Every Master Was Once a Disaster…

Many times, I get the following question. What type of business should I start?

In the truest Socratic Method, I ask, "what are your hobbies? What are your interests?

See the difference between the amateur and the professonal is about a mile long, but the difference between one dollar and 1 million dollars is about an inch long.

Why?

Look at almost any profession and the natural progession is:

Crawl
Walk
Run.

The greatest masters in any sport, profession or career learned how to master their chosen endeavor through practice and work. Now, the key here is that many masters that I've studied love their work, so it doesn't APPEAR to be work.

One of the best pilots I ever flew with while I was in the active duty, once told me that he had some trouble in flight school. He confessed that one day, "everything clicked" and from then on things seemed easier.

That's my experience with business.

I'll often say to business owners, before you earn $100,000 this year, why not shoot for $1. Because once you discover how to earn $1, you just need to repeat the proess 100,000 times.

Its pretty simple really.

Then, why does it seem so hard?
Read again what I wrote earlier. Crawl, Walk, Run.

In my experience, most people want to Run or Walk before they learn to crawl. They want to play and jump like Michael Jordan before they learn to dribble. They want to land the $1 million dollar contract, before they sell a widget.

Again, Crawl, Walk, Run.