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iAlign #81 - Admit The Mess And Climb The Curve Faster · The iAlign Podcast with Flint Mitchell

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: You're listening to the I Align podcast with Flint Mitchell, where I provide stories, resources, and tools for ambitious builders who are ready to gain control over procrastination, overthinking, and distraction.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Precision is created through iteration.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had a friend asked me recently about some advice and details of the advertising side of my business.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: And for full transparency, I come from the science, engineering, and personal development worlds.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: I had basically no experience with advertising and marketing besides advertising my book that I published several years back, which was my first foray into the world, and I made pretty much only mistakes during that process.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: The reality comes from a Hemingway quote that I love, which is the first draft of everything is shit.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: And not only are the first or the first dozen drafts of nearly everything I do shit, they are characterized by disorganization.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: You can find this in nearly every learning curve you go through because a learning curve implies that you go from not knowing something to knowing something.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: And the process where you learn and therefore are going through the first drafts or iterations of that thing, in my opinion, is the process of going from disorganization to organization.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: And disorganization may mean that you don't have exactly the right way of measuring something that you're trying out, or it may mean that you quite literally don't have a good way of organizing your thoughts or files or projects, etc.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: However it manifests, it always manifests.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: How could it not?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you don't know what you're doing, even if someone gives you a roadmap, you aren't going to know how to take every step until you walk it.
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  SPEAKER_00: A guide helps, but he can't walk the path for you.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: So in this example, my friend was asking me for the efficacy of paid versus organic content in my business.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: And don't get me wrong, I have numbers, but since I am still going through many of the learning curves associated with this area of my business that I'm not a master of, they aren't clean and pretty.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: They are a mixture of real numbers and personal assumptions over gray areas and anecdotes, etc.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: The reality of advertising in my business right now is that some of it is disorganized.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not all of it, but some of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would love to tell you that it's not, but that would be a lie.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, I could lie in order to save face and seem more professional, but the reality is that would be an emotionally reactive response due to a feeling of embarrassment or insecurity or anxiety on my end.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: And it would both hurt him and me.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Him because he would be receiving false or limited information without knowing that it's limited, and me because I would be succumbing to the anxiety associated with the disorganization of a new learning curve.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: What I have learned about this sensation of disorganization is that the faster you can identify it, call it out, expose it, and move through it, the faster you get through the learning curve and the faster you create organization.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: If you cannot handle the emotions that disorganization causes for you, it will likely be impossible for you to actually get to the top of that learning curve.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: You will be stuck spinning your wheels.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: Because I am willing to expose the disorganization in this part of my business, even publicly online, I allow for other people who actually know what they're doing to know what's happening, pinpoint issues, and help me through those obstacles faster.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: The downside of this, obviously, is of course that I have to be honest and show that I am not perfect.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: But in showing that I am not perfect and iterating and learning fast, I will have the precise answers that this friend was asking me about faster than if I tried to hide my imperfections and anxieties and obstacles.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: Coming back to my point, which is that precision is created through iteration.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: If emotional obstacles due to disorganization cause you to iterate slower, you will get the precision slower.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: I hope you enjoyed that episode.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you've been told your entire life that you're smart and you have potential, but you continue to see yourself not do what you said you would do again and again, and it's made you stop trusting in yourself or that you will ever achieve that potential, I want to help you.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Together, you and I will implement a core value-based system that will help you become decisive and focused.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to feel the relief from the weight on your shoulders because of the decreased noise in your head.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: Strength each morning because you trust yourself to turn lost avoidant hours of your life into forward progress.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: Peace, when you no longer have to hide how you actually spend your time.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: And finally, pride in yourself when you close your eyes every night before you go to sleep.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: If that's of interest to you, click the first link in the show notes, fill out the 30 second application, and grab a time on my calendar.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_00: Spots are obviously limited because of my time and availability, but if they fill up and you're a good fit, I'll make sure you get on the wait list.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: I look forward to speaking with you.