Jake Anderson - "You don't need to put all these barriers in front of you."

tga tips from podcast guests Mar 08, 2023
 

Insight and inspiration for flying higher in the difference only you can make from guests who have appeared on Creative on Purpose Live.

This week’s wisdom comes from a conversation with Jake Anderson, founder of Build with Jake.

Tune into the entire conversation here.

[JAKE] Pursuing excellence is really the idea here when it comes to taking action on something.

I have found a lot of value in operating in a feedback loop.

A lot of people, and I've made this mistake plenty of times, so I will raise my hand as guilty as charged, but when you're starting a new endeavor, a new business, you have this perspective of, "I've got to have a logo" and "I've got to have the website." Everything's got to be there and done before I can even go and serve anybody.

You don't need to put all these barriers in front of you to just start taking action.

Take action and keep yourself in that state of action and operate through a feedback loop. Go take a little bit of action. Play some soft offense. Get feedback. And let that tell you what the next one or two things that you need to do.

You don't have to overbuild.

Scott's actually helped me with this recently because I was, you know, I thought, as I said, I've fallen into this trap sometimes, and sometimes you need a good coach like Scott to remind you that, you know, "Hey, like I think right now you look like you're ready right now. Why do you need to wait? Why do you need to put things off?"

So, I would just remind anybody that is looking to take that first step to just take the step and remember that it's okay. Everything doesn't have to be done.

Build with your community. Build with your people. Let them be part of the process, and things will evolve as they should.

A lot of times when you do it that way, you'll look back six months and go, "Wow. I could have never conceived that this is what it would look like back when I started." But that's because you got your people involved in the process. That would be my piece of advice.

[SCOTT] I really appreciate that, Jake. Learning that does not lead to action is useless.

If you build out loud and in public in a community, then you'll get the feedback and the insight, and the inspiration you need to iterate more quickly and build something bigger and stronger.

As I was sharing with Jake when he was overthinking his thing, focus on what's essential and learn how to do that effortlessly before you add any complexity.

Jake just delivered a powerful nudge to take intentional action. What step are you taking today to show up fully for those you seek to serve and do the real work?


Scott Perry, Encore Life Coach at Creative on Purpose

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