5 Ways To Solve Your Challenges

Experience is expensive and you always pay up front. I’ve been taught that statement, learned that statement repeatedly and come to believe that statement until someone smacked me in the head to correct me.

Yes experience is expensive, and yes you do pay up front.  But who said you have to be the one to pay the price?  Why can’t someone else pay the price?

Look at it this way - someone already invented the wheel, so why are you going through all the growing pains to reinvent the wheel?  That’s absolute insanity.  Someone, somewhere has already solved the problems and challenges your facing.

Odds are they probably solved them honestly and ethically and know the success formula to give you the same results.  It makes sense then to go out, find these people and do exactly what they’ve done.  You should get exactly the same results with none of the aggravation, pain and effort required.

Why then don't we do this, and what can we do about it?  We as professionals, and people on general, tend to over-complicate everything. We feel perceived as more important and hard working if the processes are complicated. 

This thinking is both ignorant and wasteful. Talk to any if the most successful people and they all tell you one of the biggest secrets is simplification. They know that results are more impressive than the appearance of hard work. 

To solve your challenges you need to shift your approach and take the the following 5 actions:

1. Decided right now to stop complicating your processes
   
2. Make a list of your current challenges/problems
   
3. Schedule a business brainstorming session with your biggest COMPETITORS to discuss common challenges and look for solutions
   
4. Tap your LinkedIn network and groups, and post your challenges to find solutions
   
5. Google them
   

These may seem simple, but guess what, they work and they take the work off your plate.  You don't need to be the smartest person in the room and you don't have to do all the work yourself.  Simplify your life by leveraging your network and resources to find the right solutions fast and effectively.  

Experience IS expensive.  Let someone else pay the price.  Implement the solutions of other successful people and get what they've got without all the pain and financial challenge. 

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