Continuing on the theme experience vs. potential: What if we should think of being inexperienced and not knowing it all as an advantage. What would you do? I think that’s when we have the opportunity to see things as they could be rather than as they are.
Again, not saying experience and knowledge are bad things – they’re essential! Just trying to add some perspective here.
Research shows that potential outshines experience when deciding whom to hire, work with, invest in etc. Though, it seems really hard for us to understand. Look at how we market our businesses and ourselves – we talk about what we’ve done before, former clients, prices we’ve won, courses we’ve taken… No surprise we often get the same type of projects or employments over and over again. Time to adopt a new mindset! Start marketing your potential! Both for yourself and your business.
No, your experience is not unimportant – it will help build your credibility. It’s not just THE thing.
I write and talk a lot about Your Next Big Thing and the importance of kicking off the crucial expectations that is what your clients actually buy. Quite a few have said to me ”But I don’t know what my Next Big Thing is”. You know what, doesn’t matter. Your Next Big Thing is not necessarily an actual thing; it’s a mindset. Your Next Big Thing will pull you into your future.
All you have to do is to start.
You probably know this is what success really looks like (even though we tend to think it is a straight line…) You never know what the way towards your next big thing will look like. But one thing is for sure – nothing will happen unless you start. You might not be ”ready”. Guess what, you’ll never be – so start anyway. Adopt the mindset of beta and make progress as you go. That’s being in startup mode.
Ready, set…go.
When starting a business our resources are constrained and we often lack both information and time. When thinking about it further, it’s actually the same conditions we’re all facing in today’s professional life. With ever-changing markets and conditions we need to act fast and we need to act now even though we don’t know what’s the right thing to do. That’s why I think we all need to enter and stay in startup mode.
Making progress means taking a certain amount of risk. We need to push opportunities and try new things. Then it’s good to remember that risk is dynamic and situational. What once seemed too risky might now be perfectly ok.
Just sayin’… 😉
Committing to being in constant beta means committing to continuous growth. Always learning. Always exploring. Always expanding, breaking our limiting beliefs about what we can accomplish.
Time to launch yourself and your business in beta and set off on an exciting off-road experience. Only you decide where – and if – it will end.
All humans are entrepreneurs. That doesn’t mean everyone should start her or his own business. But we’re all designed to be creative, which is the basis of entrepreneurship. An entrepreneur has the ability to dream; to see things as they could be rather than as they are. An entrepreneur also turns the dream into action; because she/he knows that it’s action that changes things. I see entrepreneurs as Dreaming Doers. Needed both inside and outside organizations and much needed to create the future we want.
The key is to dream and do simultaneously.
As Robin Sharma puts it:
Dream big. Start small. Act now.
Last thing to learn from Sagrada Familia, the church in beta, at least for now. I think the architect, Gaudi, heard quite a few times that he was crazy. I think quite a few people told him this project was impossible. I think he had a bunch of critics… Nevertheless he proceeded. Step by step. And now, we can’t say anything else than success. Something to keep in mind when you get questioned. If you’re about to disrupt traditional ways of doing things, you WILL be called crazy. And that’s a good thing.
Yes, you have to work hard to be remarkable. But hard work doesn’t have to equal struggle. Hard work can be inspiring, fulfilling and fun!
The recipe: Make sure you love what you do (and put everything else on you to-don’t-list). Stay curious. Use your strengths. Keep exploring. Push opportunities. Always make progress. Think Beta.
Stay in Startup Mode!