{"id":1166,"date":"2018-08-20T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mincmagic.com\/2017\/06\/08\/porsche-911-carrera-gts-copy\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T01:25:08","slug":"good-better-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mincmagic.com\/womens-workation\/2018\/08\/20\/good-better-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Good, better, best"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you ready to work ON your business and change things up?\u00a0 Take your business to the next level?\u00a0 Start that side business you have dreamed of but been too busy with life?\u00a0 You’ve been thinking about it for a long time, it’s been on the to do list.\u00a0 What will it take to actually get it rolling?\u00a0 What is the list of reasons you’ve made to not do it now?\u00a0 Part of what we believe in at M!NC MAGIC is the importance of starting.\u00a0 There is a time for planning and strategizing and\u00a0 a time for process, competitive and market research and analysis. That said it’s important to note this saying.<\/p>\n

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Good, better, best,
\nNever let it rest,
\nUntil the good is better and the better is the best!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s hard to know if that quote is by professional basketball player Tim Duncan or St. Jerome (the patron saint of translators, librarians and encyclopedists).\u00a0 Either way it’s one of my favorites.\u00a0 Maya Angelou writes on this too: \u201cDo the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.\u201d Both of these ideas pay tribute to one of my important beliefs in business.\u00a0 Make it happen.\u00a0 Book that meeting.\u00a0 Done is MUCH better than perfect.\u00a0 Good enough.\u00a0 I’m a big believer in getting that treadmill going because that is exactly where clarity, ideas and momentum starts.<\/p>\n

Getting Started<\/h1>\n

No one says it better than Nike with their “Just do it” slogan.\u00a0 It really can be that simple.\u00a0 A perfect example is our Catapult Catalyst<\/a> program.\u00a0 It literally sat stewing in the cogs of my brain nearly since M!NC started over 10 years ago.\u00a0 I had lots of ideas, voice memos on my phone that I wouldn’t forget, conversations with potential partners, written content for the program.\u00a0 I would sit for hours at a time when inspiration hit and it would keep me up at night.\u00a0 And then time squeezed in, I noticed others doing retreats and I thought, ah let it go.\u00a0 I did let it go for many years until one night in May 2018.\u00a0 I have a few theories on why at that moment<\/strong> it reawakened but it did and with such force.\u00a0 Within 3 months, the program launched and grew extraordinarily….just like a child that was meant to be conceived.<\/p>\n

Limiting Risk<\/h3>\n

Being a business owner one has to take risks but risks should be calculated.\u00a0 Believe it or not this is all the more reason to just run a test to see if the idea can work.\u00a0 Say a new product on an ecommerce website, or a new service for a dentist.\u00a0 It doesn’t have to be a huge ordeal to offer this to select clients.\u00a0 You can put it on a private page on your site and offer it only to clients on your newsletter list as a VIP offer.\u00a0 You can offer dental whitening as a service by bringing in a technician rather than investing in equipment\/training to see if it works.\u00a0 All you have to do is:<\/p>\n

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  • Try<\/strong>. Yes, the infamous beta test.\u00a0 Where you do a soft launch or offer on a program, business idea, focus group, survey.\u00a0 Nothing is stopping you but yourself.\u00a0 Regret is a much heavier burden than you know.<\/li>\n
  • Try, try again.<\/strong> Congrats!\u00a0 You did a test.\u00a0 Maybe you failed, that doesn’t matter.\u00a0 What matters is that you did it and learned from it?\u00a0 Can you make it better?\u00a0 Can you try again with some adjustments?\u00a0 Or did you learn it won’t work but it led to a new idea.\u00a0 Think about the microwave.<\/li>\n
  • Think of Thomas Edison.<\/strong>\u00a0 10,000 attempts it took him. Don’t give up unless you have to.\u00a0 Adjust as you need to, but if something is sticking with you, driving you, work with it.\u00a0 Practice makes perfect…..even for paddle boarding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    We believe that growth and innovation are\u00a0 necessary components to business and to personal happiness.\u00a0 Instead of thinking about risks and why all the time, why not focus on why not?\u00a0 \u00a0M!NC MAGIC practices this all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Being a business owner one has to take risks but risks should be calculated.\u00a0 Believe it or not this is all the more reason to just run a test to see if the idea can work.\u00a0 Say a new product on an ecommerce website, or a new service for a dentist.\u00a0 It doesn’t have to be a huge ordeal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catapult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mincmagic.com\/womens-workation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mincmagic.com\/womens-workation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mincmagic.com\/womens-workation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mincmagic.com\/womens-workation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mincmagic.com\/womens-workation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mincmagic.com\/womens-workation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/mincmagic.com\/womens-workation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mincmagic.com\/womens-workation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mincmagic.com\/womens-workation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mincmagic.com\/womens-workation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mincmagic.com\/womens-workation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}