own. This is a crucial part of succeeding in business
is learning how to make good decisions, effective decisions. And if you are
always outsourcing your decisions to other people, then the business that you end up
building it might not look anything like the business that you truly want. It
might end up being somebody else's vision entirely. Now, part of this whole
process is learning to trust your own experience, your own intuition. And it
also means knowing what your vision for your business is, vision for your life
is and making decisions based on that, not based on a book that you
read, or a post that you saw or a podcast that you listen to.
Right now, I have a free workbook called Escape the messy middle,
and in there, I take you through a bunch of workbook exercises to help
you uncover your vision for your business and the things that are blocking you from
getting to there. At this point in time. To grab that workbook,
send me a DM on Instagram. I'm over there at Steph Taylor dot Co.
Send me the three letters EMM, and I will send you a link
to download that workbook instantly. All right. The second difference is struggling business
owners tend to worry about things that they can't control, whereas successful business owners
tend to focus more on the things that they can control. Worrying about the
things that you can't control is such a waste of your time and energy.
You can't control whether the Instagram algorithm shows your content to the right people.
You can't control whether anybody shows up for your webinar or not. You can't
control how many people will buy in your next launch. But you can influence
these outcomes with the actions that you can control, the actions that are within
your control, like doing audience research so that the content that you're creating resonates
with the right people, or writing a really awesome pre webinar sequenced so that
people are more enticed to attend or nailing your launch strategy so that more people
are likely to buy in your next launch. These are things that you can
control, and there are much better use of your time and your energy than
worrying about the things that might not happen anyway. Okay, Number three,
Struggling business owners need to know all of the steps and have it perfectly planned
out, whereas successful business owners just need to know the next step and the
end goal where they're going in the end. This podcast is called imperfect Action
for a reason. I believe that imperfect action is the secret source to success.
And if you ask anyone successful in business, in life, anywhere,
they will tell you they've taken a bunch of blind leaps and they've figured it
out along the way, and it's scary. Yeah, absolutely, But the
more imperfect action that you take, the easier it becomes. Your comfort zone
begins to expand and comes a lot more comfortable for you to figure those things
out, and you begin to realize that, actually, yeah, I can
figure it out as I go. I'm way more capable than I ever could
have imagined. Right Sean Puri, He talks about this awesome ab Z method
ABZ. If you're American, all you need to know is A where am
I now? Z, where am I going? And B what do I
need to do next? A, B Z So much less overwhelming to look
at it this way, rather than to list out every single thing you need
to do, or have all of the different moving parts spinning around in your
head overwhelming you because you just don't know where to begin. Where are you
now, what do you do next? And where are you going? That's
all you need to know. Number four. Struggling business owners tend to prioritize
the short term, whereas successful business owners tend to prioritize the longer term.
The things that create long term growth don't usually bring you wins in the short
For example, prioritizing creating your online course is gonna mean that maybe you have
to say no to one extra client in the short term, which means less
revenue in the short term. But in the long term, you've now built
a new revenue generating asset. You can now go and sell that online course,
and that's going to bring income into your business. Successful business owners know
that they have to make these sacrifices in the short term to achieve that longer
term vision, and they're okay with this because they have their eye on the
price. They know what they're working towards, and they're not going to delay
that or give up on that for a short term win. And they're not
worrying about how many likes their Instagram posts got the other day or how many
people unsubscribed from their latest email, because they're too busy laying the foundations for
the business that they want five years from now, not the little wins that
they want tomorrow, and then last, but not least number five. Unsuccessful
business owners treat setbacks as a sign that they should give up, whereas successful
business owners treat setbacks as a lesson in disguise. Let's say that you've spent
all of this time creating an online course and nobody bought it. Now you
could say, oh, it's a failure, nobody wants it. This sucks,
and you could give up, or you could get curious and you could
find out why nobody bought it, make some tweaks with the insights that you
get from that, and then try again. And there's a lesson in pretty
much everything if you look hard enough. And successful business owners know this,
they also know that setbacks are pretty inevitable part of the journey, and they
have the confidence to know that whatever setbacks they face, they can overcome them.
Because the more setbacks that you do face, the easier it becomes to
overcome them. The more resilient you get, the more grit tenacity, whatever
you want to call it, you begin to develop, and you build that
self confidence because you know, if I've overcome that, well, I can
overcome this as well. Okay, so there you have it. Five differences
between struggling business owners and successful business owners. Now, if you are not
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