Think “How” Not “If”

I signed up for Frank Kern’s List Control course a couple of days ago. I should be feeling excited but I’m concerned that it will dilute my focus on the stuff I’ll be working on with Ed. However, it’s not clear yet how the mentoring will actually pan out so it’s difficult to judge. On the face of it, market leadership, which is what I will be working on with Ed and building a list should go well together.  However, I don’t know whether Ed and Frank’s strategies will conflict or not.

Signing up for something new whilst working on another project hasn’t worked for me in the past but I’m hoping that the two things will compliment each other this time.

As is always the case with such dilemmas it’s not the facts of the situation that’s important so much as the stories we tell ourselves about it.

If I choose to focus on this as a mistake, as a repetition of past behaviour that had a negative consequence in the past and is likely to do the same now, then that will be the expereince I create. However, if I’m willing to experiment and stay open to the possibility that these two things will work well together then I’m not writing off an opportunity before it’s even happened.

A better way of looking at it is not so much “will these two things work together” but “how can I make them both work for me such that the combined result is greater than either would be on their own”?

Asking “how” rather than “if” opens up your creativity and allows you to experiment.And then based on real results, rather than imaginings, you can make adjustments, one of which in this case, might be to leave List Control until the mentoring is more established, one might be to get a refund, one might be to take the steps more slowly. But whatever I decide to do,  it will be based on current experience rather than the past.

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