2. The FAFO Method — Why and How to F*ck Around and Find Out in Your Business

The FAFO Method - Your Business Superpower

Meet the most powerful tool in your business toolbox: The FAFO Method. FAFO means "Fuck Around and Find Out," and it's the best way I've found to make meaningful changes in all areas of life.

Anytime you catch yourself asking "What if...?" or saying "I don't know how to..." that's your cue to bust out FAFO.

The 7 Steps of FAFO

• Step 1: Identify the question you want to answer
• Step 2: Pick a hypothesis to test
• Step 3: Design your experiment
• Step 4: Run the experiment (for 90 days - stick to the plan!)
• Step 5: Conclude and document results
• Step 6: Evaluate and draw conclusions
• Step 7: Repeat with new hypothesis or experiment

Your Stress-Free Scorecard

When evaluating results, ask yourself:

• What did I SAY I was going to do?
• What did I ACTUALLY do?
• How closely did I follow the original plan? (1-10 scale)
• How do I feel about the difference?
• What helped me? What got in the way?
• How will I use what I learned next?

The Change Framework Tripod

FAFO works best with my three-legged change framework:

1. Commitment - Know what you want and why it matters
2. Non-attachment - Stay curious, don't get hung up on specific outcomes
3. FAFO - Actually do the damn thing

Remove any leg and the whole thing falls over. But when you use all three together, lasting change isn't just possible - it's inevitable.

Here's the beautiful part: When the game is "fuck around and find out," there's literally no way to lose. If you found out, you nailed it.

Time to FAFO away!

Thanks to Samantha W. for the unexpectedly perfect audio clip that fit so beautifully with this episode. Shared with permission of course!

Prefer video? Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/BMJhLX_Ysuo

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I’m Kristen King, and I’ve been a coach for pretty much my entire professional career — since the early 2000s after my first solo business hit six figures less than 2 years out of college. Now, I teach humans from all walks of life how to shift from "fuck me" to "fuck yeah" so they can thrive in work, business, relationships, health, and more.

Over the last 15+ years, I've worked in for-profit and non-profit organizations across multiple industries, earned an MBA and a master's in publishing, given countless presentations and trainings for groups ranging from 4 to 6,000, and supported clients — both individuals and organizations — on four continents.

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