Imagine: Perfectionism can hide fear of failure? Personal Coach
Earlier, I was on a mentoring call with my client Jeff. Jeff is using digital marketing tools to break into the Asian market with his Gig small business.
He asked me, “Warren, why aren’t my Facebook ads converting well in Asia?” After showing his ads to me I could see they were focused on cultures that favor individualistic behavior.
What do I mean? Look at this little table I’ve put together.
You see, Jeff was creating ad content that was familiar to him and his culture in The USA. He was focusing on what the customer could get and not how the customer could help her or his family.
Why did he do that? He was trying to make it perfect and his culture was comfortable (i.e. he was afraid of failure).
DEFINITION: Giggers – those who have started their own Gig to live the New Gig Economy Lifestyle.
As Suze Orman says, can you? More later.
How do you rate? How do you channel your frustration into power?
Remember…
Quiz yourself at this end of this blog to see how you fair?
Doc Warren Lifestyle Coach here…
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With my personal coach and mentor clients, and in classes where I teach a How to Become a Life Coach Certification course, we channel frustration into power.
Giggers, channel your frustration into power. As The New Rich are effective Entrepreneurs, they have learned to channel frustration into power for experiencing optimal lifestyles.
Today we are aligning our Gigger Success Skill #7: Channel Frustration into Power with Gig Business Success Step-1: Use Digital Marketing.
The 5 Steps so you can build your Gig business to the next level and experience your optimal income.
| Step-1: Use inexpensive digital marketing. | (Yes, for local small businesses, you can “set it and forget it” to get your BIG DATA too.) |
| Step-2: Know your CLAN and build them up. | (Get to KNOW THEM WELL.) |
| Step-3: Automate and outsource to streamline processes to reduce wasted activity and space. | (Think Disney or McDonald’s.) |
| Step-4: Scale your business globally. | (E.g. A local bakery can sell an online eBook with recipes and Ideas for Entertaining.) |
| Step-5: Enjoy your Gig business optimal freedom lifestyle. | (Your goal is a 4-Hour Work Week.) |
Being perfect is another way we avoid being uncomfortable. If you can overcome ‘perfect’ it conquers fears of failing, replaces it with more fulfillment, freedom, and income…
Why do so many hop into a Gig small business, full of good intentions, but they don’t do anything with what they learn?
While I do get the “discomfort” of trying out new things… Oftentimes, it’s simply fear of failure being placed in the wrong spots.
For example, many hard-working, smart and savvy people may let fear get in the way of them running their first Facebook Ad. Or to send out their first marketing related email, or to put on a webinar and make an offer.
But here’s the thing…
Even a very IMPERFECT ad, email, or webinar can get you to a good profit and lifestyle. Imperfect actions is what drives results.
Just my thoughts here, but it could be more effective if we view what we are doing as “versions”? (Sort of like Apple, FB, Microsoft, and just about every other business does.)
This way you can get something out the door, but it doesn’t have to be perfect. It’s Version 1.0. If version 1.0 blows up, that’s fine. But more than likely…
You’ll start getting leads and sales, and you can always improve to 2.0 later on if you’d like. If you can just DO IT… with massive imperfect action, get feedback, change direction, and the payoff can be very big for you.
If you’re going down the street and you’re going the wrong way, remember – God permits U-turns. Suze Orman
All the Best,
Warren Linger
Channel Frustration into Power. Exercise #9:
As a Gigger in the global Gig economy, how can you change perfect to good enough to channel frustrations into power to build your Gig business to the next level?
Look at these examples where Giggers say they changed perfect to good enough and channelled frustrations into power and found ways to overcome them to feel confident and build their Gig business to support their customer clans.
- I was frustrated not knowing my customers needs, so I’ve automated so I get regular feedback and analytics
- I’ve found I was frustrated trying to automate, so I hired a mentor to help me see what’s next
- I posted a webinar but was frustrated not knowing what worked and what didn’t, so learned to use analytics and asked my clan for feedback
Write 3 frustrations you could change perfect to good enough to turn into unstoppable power and create your flow systems to have time to feel fully engaged developing yourself in your Gig and for your customer clan.
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Look at your list and attack 1 (only one at a time but do try a new one every month) idea to apply this week:
- Write your your idea where you could channel frustration to power.
- List steps you see to overcome (e.g. digital media) to see opportunities and values for your clan.
- Give yourself a metric to measure progress. (e.g. I will set a webinar for my customer clan feedback and learn from them when they want.)
- Reward yourself after you have completed your steps to channel frustrations into unstoppable power.
Debrief: The point here is to get over your own “NO, I can’t,” response and develop yourself so you can have your business success and your optimal lifestyle.
If you are looking at this exercise and saying, “this feels awkward,” that is good. The important part is you will get used to it, as your life, family, and business depend on it.
By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent. Mark Zuckerberg
NOTE: If you don’t learn to channel frustration into power, you may soon join the 80% of small businesses that fail within the first 5 years!
PS: Next time you will learn another step to your Gigger success as you channel frustration into power. If you would like more developing your Gig business to the next level and living your optimal lifestyle, email me at drwarren@cict.co.
Hope this helps.
Doc Warren Linger
@DrWarrenLINGER
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Engagement background of Optimal Engagement Lifestyle
As a trainer and university lecturer in the USA, I had great success in my coaching, training, and classrooms by engaging my learners in ways I had learned from my Dale Carnegie Instructor Training. (optimal engagement)
After earning my Doctoral Degree researching engaging instruction in adult education and training and development, I started a training business in Hong Kong.
But something was wrong, I was struggling in this new culture (I’m a cattle rancher’s son from Colorado, USA) to find ways to inspire and motivate my coachees and students in Hong Kong.
With my coachees and in the classroom, I preferred having clients engage in learning activities instead of just talking. This is especially effective to keep clients engaged between coaching calls.
I struggled through trying several paper worksheets and workbooks to guide students, but I wasn’t getting the results I wanted. (junk engagement)
When the smart phone with the ability to search the internet came along, I could see my clients were curating (i.e. searching, finding, collecting, commenting, changing, remixing, and sharing.)
I thought, “Why not do that for learning?”, so I started asking them to answer questions, interact with information and colleagues, and go find examples of the learning content using their mobile devices.
eWorkbook development and success
I began searching for possibilities and I struggled testing several apps, until we created best practices using eWorkbooks, and after testing them, began to use eWorkbooks as my clients always had their devices with them.
Then we used eWorkbooks (Google Forms with the training slides as well as interactive questions, curating links and tasks, example images and videos, etc.) This became powerful for my coaching clients as they were able to share ideas and get the benefits of social learning even though they were not in the training course or classroom.
My clients [Engaging Screenagers] completed eWorkbooks using their mobile devices as they were learning interactively while, at the same time, they were developing habits of learning with their devices (optimal engagement) instead of killing time with them. (junk engagement)
Students used eWorkbooks to while I lead the discussion and guided them, and after they submitted their answers, they would get their responses sent to their inbox so they could review their learning Moments of Growth. (optimal engagement)
Because the students’ responses from eWorkbooks go right into a spreadsheet in real-time, as the teacher I can monitor what students are doing to give them guidance in the moment, as well as track their learning develop over time.
Since those early days, I’ve had great luck supporting my coaching clients and entrepreneur friends use Google forms for 360° reviews for evaluations as well as use eBrochures and eMenus to test new ideas and actively engage and actively interact with customers.
All client info has been scrubbed of identifying information unless they have given me specific, written permission to quote them.
*Entrepreneurial Foundation>Success Skills adapted from World Life Skills Expert, Jill Raiguel’s awesome book, “The Next Step,” (1991) Amethyst Books, New York.
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