“Success is cooked in a messy kitchen.” – Dan Kennedy
First:
A big, happy welcome to everyone who joined us yesterday.
(we had several hundred former EGT members jump onboard in the last 24 hours)
I believe these emails will be the best 3-minute-per-day investment you make for your inner development.
And I can’t wait ’till you see what we’ve got planned for you…
Second:
I just set up a small, private YouTube channel where you can watch all the clips we share in these emails.
32 clips from last year’s retreat are now available, and many more from this year’s retreat will be posted soon.
Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the new episodes that will be dropping very soon.
Third:
Today’s lesson 🙂
We’re going simple and practical today, with a battle-tested principle that drives much of the success you see in the world.
That principle?
Speed.
When I woke up this morning, I wasn’t planning on launching the new channel.
First, I wanted to get everything just right:
Every video perfectly polished, with a beautiful channel graphic and fully-built website we could link to.
Then, I’d optimize our posting schedule to drop a new video every day or two so the algorithm would show us to more viewers.
I had a long list of tasks to complete before I ever planned on pressing “publish”…
…Just in case something (*gasp*) went wrong.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I even scheduled a full, 90 minute work block just to plan the launch of the YouTube channel.
After 13 years of online business, I should know better.
But perfectionism is a demon I still need to slay anew, each day — and the only blade that kills it is speed.
So this morning, when the time came to slowly, deliberately, work through the long list of tasks that would someday lead to the magnificent launch of our shiny new YouTube channel…
…I came to my senses and sliced that task list to shreds.
Then, in a streaking string of mouse clicks that took all of 45 seconds, I marked all 32 unpolished, unlisted clips in our channel as “Public,” uploaded a placeholder channel graphic (which I might just keep, it actually looks pretty cool), and wrote you this email to announce the new channel.
Now momentum is on our side.
And I’ll take momentum over perfection any day.
As I said in our DeepGame newsletter last week:
“The cure for procrastination is getting started.
I’m glad I finally took my own advice 🙂
I hope you do, too.
So…
Instead of waiting for the perfect camera, grab your iPhone and hit record.
Instead of waiting for the perfect meditation practice, sit down, close your eyes, and breathe for 20 minutes.
(that’s how I started)
Instead of waiting for the perfect, witty text message to send that girl you like, say “hey, how are you doing?” and let the conversation unfold.
In other words…
Don’t wait for conditions to be perfect, because they will never be perfect.
Just start.
– T
P.S. Don’t wait to subscribe, either.
