Often when we’re trying to solve a problem, such as wondering why we aren’t growing as fast as we should, we tend to try to find quick solutions where we just throw money at it and hope the problem fixes itself. What got me thinking about this is that there was a person advising another on what he could potentially do, and as you would imagine, he recommended all these services the person could actually buy — people he could actually train with, per se, for example motivational speakers and consultants. It didn’t seem like they actually had a real idea of what exactly the person needed, and I think that’s important to remember because it’s so easy to just look at how much money you have saved up and think, okay, it’s just a few hundred dollars here and there, let’s try it, if it works then great. But sooner than you realize, that savings just starts to drain and you’re not actually progressing, which makes you think: if you have an issue you’re trying to solve, just throwing money at it isn’t the best way to go.
I always find that if you can’t really figure out what you need exactly, then you should actually research what other people are doing and being successful with. There are so many resources nowadays. For example, you can go online, read various articles, go to a site like YouTube, and kind of study what people are doing. Then, with that, you could actually have a plan. If what you find seems to be the common denominator is that people have certain connections with certain people, then that means you don’t necessarily have to spend thousands of dollars — you just have to figure out a way to actually connect with those people or organizations, versus, for example, buying some type of course that’s two thousand dollars and hoping it’ll magically fix everything.
Because many times when it comes to a business scenario, there is no one right way, as they say. Someone could just get lucky and be at the right place at the right time. Another person could literally be lacking a particular skill where they need to study it, but you need to kind of understand what it is that you need. It’s just so dangerous because it’s no different than people in their personal lives. They have some kind of issue, they don’t know what’s wrong, and so they just throw money at everything to hopefully make it go away, but they don’t really understand what the underlying problem is. And in my opinion, it’s important to do that for business as well.