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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Fachliteratur
- Sprache: Englisch
Get out of your own way and bring your ideas to life! Exactly Where to Start is a playbook for everyone with a great idea, everyone with a goal in mind, and everyone with a specific destination but no journey. We've been told all our lives that "good things come to those who wait"--but that's a myth. Good things come to those who do. Too often, we get stuck in the "getting ready" stage: research, analysis, brainstorming, and more research; we feel like we need to know everything there is to know about what we want to do before we ever take the first steps. Meanwhile, the people who actually go out and do the thing are taking risks, learning lessons, and making strides toward their goals every single day. Isn't it time you joined them? This book coaches you through the journey with precise, actionable steps that help you take that all-important first leap and keep the momentum going. Discard the distractions, break through the overwhelm, and get going for real with this real-world blueprint for turning your vision into reality. * Snap yourself out of "analysis paralysis" * Stop thinking you need to know everything before you even begin * Make those big decisions and focus in on your goals * Chart your journey's path, and get up and get started today Many of us have fallen into a trap: we no longer believe that "anything is possible", yet we are surrounded by proof that everything is possible! But we are distracted, harried, overwhelmed, and maybe a little intimidated. Our dreams remain forever in limbo, and we may go to our graves before we venture beyond the "planning stage". Don't let that happen--don't you deserve to realize your goals? Exactly Where to Start gives you the kick in the pants and the practical plan you need to stand up, step up, and make it happen.
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Praise for Exactly Where to Start
“The first step is the hardest but Phil Jones will get you to take a giant leap with this poignantly powerful book.”
—Jay Baer, hall of fame speaker and New York Times bestseller
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“Phil Jones was put on this planet with an entrepreneurial spirit, laser-sharp mind and a determined work ethic that has yielded incredible individual success. He has earned the industry ‘chops' to take any business and set it on a course to thrive. In Exactly Where to Start Phil equips you with the mindset you need to achieve and the real action steps you need to take to make your IDEA come to life.”
—Lou Diamond, CEO of THRIVE and author of Master the Art of Connecting
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“You want to do your own Great Work: a project with impact, a project with meaning. Of course you feel anxious. Phil Jones shows you how to tip the balance away from the fear and toward the excitement, so you can step over the threshold and begin. Phil Jones shows you exactly how to start.”
—Michael Bungay Stanier, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller, The Coaching Habit
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“For any entrepreneur who wants to move from aspiration to action, this is all you will need to kick start your big idea. Consider it the ‘Tao of Possibility'.”
—Leslie Ehm, founder and chief fire-starter of Combustion Training
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“Phil M. Jones has done it again! He's taken a concept that many people overcomplicate and he's made it simple. He's made it practical. He's made it doable. Phil has created a powerful action-packed guide—a playbook if you will—to help you actualize your vision for success. If you're like most people… taking the first step is the scariest and most challenging part of the journey. Thankfully Phil will show you Exactly Where to Start!”
—Alan Stein, Jr.
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“Phil Jones is one of the smartest, most strategic entrepreneurs I've encountered. In Exactly Where to Start he helps you develop the mindset and action plan needed to make your own big idea a reality. It's filled with brilliant insight distilled into easy-to-digest lessons that will work in any field.”
—Trena White, principal of Page Two Strategies
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“Phil M. Jones is a person who takes action. Not just any action, but strategic objective-oriented action; smart action. He moves fast, learns fast, and progresses forward. He dreams, he strategizes, he jumps. As a result, he has built a career unlike the likes that most will ever achieve and, at the time of the writing of this book, he's still years away from his fourth decade on this planet.
How does he do it? By following a precise blueprint that he has developed over time and that lends to his success—and if failure is involved, it lends to quick failure, so he can course-correct and regain traction. Fortunately for the rest of us, he has laid this precise blueprint out within this book.
As with his other two EXACTLY books, Exactly Where To Start is a simple yet powerful read. It's designed in a way to give you precisely what you need to get your BIG idea up and running as quickly, as realistically, and as successfully as possible.
If you're serious about taking an idea that excites and ignites you but are unsure as to where to start and how to make it your reality, then read this book and put it into action. Then, share your success with the world—and with Phil. He did, after all, write this book for you!”
—Melissa Agnes, Crisis Management Advisor, Keynote Speaker, and Author of Crisis Ready: Building an Invincible Brand in an Uncertain World
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“The hardest thing for most people is to get started. Once again, Phil Jones delivers a book that is concise and actionable. You get exactly what you need when it comes to knowing exactly how to start. The surprise though is how Phil makes the inside work—the mindsets and overcoming the obstacles that hold us back, equally actionable. The perfect little book to get your big idea going!”
—Jeffrey Shaw, brand consultant, host of Creative Warriors podcast, and author of LINGO: Discover Your Ideal Customer's Secret Language and Make Your Business Irresistible
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For Iris – My first mentor
Contents
The Secret Handshake of the Self-Made Man
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 Stop Waiting for Permission
Chapter 3 Stare Down the Monster
Chapter 4 Make It Work on Paper
Chapter 5 Give Yourself a Fine Reputation to Live Up To
Chapter 6 Build Your Squad
Chapter 7 Progress Beats Perfection
Chapter 8 Indecision Is the Enemy
Chapter 9 Upgrade Your Operating System
Chapter 10 Control Your Controllables
A Final Thought
Acknowledgments
About the Author
A Shameless Plug
Index
End User License Agreement
Guide
Cover
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The Secret Handshake of the Self-Made Man
In my circles, when people think of someone as being “self-made” there is a strong possibility they reference me and my work. What I have learned through a stack of personal experiences is that those of us who have carved out our own destiny, created something out of nothing, or found a way of living our dreams do three things very differently from other people.
The commonality is that we:
Feel differently
Think differently
Act differently
These differences are plentiful, and this short-read catalogs, organizes, and sequences the exact feelings, thoughts, and actions that both I and many of my clients have repeated to achieve our own versions of success. These ingredients make up our contracts with ourselves and, once executed, create the unique and exact formulae to allow the success we have imagined to appear in our real lives.
Exactly Where to Start is your playbook to help you turn a great idea into something great.
1Getting Started
You picked up this book because you have an idea about something that you have been meaning to start on, have been thinking about working on, and you believe is something that will work well. I expect that this idea has lived in you for some time and for one reason or another you have just failed to get started.
You have also, no doubt, met dozens of people on your journey who “nearly” achieved something, had a “great idea,” and failed to bring it to reality for one reason or another. These are the “if only …” people…
If only I had started working for myself
If only I had started earlier
If only I had listened to the early advice
If only I were brave enough to try
We have all heard the stories, and perhaps you have told a few of these yourself?
I never planned on writing this book. In fact it was certainly not my big idea to make this a reality. It is because of the plethora of requests from people I have met on my journey as an entrepreneur. They have asked me question after question about the precise steps involved in going from an idea to a real-life business. When I shared this fact with my publishers, they quickly responded by suggesting I reply to those questions with this book.
Why me? If you don’t know me, my start is from quite humble beginnings. I am the son of a builder, with nothing more than a high school education, and have never once been delivered a handout, secured external financing, or waited for the perfect moment to make something happen. Since starting my first business at the age of 14, I have both successfully and unsuccessfully created and launched hundreds of commercial ventures and ideas and also gone on to help many clients to do the same. In short, I don’t ask “Why me?” I ask “Why not me?”
There have been many, many books written about making things happen and getting things done, but none quite like this. You are reading a precise blueprint with the EXACT steps and the EXACT processes required to bring your BIG idea to life. This is exactly the journey used repeatedly throughout my experience to create something out of nothing, turn ideas into reality. And they are the steps I still use today to launch every new product, business initiative, and project.
Regular questions that have been fired in my direction have started to have an air of repetitiveness, and the general direction goes something like this:
Where can I learn how to do it?
Why has someone else not done it already?
What is the right order to do things in?
When is the right time to do it?
What happens if it goes wrong?
Who did it for you?
How do you fit everything in?
