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I got an entrepreneurship question for all of you all who want to be entrepreneurs or
who are entrepreneurs, and this one is about trusting the process when becoming an entrepreneur.
I got to say I always wear my Trust the Process shirt.
You can get one.
You can just click here if you want to get one.
You can order them and represent.
If you're not familiar with what it means to trust the process, I'm going to talk about
that a little bit in this video.
Jimmy says here.
He says, "Hi, John.
I'm pretty new to software development and have been teaching myself Java for the past—about
three months.
It's difficult but I enjoy and I am learning to trust the process in becoming a competent
programmer.
My question is how can I trust the process when it comes to developing entrepreneurial
skills?
Where can I begin and how do I know if I'm following the right path if I one day hope
to be a successful entrepreneur in the world of software development?"
This is actually a really good question and I say why is because, you know, it's a little
bit easier to trust the process in something like learning software development or juggling.
Just to give you a little bit of an idea of what I mean if you're not familiar, I have
a Trust the Process playlist.
You can check that out here if you want some more in-depth videos about trusting the process,
but I'll give you the quick and dirty here which is basically trusting the process means
this.
It essentially means that what you're going to do is you're going to divorce the results
from the process that gets you there.
You're not going to focus on results because you can't control results.
You can't directly control results, but you can indirectly control results by trusting
the process.
I always use the juggling example and I say like look, I guarantee you this.
If you lock yourself in a room and you take three balls and you try to juggle and you
mark on the white board every time that you give an attempt and you do it a thousand times,
before you hit a thousand, you will learn how to juggle.
That's just—like that—if you follow that process, if you trust that process, don't
even worry how good you're getting or any of the results.
Don't even focus on results.
Just say what I'm going to do is try to juggle one thousand times.
I'm going to count it up and I'm going to do it a thousand times.
You will get the results.
That's trusting the process.
With software development, that's pretty easy to do.
Well, not necessarily easy to do but it's a little bit easier to do than entrepreneurship
because you know that if you set a process for how you're going to learn how to code
in Java, if you're like, "Okay, I'm going to do whatever I'm"—there's a lot of different
processes you could create.
You could say I'm going to study Java two hours a day and build an application or I’m
going to build 10 applications.
By the time I'm done building 10 applications, I will know Java.
There's a lot of ways that you could come up with to come up with a good process for
learning software development.
If you want some more in-depth ways to do that, you can check out a course that I created
called 10 Steps to Learn Anything Quickly.
That basically shows you how to create your own process for doing that.
A lot of people have used that too to learn programming language and learn a whole bunch
of things.
With entrepreneurship, it's a little bit different because there's not necessarily a process
to follow like how you become a good entrepreneur.
How do you even know if you're on the right path?
It's more difficult, but it doesn’t mean that it's not possible.
What I would encourage you to do is to have the mindset.
I think a lot of people coming to entrepreneurship and they say, "All right.
The first business—whatever business I build or whatever entrepreneurship venture I do,
I need to hit out in the park.
This is it.
I need to make my Facebook.
I need to be Mark Zuckerberg.
I need to make my money."
That's the wrong approach because you're going to have a lot of failures and you're going
to learn automatically from it.
With entrepreneurship, I would say, "What is the process that you're trusting?
How do you trust the process.?"
You just have to know that if you keep on hustling and you keep on trying stuff, you
keep on learning to sell, you keep on learning how to market, you keep on trying to build
businesses that eventually you're going to get there.
Eventually, you're going to be successful.
I think Roveo, Angry Birds.
If I remember the story correctly like Angry Birds was like the 50th app that the person
or they put in the App Store.
Every one of those other apps was a business venture.
It was an entrepreneurialship—maybe I'm making this story up, but it's a good one
even if I am.
It was a entrepreneurialship venture that failed, but they learned something from it
and they knew that if they kept on going up to bat, they would eventually, boom, hit a
home run.
You got to get up to bat a lot of times as entrepreneur, and you're going to face a lot
of rejection, discouragement, all of these things.
As myself as an entrepreneur trusting the process, I had a lot of misses.
Okay, if you listen to my Career Story, I've got a playlist on my Career Story, you can
see my fault starts.
There were times when I was not ready to be an entrepreneur when I just screwed the pooch.
Basically, I completely messed up and I was lazy and I was dumb, and all of these things
and I learned from that.
I got to where I am today by doing that and by going through all those failures.
It can be discouraging, it can be difficult, but you got to remember.
Again, trusting the process, it's still the same thing.
You just have to realize as an entrepreneur that it's going to be a little bit bigger
kicks in the nuts.
As a programmer, trusting the process or learning to juggle, not a lot of bad stuff is going
to happen to you.
It's like you don't feel like you're getting the results, but that's fine.
You divert yourself from the results.
As an entrepreneur, you're going to get a lot of—you're going to be reminded of the
results a lot more often because you're putting some money.
You're putting a lot of time into this and it either works or doesn’t like you're either
making economic sense, you're actually making money or you're not making money.
You don't have enough money to pay the bills.
With that said, take small steps.
Don't put it all in one basket.
Do not try and build Facebook as your first entrepreneurial thing.
Sell a $5 e-book.
Create a couple of videos on YouTube and monetize them or start a YouTube channel.
Do small things.
The very first thing that I sold on the Internet ever as an entrepreneur was—it was a life
counter for Magic the Gathering that was on your Palm Pilot and it was $5.
All right.
It was $10 and I slashed it down to $5.
That got me a lot of experience.
I learned a lot from that experience and then I've sold different things and then pretty
soon, you know, I'm selling $300, $500 courses but it took some time to get up to that point.
Give yourself a lot of practice room.
Give yourself a lot of runway.
Don't worry about failure.
Again, it's all trusting the process.
Just know that if you keep doing it, if you keep trying to make money, if you keep trying
to be an entrepreneur, you're going to eventually get there.
It doesn’t mean that you don't need to like invest in your education and training and
things like that.
Ultimately, you will get those skills just like programming.
It's not different.
It seems like it's different to programming or juggling.
The only way that it's different is like I said—is that programming and juggling, when
you fail, you usually don't get kicked in the nut, but with entrepreneurship, yeah.
You're going to feel the pain maybe a little bit more.
Hey, that's part of the territory.
If you want to live at really steady life without this kind of roller coaster thing,
you probably shouldn't be an entrepreneur.
You probably just get some job at the post office or something like that.
That will probably be a pretty smooth, pretty mundane lifestyle, but the entrepreneurship
is always going to be wild like that.
All right.
I hope that answers your question.
Good luck.
Trust the process.
Like I said, you can get a shirt.
Just go to store@simpleprogrammer.com.
You can get your own Trust the Process shirt and definitely check out the playlist if you
haven't already.
Don't forget to click that Subscribe button and I'll guide you on the way as you're trusting
the process here.
All right.
I hope you found this useful and I will talk to you next time.
Tak