Hey, what's up? It's derek halpern its
2018 day two how many people failed their New Year's resolutions already
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Are you gonna do something new this year right? No. I am I want some new video show that sound tickle to the $30.00 one
I watched a new piece of software called zippy engage and I also
Launched a new health product line with my friend Vani
Yes, I couldn't be more excited
So I started telling everyone about what I was doing and then people started giving me their opinions
Derrick really a daily video. Are you sure?
That's a lot of work what you're partnering with food babe, seriously
I'm concerned when you start something new people always
express concern I'm concerned
But they aren't actually concerned about you
They're concerned about how your new endeavor will change your
Relationship with them I remember when I first started my first online business everyone came out of the woodwork
Uh Derrick really are you sure I'm concerned
Well, that's what people do they express concern because you're doing something new and they don't
Know how this new thing is going to change your life and most
Importantly how this new life change is going to change their life
Especially if it's a close relative or loved one
This is just what happens when I told people that I was going to do a daily video
so they kept saying
Business people don't have that much time to watch a daily video show there's no way this is gonna work
And I'm just sitting here thinking to myself like there's almost no one doing a daily video
So there's a couple of people and they're doing okay, but I think I can do it better a few years ago
no one listen to podcasts and now everyone since the
Podcasts when I had my podcast socialtriggers insider is one of the top business podcasts in the world
Thing is is that it was getting like 20,000 downloads in episode
And it wasn't worth it for me to do that now podcasts have blown up
I think video is going to blow up in 2018 and that's why I'm committing to doing these daily videos
But here's the deal like I said no matter what you're trying to start people are gonna come out of the woodwork
And they're gonna try to give you advice they're gonna pretend like they care
They're gonna pretend like their concern about you, but in reality they're concerned about themselves
They're concerned about change
Change scares people. They're not actually concerned about whether or not you're pursuing the right thing for you
They're concerned about how the new thing that you're pursuing is going to affect them
I'm concerned how to get out of my office
There's kind of driving me crazy the heat kept going on and messing up the sound here's the bottom line
Whenever you try to do something new people are going to be concerned
Actually one of my favorite quotes comes from this guy howard h aiken. He's the primary engineer behind
ibm's computer harvard mark 1
And he said don't ever worry about people stealing your idea because if it's original
You're gonna have to shove it down
People's throats if you have an idea whether it's original or not if it's something that you have never done before
What's gonna happen is this people are gonna express concern concern?
It's because they're not gonna see the same things that you see they're not gonna see the same potential that you see with your
Ideas and that's why I'm sharing this with you today as you know. I'm starting this daily video and everyone is concerned
How are you gonna come up with content? How are you gonna get the videos done, and it's just like slow down
I haven't got that far. I got this idea
I think it's a good idea wouldn't move forward with it as I also told you I'm starting a health product loud my friend Vani
And people are very concerned about that too, but you know what it feels right take a look
Hey, what's up? We're on doing the product shoot here with my new business partner Bonnie
You got all this food we have Melanie over there. She's doing all this
and then take pictures
You have we have mark who's making me hold a camera. You know one of the things
I don't get is that I have a video guy, but why do I have a camera in my hand?
Yeah, so we've got this new product that we released in January and Bonnie over here hasn't even seen the bottle yet and Melanie is
Designing this this shoot here
One of the things that I'm most excited about with this particular endeavor this idea of doing daily videos
I can show you cool stuff. Just like that. I want to share some grants with you
I want to share some tips with you. I want to walk you through behind the scenes of actually building a real business
I don't want to create this this tailored
Experience to make you feel like I'm always just on the beach all the time
I want to show you what it's like to actually build a real
Company now the reason why I'm sharing this video is because I know that you want to do something new in
2018 maybe you want to go on a new diet
Maybe you want to start exercising maybe you want to try 90 days no alcohol
Maybe you want to start a new company, maybe you want to launch a new product
It doesn't matter you wonder what happens if you see the vision and you believe there's the potential
There will be people who try to tell you not to do it
Don't listen to them you should never take advice from
People who are not your customers don't take advice from people who are not your audience
They're concerned, but their opinion doesn't matter one of the things
I like to say is this when people have an idea for a business or a new product
Or a sales page or an ad whatever doesn't matter?
They always like to ask their friends or colleagues for advice to see what they think
But here's a deal if your friends or colleagues aren't potential customers if they're not the audience it doesn't matter what they think
The only thing that matters is the opinion of your audience now, I know I'm getting fired up
but I'm getting fired up because I keep having all these people just showering me with opinions and
Like I said earlier
I kind of want to tell them to go Derek really so I hope you got some big plans for this year
And I hope that
You won't take some of the expressed concern from your friends and colleagues to heart
And I want to see what you can build this year leave a comment below this video and let me know what you've got planned
Put a link in there do whatever you want to do. I want to see what you got coming up. I'm
Genuinely curious and then also if you like these new daily videos make sure you hit the like button and then subscribe to my channel
I'll see you in the next video