Another Excuse Newsletter

Welcome back to the Another Excuse Newsletter. It isn’t just another excuse, but a reason to start that thing you’ve been putting off.

What to expect this week:
👓Perspective - Not following our own advice
🔨 Tool - hiremymom.com 
🍿Consume - How to Launch a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend
📖Concept - Monty Hall Paradox

Perspective

Not following our own advice

I think we all consider ourselves good advice givers.

We enjoy being that person who’s able to be there for friends and provide them with insights when they’re going through a tough time.

Some people may even see you as wise.

But a lot of the time we don’t apply that advice to our own situation.

It’s not that we don’t practice what we preach, but a lot of the time we come up with an excuse as to why it doesn’t apply to us.

This can be in any part of life.

Everyone struggles in different areas, but even if it’s in an area that we’re struggling in, we still know what to do if someone else is going through the same problems.

Then why don’t we just follow our own advice?

Because it’s a lot easier to learn about what to do and tell others what to do than actually doing the thing.

I believe we’re all equipped with the knowledge to do what’s best for us. We know what we should be doing, but we come up with excuses not to.

Taking action is the hard part.

Your circumstances aren’t different to your friends, you don’t need to do a little more research to figure it out.

Just do it, you know what to do.

Tool

Hiremymom.com 

This is a strange one.

This website is exactly what the web address says it’s for. Hiring moms.

The website is basically a freelancer site for moms who don’t want to work full time, but want to still keep busy.

You can find some impressive women on the platform and it creates a completely different dynamic to your normal Upwork or Fiverr.

I find this site fascinating not only because it makes sense, but because it’s a great example of niching down.

There’s a lot of business advice out there about finding your niche and solving your own problems, and this business does just that.

You wouldn’t even think that there was an opportunity for a business like this and yet, here it is.

It’s a great indication that maybe you haven’t niched down enough and the market is always bigger than you think.

If you’re looking to hire and need a “mom” type, give it a go. Let me know how it goes.

Consume (Read / Watch / Listen)

How to Launch a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend

This was an amazing episode.

If you can dedicate 4 hours to this mammoth of an episode, I’d highly recommend it.

I’ve been following Noah Kagan for a while. He’s one of the best at providing tactical advice and steps when it comes to business.

He’s written a book and so he’s going on a podcast tour of sorts.

He’s been on quite a few recently, but in this one, they really go in depth on the topics covered in the book.

The book is about validating an idea and launching a business over a weekend and so they go into these steps in the episode too.

They cover the fears you might have, how to get over them and how to check if the idea is even worth it without having to spend money.

If you’ve been thinking about starting something, I’d suggest giving this a listen.

Concept

Monty Hall Paradox

Ok, this took me a while to get my head around, so I’m going to leave a link or two at the end for further reading.

The Monty Hall Paradox is about your odds improving as more information reveals itself.

The paradox is named after a game show host where a game to win a car was played.

A car was hiding behind 1 of 3 doors, but behind the other 2 doors were goats. The aim of the game was to win the car, obviously, but the paradox comes into play midway through the game.

Once the player picks a door, the host would then open one they did not pick. If it reveals a goat, then should the player stick with their answer or change their answer?

In theory, you’d think that changing or staying was now 50/50 odds and so it wouldn’t make a difference.

But the paradox suggests that you should change your answer as your odds will actually be better.

There are statistics involved in the theory and you can check out how it all works here.

But the point is, we should change our minds when new information is revealed because we made the previous decision with less information available to us.

To be honest, I’m still trying to get my head around this concept. Maybe you can tell by this explanation.

Anyway, I thought I’d put you onto it and maybe you found it interesting too?

Thanks for Reading

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