Habits and Hustle - Episode 276: The Power of Taking Action

Episode Date: September 15, 2023

No one is going to be a better advocate for making your goals and dreams come true than you. In this solo episode of the Habits and Hustle podcast, I discuss the importance of executing ideas and making things happen. I share how you can create opportunities by taking small steps, and that it's possible to design the life you want by taking action. What I discuss: 02:40 - The Importance of Idea Execution 09:26 - How to Execute Your Ideas 13:49 - Taking Action and Making Things Happen Thank you to our sponsor: Therasage: Head over to therasage.com and use code Be Bold for 15% off. Find more from Jen: Website: https://www.jennifercohen.com/ Instagram: @therealjencohen Books: https://www.jennifercohen.com/books Speaking: https://www.jennifercohen.com/speaking-engagements Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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please let me know, please leave it in the comments. And also, with ever any episode we do, back and forth, dynamic interaction really helps us and helps us know, engage where and what we should be posting about, what event, current events, what topics, what things you are the most interested in. So please, I encourage everybody to enter along on the dialogue and let us know. With that being said, today we're going to talk about a little bit of business stuff. We're going to talk about the idea of idea versus the execution. You know, we always talk about the same, like it's 99% perspiration and only 1% inspiration. Again, same as idea versus execution,

because I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter how amazing your idea is. It's all about the execution. So even when I have something that I wanna do, that I'm working on, I don't mind telling people what that idea is because it always will come down to who executes on it better. So just having the idea means nothing, it does nothing, it doesn't guarantee any type of success or traction.

All it does is say that you know you have some innovative and creative, great ideas. And if you don't do anything with them, it just stays flat and nothing happens. So I really want to kind of really talk about this more because I want to get people inspired to not just have a good idea, but then to do things and act on them. So you can make that idea a reality. How's that sound? I love that. Things are very important. I've always been a very big idea person and I think I need to definitely be more of an execution gal. Listen, I mean, I got to be honest with you. Like, there are people that I talk to who are still telling me about an idea or a thing that they're working on now that they were, they had to say my idea and thing that they were working

on 10 years ago, even longer, right? But they get distracted, they're working on other things, they're procrastinating. And the truth of the matter is, like, again, I couldn't say, I can't even stress this enough. You're never going to have all the answers, you're never going to know everything. The most important thing is to just start whatever that thing is and figure it out as you go. Don't get stuck in the minutia. Don't get stuck in the thinking what you don't know. Think about what you do know and kind of keep on moving forward and ask questions and ask people who know better than you as you go because otherwise you're going to be stuck with

this idea and it will never become anything. I promise you. I promise you. That's why it's usually the same people who basically ideate and succeed over and over again. And it doesn't matter if that thing that they're doing fails, they can fail a hundred times, but one thing will hit versus that person who's trying to like get this one thing off the ground forever and ever and ever. And some of these things are amazing ideas, but then it doesn't matter if it falls because you're not doing anything for it. So let's talk about execution a little bit.

Let's talk about some of the things actually that I thought were stupid things that had a good execution and a really great marketing plan and it became massive. Look at those pets that have like the Chiapets. Chiapets? The Chiapets? Of course. I'm going to forget I love them. Who would have thought in a million years that would have ever been anything? Right? Those pets that have like the chia pets. The chia pets? Of course. I gotta forget. I love them. Who would have thought in a million years that would have ever been anything, right?

Do you know how much money they made off of those chia pets? Do you know the number? How much did I- I don't even know. I should probably like billion. Look at it. No, like a chia, how much did,

just look it up, chia pet. I mean, I don't know, worth, I don't know. Let's see what comes up. They're $16 a piece and they made millions millions of dollars every year I mean who would have thought that over 500 million over five exactly I mean I can go over all sorts of crazy things the chia pet the cookiest thing I've ever seen in my life Did you see the potato thing potato parcel? Which one is that? Oh my god It absolutely crashed it was when they they would write messages on potatoes. I think it might actually still be a good one.

Oh my God, I do remember that. Yes, and they are still active. They kill it. It's so funny. It's such a crazy concept that they crashed. They crashed it. How about also the beanie babies? Remember those?

Oh my God, yeah, beanie babies. I forgot about those. Right. Oh my God, beanie babies. Beanie babies. The link, I'm gonna name my couple other things. And by the way, the chia pet is on like every single list of the most ridiculous things that actually work.

Oh, the pet rock. Do you remember the pet rock? Mm. The pet rock was a big one too. It was a rock in a cardboard box. It came with 36 pages of on how to care. It came with a 36 page manual on how to care for the silly pet rock.

It was made by creator Gary Doll with a rich man. He sold more than 1.5 million pet rocks which he bought for a penny. He bought each rock for a penny and sold each rock for four dollars. He couldn't just go to the street and get rocks. Listen, people want it for a penny. I mean, what? And he says I put about five million dollars of today's money in my pocket, blah, blah, blah, he talks all about it. So like, this is the thing, right?

Like, no idea is too small, no idea is too stupid, too outrageous, you need to think really out of the box or just figure something out. There's always a need for something. Like, I can go on about these things. Do you remember the kush balls, those kooky balls? That's the stringy ones. I mean, yeah, those things.

Guess how much that made? I honestly, at this point, it's a crazy million. I'm assuming million. They sold the company for $100 million. Geez. The snuggie. There's so many of these things. The snuggie is half a bill, no.

Very higher. The snuggie was, I don't know, the last to shift the snuggie, but that was a few years ago. They sold more than 30 million of the body blankets. Yeah, they topped 500 million. They made more than 500 million. Crazy. So a lot of these things, you know what they did?

And for execution, it was a different time a little bit. They did a lot of those made for TV things. Like a lot of like they bought airtime on TV and then they sold them on TV. That would be kind of the equivalent of doing like social media right now or digital marketing. So my suggestion, if you have an idea or a product that you think is the next big thing, Do small media buys, but do them in social media

and or do them in digital marketing. You can buy ads on podcasts. I'm not saying that to buy one on mine. I'm saying like, in general, that's how people are marketing their stuff right now. A lot of these big brands, what they're doing is they are buying ad space on podcasts because that's the new medium where people's ears and eyes are, right?

So you go where you follow the trend, you follow where the people are, podcasts, you go on TikTok, you do Instagram, Facebook, all those obvious things, influencer marketing. You can also do, and you do those podcasts with media buys, but you start small. You know, you take a very small budget and see if it if it moves the needle, you can do a lot of conversions. Like, I would recommend people really learning about how to do digital sales and digital marketing. If you have a product that you really believe in, and if you don't try to find somebody that's really good in that space, and maybe what you can do is you partner with that person and you can do a barter exchange or you can also, you know, give them a percentage of the business like some stock to do something that you otherwise don't have the ability or understand how to do find people where you are weak to basically to amplify your your product your business and compensate for where you are weak to basically to amplify your product, your business, and compensate for where you're weak with things that you're strong in.

And to me, that's how you start. So you need to be super resourceful and find those people and make little, make baby steps in the right direction. So you can actually start on the execution. It's like a shame to me when I see people and I'm like, oh my god, like that's such a stupid idea. How did that work? And they're like, well, I just, I just started.

I just did it. I don't know. Like, do you know how many times I heard I hear on a daily basis? How the person had zero experience, zero talent, zero, zero, zero, everything? But the only thing that they did do was attempt. They just started and they started with the small thing that they could figure out. And then that thing steamrolled and led to something else and led to something else. And that's really

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and to have Bobby Althoff like took off because I was listening to her podcast about how she started everything and the theme. By the way, for people who don't know who that is, she's an ex-us awkward mom on TikTok. Yeah, she's okay. No, no, she's a sheet, yeah. So she started with awkward mom content on TikTok,

but she started a podcast called The Pretty Awesome Podcast. Oh, is that what it's called? I think it's called, okay. Or The Pretty Good Podcast. Oh, that's what it's called. And it's called Awkward Mom. Or she still happens to be an awkward mom. She's an awkward mom.

Okay, yes, yes, okay. And she interviewed obviously some big names. She's had Drake on, which was really crazy. And the theme of what she said that I thought was so spot on was like, she didn't know what the hell she was doing, she just did it. And she just sort of ran head first. And I think a lot of people are very cautious when they go into things like that. They wouldn't want to interview Drake right away because their nervous, their interview style isn't good, that their production quality isn't

good, that this, that, and the other isn't put together. They don't know how to run a YouTube or even get the audio up, but she didn't really care about any of that stuff. And I think the way that she just kind of went about doing it and just like trying diving head first, who cares, you know? Okay, I feel like it's really cool. Let me just say something about that. I agree, of course, wholeheartedly with what you're saying.

I mean, this entire podcast and everything I talk about is about not overthinking something and diving in head first really and being bold and trying something. There is an element to what happened with her though, that's luck. And I think that we can't discount luck. But in my opinion, you've got to be out there to even make your own luck. That's the thing. She got lucky because she had someone else on.

He Drake so happened to see something that she did that he liked. And then he started to follow her. And then she was very smart and sure and took advantage of that opportunity and asked them to be on the podcast and then the podcast blew up and the rest happened. But what I'm saying is you have to create your own luck. Yes, she was lucky that Drake saw that. Not all of you are going to have Drake in your back pocket

or in your corner. But my point is you can create your own luck by putting yourself in places where opportunities can happen for yourself. That is what has to happen. So it's about networking, it's about talking to people, it's about asking a lot of questions, it's about doing these little things because as little as something may seem when you're doing it, it will lead you to something else and things compound over time and they accumulate and that's how you find other opportunities

and seek other different things. But none of these things happen when you're sitting there with analysis paralysis and thinking, how and what, I don't do, I don't know. Nothing happens on your couch. You gotta get out there and you gotta start moving. And or else whatever you're working on, whatever idea, whatever on, whatever idea,

whatever concept, whatever thing that that thing is, it will never move without that happening. You should brand that line into merch. Nothing happens in your couch. It's a great line. Nothing happens on your couch. Well, something can happen under a couch. Things happen on your couch.

It's just not, you know, like, well, listen. Anyway, the point is that's the point, okay? It's only an idea, is only an idea without any execution behind it, or action, or movement, or any of that stuff. And I know we say this all the time and I repackage that, but it's because it's so important. And if there's anything that you get from my podcast or any of the things that I talk about, it is the fact that it has nothing to do with talent or skills.

It has to do with action and being bold and chasing what you want and not just taking what's in front of you and making shit happen for yourself because nobody is going to be a better advocate for you making things happen the way you want to than yourself. You need to design, you need to curate the life that you want, do the things that you want, spend the time doing things that you want, do the career that you want, but you need to do the work to get there. I like it. Like follow, subscribe. Like,-winning digital media empire YAP Media, and host of YAP Young & Profiting Podcast, a number one entrepreneurship and self-improvement podcast where you can listen, learn, and profit.

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