Mindset of a successful Amazon seller part 2
So, I made a video called Successful Mindset Amazon Seller
and got a lot of feedback saying
Beau, please make more of this
Like, I wanna know more
And people got a lot of value out of it
So, this video, I'm making this for many reasons
I believe
I'm just enjoying the sunset right now in San Diego
But I'm making this video because 80-20, 90-10 rule
That I believe 90% of your success, 80% of your success
will be coming from what's up here
Not the information and not the knowledge
but actually the mindset on applying that information
So, the reason why I make YouTube videos
the reason why I have trainings and courses and have
you know, my book, is to give you
all the education that you need
But if you're messed up here, if you don't have the right mindset
you're not gonna have any success
So I wanna get into it right now and tell you a story about
There's actually a lady, let's go outside
So, I think it's good to go outside for this video
I'm not really a person to flash around stuff
But I think this is a good video to like, realize, okay
You know, people will get mad that I'm in a nice area
So I had a person actually the other day
comment on my Instagram video saying, Beau
You know, I used to like your content, I used to like your stuff
But now, I see that, you know, you just flash around things
and do all this stuff, and you know
I like to listen to people who've got a warehouse
who are grinding it, and are just working 30 hours a day
and just like, putting in a warehouse all these boxes
I'm like, that's not smart
That's not a smart mindset
So, you know, I'm in, La Jolla, California
one of the most, wealthiest neighborhoods
And the biggest mindset tip I wanna give today
is going to be about obstacles
and how to overcome them
So people see like, okay, beautiful things, nice things
but they don't understand the obstacles and challenges to get there
And practically, what you wanna do is reverse engineer your goals
So if you wanna make $100 a month on Amazon
what are the obstacles to go there?
A lot less than making $100,000 a month on Amazon
You know, I have a goal
I mean, I have some pretty big goals that I've done for myself
and I've achieved a lot of 'em
And every single time I've gotten bigger
or made, done more, typically, there's more obstacles happening
There's never been a month in my Amazon business, I would say
that I never had a certain obstacle
I was going for a run yesterday and
I relate all this to running
I think the reason why I've had some great success
in my Amazon business is due to the fact
that I went through, you know, some pretty hard stuff as a runner
So now, everything else is just really easy
So, going over obstacles
that's what I wanna talk about right here
It's not, 'cause
Just to be very honest with you
if you're selling on Amazon, if you are planning to sell on Amazon
you will get hit with obstacles, things will happen
But how you interact with that, how you push through it
is going to determine your success, and here's why
So if you take muscles as an example, right?
Like, you take biceps, you take your lungs
you take your heart
You do not get better by breaking it down
You don't get better by
What do you wanna call it? Actually, this is kinda bad lighting
But you don't get better by running faster or doing more
So, if you relate this to your Amazon business
If, you know, you don't get better by doing more
What you actually do, you get better off
Is, you do better by putting in hard work
Again, let's say for muscles
You get better by putting in hard work
And then your muscles break it down
then you get better from recovering
So let's think about that
And it works the same way for the brain
You know, if you wanna become smarter
you have to do things, you have to break it down
and you have to recover from that
So what a lot of people do in business and with their mind
is they don't realize that
They think that just hard work
doing more, doing this, doing this
and just getting more overwhelmed makes them better
It's the complete opposite
You gotta put in the hardwork, but you also have to recover from it
So what would be
With me, I always like to recover from obstacles
How I do that, I give myself some point of the day
Either, it could be me going to bed at night
or going for a run
I just think to myself on the hard stuff that's happening
because there will always be something challenging happening up
It could be Amazon, you know, makes it harder for you to get ungated
It could be with, you know, you're not finding the right products
So what I do to combat this, with any obstacles
is I take a step back and I ask myself
how can I overcome this? And that's the recovering phase
So, I would say, to have a successful mindset
And another part of this is being able to push through
'Cause like, it's kind of an interesting point because
if you know that, all you need to do is recover from the obstacles
and kinda
It's really funny, the phrase like
what doesn't kill you make you stronger
it's pretty much what it is
But you gotta recover from that
So, which is gonna make, you know, really
the process of going through those struggles easier
because you know there's a light at the end of the tunnel
So if you're dealing with crap, if you're dealing with issues
personal issues, whatever it may be
Just understand, this is good
Because if you never had anything hard to you
you're never gonna grow
Something you should be scared about
is that if you are operating your business
and it's just flatline, everything's easy
you're gonna get soft
That's what's gonna happen
You know, if you look at muscles, they actually
If they're not being used, they get smaller, they get weaker
So I had this happen in my Amazon business
I plateaued
I was like, what the heck is happening?
I was like, I plateaued
Like, what's going on?
It was back when I was living in Utah
Not like this
That's why I love living in places like here now
being able to enjoy this sunset
Because I lived in the middle of Utah
for like, 4 months with a mentor of mine in awful weather
But I just worked every single day, and I plateaued there
I started doing very well, I worked everyday
Got up to $100,000 a month, and I started to plateau
And what I realized is that I was doing the same thing
over and over again every single day
So, all the things that were challenging became easy to myself
So now, since everything was easy, I was never challenging my brain
And, so then, I technically got weaker and like
was making small mistakes
I mean, you'll see this, right?
If you start to do a task over and over and over again
Or like, let's say you're driving home, right?
And one day, you know, you're just not
Let's say you go down the same route
every single day from driving home
And then something weird happens
You may hit a curb, you may hit someone
or just something went crazy
It's because your brain is so used to everything going the same way
So that's why if I drive home
from anywhere I'm going, from the gym
I would always try to, you know, once a week or
go a different route
My father taught me that at a young age
Like, always try to go down a different route
and mix things up to just kinda get the brain active
So, anyway
Point 1: you gotta go through obstacles
But you gotta recover
and see how you can improve from those obstacles
Point 2 is, you gotta stay active
You gotta always be learning, you gotta always be educating yourself
You gotta always be pushing yourself through challenges
I actually had another person who got pretty angry at me
'cause they said, Beau, I feel like you are
expressing a different model for selling on Amazon
You're actually staying away from what you're true to
I'm like, it's actually the opposite
I've tried to disprove what I'm doing is right
You know, a really good story about this is actually
I used to share a list of like
suppliers inside my Amazon course, right?
And I tried to see if that worked or not, or didn't work
And I found out that it actually
Students are having more success
by teaching 'em on how to go find suppliers
So I was like, okay, constant improvement
So anyway, we can recap this video right now
Practically, go over this
Gotta go over obstacles, but you gotta recover from them
Gotta keep your brain active
And that's going to make you strong
That's going to make you extremely smart
And everything is just gonna be simple after that
Good example for this is, I had a student
Actually, he was sitting right there
at a small in-person event at my house
His name is Darrell, shoutout to Darrell
And he used to be like, a musician in jazz like, person
You know, he's pretty good at music
And he said he always got a lot of instant gratification in jazz
Because he would play a note and
you know, it would feel pretty cool
In an Amazon business, he couldn't find that at the start
With me, I get instant gratification
I think Amazon is literally fun
Like, I think, literally, finding products is just a blast
I don't know, maybe I'm kinda weird
I see like
For me, like, small little improvements in my business is like
this feels amazing
Some people, it's very overwhelming
Some people, it feels like a struggle
if they don't see money into their bank account
I had someone actually ask me on Instagram
Like, Beau, how can I go from like, nothing to getting
funds deposited on my account?
Like, that's a good question
So this guy Darrell, he was talking about
he was just struggling in his Amazon business
for literally, like 6 months or something
Like, a very long time
And it's because of the instant gratification thing
Then you start to realize, wow
Like, 'cause he was getting depressed, he was getting sad
He was like, he wanted to quit
'cause it didn't, he wasn't seeing the longer term picture of it
And then he was like, wait
there's ways in my Amazon business to be improving
every single day
Like, it doesn't literally have to like
You know, selling on Amazon is a simple business model
That's why I love it
That's why sometimes up here, it can mess with you because
if you don't have it up here
it's gonna seem complicated and overwhelming
and you're gonna like, call yourself stupid
And you're not
So, he realized that, okay, well me finding the right supplier
or getting the spreadsheet from them
or getting them to be on a conversation
or like, getting a certain account
that were getting to B2B and making small little increments
can occur some instant gratification
So if you're having, if you're struggling
with feeling like you can't keep moving and getting momentum
Like, try to find little wins every single day
Try to find little progressions that you can find
If you're like, okay, that's a success
So, that can help a lot
Let me know down in the comments what you think
On the next little mindset video
I'll be sharing a couple more about that
If you don't like it, let me know as well
But I think this is super important because
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You can have all the information in the world about selling on Amazon
and it's not gonna do you well
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