August 12, 2025 • 32 mins
Breaking free from the paralysis of perfectionism is one of the greatest challenges entrepreneurs face. Smart, capable people often find themselves stuck in endless planning loops, researching and preparing while their dreams remain unrealized. But what if the secret to success isn't perfect planning, but imperfect action?
In this milestone 100th episode, I dive deep into why we get trapped in expensive procrastination and how Artificial Intelligence can be the game-changer that propels you forward. The truth is simple but counterintuitive: successful entrepreneurs aren't those who knew the most from the start—they're the ones who learned the fastest through real-world experimentation.
I challenge the fundamental belief we've all been conditioned to accept since childhood: that we need to know everything before we try anything. Remember learning to ride a bike? You didn't master balance through lectures; you learned by getting on the bike, falling off, and trying again. Your business works the same way.
The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) becomes your secret weapon here. It's not a subpar version of your ultimate vision—it's the smallest version of your idea that can be shared with potential customers. Using AI, you can create these MVPs in hours rather than months, accelerating your learning process dramatically.
Planning gives us the illusion of control, but it's really just fear disguised as preparation. Every day spent perfecting your plan is a day not building your business. Every week researching is a week not serving customers. Every month prepping is a month not generating revenue or making an impact. The cost of overplanning is significantly higher than the cost of starting imperfectly.
Listen to discover how to use AI not as another planning tool, but as a catalyst for action. Learn practical prompts that will help you overcome perfectionism, test your ideas quickly, and build your tolerance for imperfection. Your business is waiting for you to build it—not to think about it. Are you ready to stop planning and start doing?
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Hey everyone, welcome to the Create your Day podcast.
I'm your host, jen Cody, andthis is episode 100.
I'm so happy that you are herewith me for all these episodes.
If you're not new here, welcomeback and congratulations on
making it to episode 100.
If you are new here, welcome.
I'm so happy that you'vediscovered this podcast and I
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will say right off the bat thatthis week's episode is a little
bit of a continuation from lastweek, so if you are new here,
you might want to go back toepisode 99 and listen to it.
We spoke last week aboutexpensive procrastination, how
all of our planning that we docan actually keep us stuck in
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one place.
I did issue a challenge, a48-hour challenge.
If you did it, great.
If you haven't already messagedme about it, please hit me up
on Instagram at Solutions by JenCody, or you can send me an
email at Jen at JenCodycom, andthere are two N's in Jen.
But today we're going to go alittle bit deeper and we're
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going to bring AI into the mix,because I know after our last
conversation there's so muchmore we need to talk about,
especially about why reallysmart, really capable people get
stuck in these planning loopsover and over and over again,
and we're going to talk aboutwhat works instead.
So let's start by just talkingabout learning versus knowing.
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We've been conditioned since wewere little to believe that we
need to know how to do somethingbefore we try to do it.
So go back to when you wereyounger.
Right, think about when youwere in school.
Think about when you hadconversations with your parents
as you got older.
Think about you know all of theprofessional development
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courses you've ever taken.
Anything that you've everchosen to learn has kind of
approached it from the place ofyou need to learn it before you
can do it, and that's not reallyhow learning works when you
think of it.
So let's go back still to whenwe were kids and we were
learning to ride a bike.
When you first learned to ridea bike, you certainly did not
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read about balance.
You did not get lectured onmaintaining momentum.
You learned by getting on thebike and you fell off until you
figured it out, even if you gothurt.
You scraped your knees, bangedyour head.
Eventually something clickedand you learned how to ride the
bike.
Our business works the same way.
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A lot of things work the sameway, but for today we're going
to talk about it through thelens of our businesses.
We don't learn marketing bytaking courses in marketing.
Right, they're helpful, butwhat actually teaches us
marketing is trying to marketsomething and seeing what
happens.
We don't learn sales by readingsales books.
We learn sales by trying tosell something and seeing what
happens.
We don't learn sales by readingsales books we learn sales by
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trying to sell things to peopleand discovering along the way
what's working and what's notworking.
So the entrepreneurs andbusiness owners that you know
who are successful, they're notthe ones who knew the most,
they're just the ones wholearned the fastest, and that is
a totally different skill set,and we're going to get into that
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a little bit today and again,like I said, I want to talk
about AI.
Ai is everywhere.
You can literally use it inevery aspect of your life.
There's an episode a couple ofepisodes back, where I spoke
about AI for your self-care.
Go back and listen to that one,if you haven't already.
There are so many ways that wecan incorporate AI, even down to
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meal planning, which isactually something we're going
to talk about in a little bit.
One of the clients that Iworked with did some AI meal
planning that we're going to getinto, but for now, let's start
with this.
I want to talk about somethingthat we didn't get to last week,
which is the minimum viableproduct, or MVP.
This is a concept from thestartup world, and every single
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person in business really needsto understand it, because I have
found that a lot of people aregetting this wrong.
They think that the MVP is likea crappy version of what their
ultimate vision is, but that'snot at all what it is.
It's not.
The MVP is not there for you tobe embarrassed by it and have
to tell someone don't worry,it's going to get better.
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The MVP is the smallest versionof your idea.
It's like the tiniest bits andpieces of the idea that you have
that you need so that you canshare it with someone else, and
this is kind of where the48-hour challenge was going,
when I was telling you you knowthat you should take whatever it
is that you're working on andshare it with one person over
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the next 48 hours.
This is what we're talkingabout.
It's just the MVP.
So if this is something youdon't have or you don't even
know what it would be, so ifthis is something you don't have
or you don't even know what itwould be, ai can completely
change the game for you.
Instead of you spending monthsbuilding your elaborate program
or building your elaboratebusiness, you can use AI to help
you create these MVPs inminutes or hours you know,
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instead of weeks and months.
So let's say you want to starta coaching program similar to
what I do.
Right, my MVP is not mycomprehensive 12-week program
where I've created workbooks andbonus materials and I have my
Facebook group.
My MVP is just coaching oneperson through one problem
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connecting with someone andoffering to help them with
whatever their one problem isthat I can help them with, right
there, on the spot.
That's my MVP.
You can use AI to help you.
If you're looking to dosomething like this.
Ai can help you create a simplesession outline for a coaching
session.
It can help you prepare a listof questions.
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It can help you if you recordyour session.
You can put it into AI and haveit help you debrief afterwards
what do you need to take awayfrom that session.
So that's how AI can help withthat.
What about if you own a productbusiness?
Your MVP, again, is notmanufacturing a thousand units
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with packaging and a marketingcampaign.
Your MVP is making a few unitsby hand, or maybe it's actually
even making just one prototypeso that you can see if people
actually want to buy it.
Ai is there to help youbrainstorm.
What are the most simplematerials that I can use to
build?
Whatever the product is thatI'm trying to build, what are
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the most basic instructions thatI need to come up with to help
someone understand how to use myproduct?
And how about market research?
Can we use AI to figure out whoare our potential customers?
Here's what I'm looking tocreate.
Figure out who are ourpotential customers.
Here's what I'm looking tocreate.
Tell me, give me four or fiveavatars of people that you think
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would be helped by this product.
So I want to talk about the mealplanning, right?
So AI is amazing when it comesto this, and I've thought about
it when it comes to our personallife, right, like?
I can go on AI, chat GPT orClaude or whatever.
What is it?
Gemini?
You can go on there everySunday and say I have X, y and Z
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in my refrigerator.
Give me seven meals to makethis week.
That's a way that you can useit to cut time in your personal
life, however, I worked withsomeone who wanted to actually
start a meal planning servicefor like people trying to get in
shape and count their macros,things like this, and she really
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could have spent monthscreating really elaborate
recipes, really elaborate mealplans for every single dietary
restriction, and instead sheused AI to create one week and
then test that with a few people.
Just to start off, she offeredit to, I want to say, maybe
three of her friends and in thatweek she learned so much about
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people's preferences, what iseasiest, what was really
difficult, and it would havetaken her months to put this
together without the help of AIand she still would have learned
those lessons.
But think of how much fastershe got a little further along
in her business Because findingout that people really didn't
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want elaborate recipes, theywanted really simple ingredients
, they wanted these, you know,simple shopping lists.
That was something that sheonly found out so quickly
because AI helped her test anditerate really quickly.
Instead of planning in a vacuumand that's what a lot of us wind
up doing of planning in avacuum, and that's what a lot of
us wind up doing.
We plan in a vacuum.
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We plan for what we thinkpeople want, instead of for what
they actually want.
So let's talk a little bit moreabout why us smart and capable
people that I referenced in thebeginning why do we get stuck in
these loops?
Why do we get stuck in thesecontinuous hamster wheels of
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thinking about our dreamsinstead of actually doing what
needs to be done to bring themto fruition?
I think it's because planninggives us the illusion of control
and, by nature, people who areentrepreneurial, who want to own
their own businesses by nature,people who are entrepreneurial,
who want to own their ownbusinesses we are control freaks
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.
We want control.
So if we think through everypossible scenario, if we
anticipate every potentialproblem and research all the
solutions, then maybe we canguarantee our success.
And I'm sure you know as wellas I do that just ain't how
business works and it's not howlife works either.
You cannot plan your way tocertainty, and trying to plan
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our way to certainty is whatkeeps us stuck in these loops.
The only way to actually getcertainty is to try things and
see what happens.
So overplanning winds up justbeing an avoidance mechanism.
Right, we're trying to avoid theuncertainty of entrepreneurship
, but here's what I want you tounderstand the uncertainty that
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you're avoiding.
It's not a failure or a bug inthe system.
It's actually a feature of thisprocess where we can find
things like hidden opportunities.
We can find places for ourinnovation to get lit up.
These are the moments whenwe're uncertain that our brain
those like areas of the brainlight up and we start to become
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creative.
We start to grow asentrepreneurs, as people, and
really were able to see clearlythings that we weren't able to
see before.
This is why what I really wantyou to do is embrace and lean
into that uncertainty instead oftrying to eliminate it, because
when you do that, you're goingto see that every single thing
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changes and we get ourselvesinto this place because we get
really good at telling ourselvesstories right, I'm sure you're
just as good of a storyteller asI am and we get good at telling
ourselves any story we need toto justify where we are.
I have heard myself say thesethings and I have heard all of
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you say these things to me.
I just want to be prepared.
I don't want to waste timegoing in the wrong direction.
I want to make sure there'sreally a market for this.
I need to understand mycompetition better.
They all sound reasonable, butthey're really just fear.
They're keeping us stuckbecause we're afraid of putting
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ourselves out there.
I'm going to tell you right nowyou cannot prepare for most of
what's going to happen.
You are going to go in thewrong direction, and that's how
you find the right direction.
There might not be a market foryour exact idea, but finding
that out is going to help youpivot to something else that you
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do find a market for, andunderstanding your competition
doesn't matter if you're nevergoing to put yourself out there
and actually compete.
So what we need to do is getreally practical and honest.
Let's talk about what are wereally afraid of?
What are the business reasonsthat you're telling yourself
that you need to keep planning,because what's actually going on
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are certain deeper fearsunderneath that.
So right now, do me a favor graba piece of paper, open a note
on your phone whatever worksbest for you and write down what
you're afraid will happen ifyou start before you're ready.
Really, write it down.
Maybe you want to pause this.
Do a little brain dumping.
It doesn't have to be onesentence.
Let it be as much.
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As it's going to take to get itout of your brain.
I don't want you to just thinkabout it.
There's really somethingpowerful about getting it out of
your head and onto the paper.
So if you need to hit pause, goahead and then come back when
you're ready.
Okay, so assuming you've writtenthis down or put it on a phone
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note inside your iPhone, look atwhat you're afraid of, and then
I want you to ask yourself twoquestions.
The first one is what is theworst case scenario that could
realistically happen?
Make sure you use the wordrealistically when you ask
yourself this.
I want you to go down this road, go down the road of the worst
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case scenario, and every timeyou think you're at the end of
the road, ask yourself and thenwhat might happen?
And then what might happen andallow yourself to go to the
really dark place.
Happen and then what mighthappen, and allow yourself to go
to the really dark place.
Because what I'm hoping is goingto happen for you is, as you
get to the end of that worstcase scenario, you're going to
ask yourself question number two, and that is if that worst case
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scenario did happen, how wouldyou handle it?
Chances are, you probably havesome knowledge inside of you
that you know how you wouldhandle it.
And if you're stuck there,here's where AI can actually
help you.
Take those fears you wrote down.
I want you to paste them intoChatGPT or into Claude, and then
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I want you to put this promptin there Help me reality check
these fears what is the actuallikelihood of these scenarios
happening and what are somepractical ways I could handle
them if they did?
Because one thing AI is nevergoing to do it's sugarcoat it.
So you're going to get a reallybalanced response because you
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won't get the sugar coating, butit's also not going to
catastrophize things the way ourbrains do.
It's going to give you anobjective perspective, which is
what you actually need to seethat most of your worst case
scenarios either aren't that bador that you're more than
capable of handling whatevercomes up next.
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So I did this exercise about mypodcast.
When I first started thepodcast, I was really terrified
that people wouldn't think Iknew what I was talking about,
and I was really terrified thatthe people who knew me would
think less of me somehow wouldthink that I had.
You know I was trying to dosomething that I didn't know I
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was.
I don't know, I just I wasuncomfortable about putting
myself out there, and when I putthat fear into AI, it helped me
realize that even harshcriticism was just going to give
me data to improve, and thatwas literally the worst case
scenario that I was so afraid of.
So there is a way for us toovercome those fears and if
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we're stuck in that loopourselves, use AI.
Go through those prompts andsee how the AI can help you.
Okay, let's move on to somethingelse I want to talk to you guys
about, which is opportunitycost.
Every single day that you spendperfecting your plan is a day
that you're not building yourbusiness.
Every week that you spendresearching is a week that
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you're not serving.
We have customers to serve.
We have things that we need tobe out there doing.
Every month that you spendprepping is a month that you're
not generating revenue.
How about that?
Or making an impact.
I know for certain that a lot ofyou are doing what you're doing
because you are trying to makean impact.
It's what drives mostentrepreneurs.
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What's the impact you're tryingto make?
You can't make it behind yourdesk.
You can't make it in youroffice all day.
You need to be speaking topeople, be out there working
your business, serving yourcustomers.
Those opportunities, they dohave expiration dates.
The market conditions thatexist today while you're doing
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all your research.
If it takes you six months toput that into practice, those
market conditions are not goingto be the same thing six months
from now.
Those market conditions are notgoing to be the same thing six
months from now.
The problem you want to solvethere's a good chance it's going
to be solved by someone elsewhile you're still planning.
And the people who need whatyou offer, they're going to find
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a solution.
So why shouldn't it be yoursolution?
Because otherwise they're justgoing to be finding someone
else's solution while you'restill getting yours ready.
And I'm in no way saying thatyou need to be reckless.
I'm not saying just go for it.
You know, throw caution to thewind.
I'm saying that the cost ofover planning is higher than the
cost of starting imperfectly.
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So think about this what if youhad started your business idea
six months ago, even imperfectly?
Where would it be now?
Where would you be now?
What would you have learned?
How many people might you havehelped already?
You know there's that memeabout working out right and it
says you know, in six months,you'll have wished you started
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today.
It's the same thing when itcomes to our business.
We need to put good planninginto practice so that we don't
get stuck in these expensiveprocrastination planning loops.
And it actually is simpler thanwe think.
The first thing we need to do isget clarity on the problem
we're solving and who we'resolving it for, and then we want
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to put that hypothesis intoplace.
How are we going to solve it?
And then what is a plan fortesting?
Remember, last week I said, weknow, as entrepreneurs, that we
have to get clarity, get clearon who we're helping, get clear
on the problem we're helpingthem solve.
But how do we figure out how totest whether what we're doing
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is actually working?
Figure out how to test whetherwhat we're doing is actually
working and how do we committhat we're going to actually
learn from those results andpivot when we need to.
Everything else can get figuredout as we go along.
So let's figure out how to useAI as our secret weapon for
smart planning instead ofendless planning.
So, instead of planning weeks,weeks and weeks and weeks
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researching your target market,go into AI.
Today I want to solve thisproblem for this type of person?
What are the most importantquestions?
I should ask five potentialcustomers to validate this idea.
How easy is that?
Because those are the things weneed to do that market research
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and figure out who our targetmarket really is.
Instead of creating elaboratefinancial projections, let's use
AI.
Help me create a simple,one-page business model for your
idea.
Insert your idea there.
Where are the key assumptions Ineed to test first, let AI be
your friend.
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Let AI be your assistant.
When you want to research yourcompetitors, ask AI.
What are three simple ways Icould differentiate my business
idea in a crowded market.
Give it the names of yourcompetitors, if you need to.
If you don't know who yourcompetitors are, ask them.
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Ask AI to tell you here's whatI do, here's who I do it for,
who are the top 10 people thatare in my market that my target
market is going to, and then howdo I differentiate myself from
that crowded market?
Ai can give you 80% of thesolution in 20% of the time, and
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this is what's going to allowyou to spend your energy on the
thing that actually matters,which is testing your ideas with
real people.
The only thing that is evergoing to move your business
forward is sharing it withpeople.
I understand that you want toknow as much as you need to know
about it, but if I wanted toopen a pizzeria, I can't just
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sit in my kitchen by myselfcooking pizza all day and never
sharing it with other people.
If I wait until I think thepizza is perfect, all of those
people are going to go buy pizzasomewhere else.
Good planning is what gets youto action faster instead of
being so slow.
It reduces the friction betweenyour idea and your
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implementation.
This is what's going to helpyou start and not delay when you
actually start.
All of your planning, like Isaid last week, needs to fit on
one page.
It has to have a deadline.
Also, if your planning doesn'thave an end date, it's not
planning, it's procrastination.
To have a deadline also, ifyour planning doesn't have an
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end date, it's not planning,it's procrastination.
So get all of that on one pageand then put a date to when you
are going to put it out into theworld, because you know what
happens when you actually putsomething out into the world.
You get feedback real feedbackfrom real people, not the
imaginary feedback that you'regetting in your head where
you're saying, oh, this isn'tgood enough, because people
might think X, y, z, no, no, no,you're going to get real
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feedback, and real feedback isgold.
This is what tells you thatwhat is working for you and what
is not.
It shows you opportunities thatyou never would have thought of
on your own and it revealsproblems that you might not have
anticipated, and that's reallykey.
But here's the thing you cannotget real feedback when you're
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just in planning mode.
You can only get feedback onsomething that actually exists
and other people can interactwith, and this is why my fire
ready aim approach is so muchbetter than ready aim fire so
much better.
When you fire first.
When you put something out intothe world, the feedback you get
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helps you aim so much betterthe next time and I know we're
perfectionists, right, we getstuck in planning mode and the
whole approach feels wrong tofire first.
Every cell in your body is goingto be resisting what I'm
telling you to do today, becausewe want to resist putting
something imperfect out into theworld.
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But here's what I learned aboutmy perfectionism, and I learned
it the hard way.
It's not about high standards.
That's what we tell ourselvesOur perfectionism is.
It just needs to be exactly theway I want it.
It's not about high standards.
That's what we tell ourselvesOur perfectionism is.
It just needs to be exactly theway I want it right.
My standards are so high.
I just need it to be exactlythe way it needs to be.
No, come on, that's BS.
It's fear.
We're afraid of being judged,we're afraid of failing, we're
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afraid of not being good enough.
And perfectionism, as much aswe think it does, it doesn't
actually protect us from thosethings.
It just delays them, it makesthem feel bigger, makes them
feel scarier and it just makesit worse instead of better.
So the perfectionist they thinkthat they need to get it right
the first time.
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They can't do it until they'regoing to get it right.
But the pragmatist knows thatthey need to get started so that
they can learn how to get itright.
And that's what you need to be.
If you are a perfectionist, Iwant you to switch and become
pragmatic in how you approachthings.
The only way for you to do thatis imperfect practice.
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So here's a challenge for thisweek I want you to practice
being imperfect on purpose.
This is not about being sloppy.
It's not about being careless.
It's about building yourtolerance for putting things out
there before they're perfect.
And again, let's bring AI inand let AI help you get
comfortable with imperfection.
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So here are some AI-poweredways for you to practice this
Ask AI to help you write asocial media post about your
business and then post itwithout editing it 17 times.
You can fix punctuation here andthere.
Give it a once over.
Do not go over it 17 times.
Have AI help you draft an emailto your list and then send it,
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even if it's not perfect.
Use AI to create an outline fora piece of content and then
take action on that piece ofcontent.
Do it in one take.
Take that outline and recordyourself.
Create the content.
You can also ask AI for fiveconversation starters to reach
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out to potential customers.
And then guess what I want youto do?
Open up that iPhone, find fivepeople that are potential
customers and reach out to themtoday.
Use those conversation starters.
And last, you can use AI tohelp you brainstorm a simple
version of your product or yourservice.
So if you feel like what you'recreating is too big, bring it
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back to that MVP, the minimumviable product.
Use AI for this.
Here's what I'm creating.
I need to distill it down tosomething simple that I could
just get out to someoneimmediately.
The goal is for you to buildyour tolerance for imperfection,
because if you can't learn tobe imperfect in these small ways
, you're never going to take thebig imperfect action that
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actually builds your business.
So one thing I want to sayabout AI it is not going to give
you perfect content.
We'll get to you know how toprogram it and set it up and
teach it.
All of that that's a differentepisode, but just know it's not
going to give you perfectcontent.
It's going to give you goodenough content that you can
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improve and you can make yourown, and that's what you need to
break out of your perfectionism.
So I want you to think aboutall of this and then understand
that all of the people youadmire, the people with
successful businesses andconfident social media posts,
impressive revenue numbers, allthe things that you want for
your own business almost all ofthem started with plans that
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were nothing like what theyeventually built.
They started with one idea andended up somewhere completely
different.
They pivoted, they adjusted,they learned, they adapted.
I was listening to AmyPorterfield's podcast last week
and I don't know if you know whoshe is, but she has the Amy
Porterfield podcast.
It's all on marketing, reallygreat information.
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And anyway, she referenced howshe used to teach Facebook ads.
I never knew she did that, butthat was part of her journey in
the beginning.
And then she pivoted and didwhat she needed to do to become
the person that she is now.
So their success didn't comefrom following their original
plan perfectly.
It came from being willing tochange the plan based on what
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they learned along the way.
So stop trying to write theperfect plan for the business
that does not exist yet.
Start building somethingimperfectly and let it teach you
what your business actuallywants you to become.
So what's the next right stepfor you?
Not the next right plan, butjust the next right step.
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I would love for you to look atyour business idea, look at all
the planning you've been doingand then ask yourself what is
the smallest, simplest thing Icould do this week to test
whether this idea has legs?
Let AI help you.
Don't just think about what youcould do.
Use AI to help you.
If you want to offer a service,remember, ask AI.
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Help me write a simple messageI can send to three people
offering insert your servicehere for free in exchange for
feedback and then send thosemessages today.
If you have a product idea, askAI what's the simplest way I
could create a prototype ofinsert your product and what
materials should I use and thengo buy those materials this week
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?
Creating content Ask AI.
Give me five titles forarticles about whatever your
expertise area is.
That would help your targetaudience.
Pick one, write it and publishit this week.
If you want to start coaching,ask AI.
Help me create a simple30-minute coaching session
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outline for someone strugglingwith XYZ.
Whatever specific problem isthat you want to coach on, and
then offer that session tosomeone for free.
Open your phones, look for thepeople and connect with them.
Call them up, send them anemail or a text, ask them to
meet you for a coffee.
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This is how your business grows.
The key is using AI not to planmore, but to act faster.
Let AI handle the thinking soyou can just focus on the doing.
And I'm going to give you alittle tip After you take action
, go back to AI and ask I justtried, put in whatever it is
that you did.
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Here's what happened.
Put in the results of thefeedback that you got and then
ask what should I try next?
Ai can help you iterate quicklyinstead of going back into
planning mode.
So look, I totally get it.
This is scary stuff puttingyourself out there before you
feel ready.
It goes against everythingwe've been taught about how to
succeed.
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But how do you know that youare going to learn?
It's because you're going totake a perfect action, much more
than you'll ever learn fromperfect planning.
And there's something reallybeautiful about using AI in your
business too.
It removes so many of theexcuses that we use to keep
planning instead of doing.
You don't have to spend weeksresearching, because AI can give
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you the insight you need inseconds.
You don't have to agonize overperfect copy.
Ai can help you create copythat is just good enough so that
you can put the content outthere and improve as you go.
You don't have to haveeverything figured out.
Ai can help you problem solvein real time.
But please remember that the AIit's a tool for action.
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It's not another planning tool.
I don't want you to use AI tojust create more elaborate
business plans.
Use it to create fast, smartaction.
Your business is waiting foryou to build it.
It's not waiting for you tothink about it, and now you have
all of this information, all ofthese prompts for AI to help
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you build it faster than everbefore.
So I gave you your homework.
You're going to connect withpeople, and I want you to pick
one thing from today's episodeUse AI to help you do it Not
help you plan it, but thenactually do it and then share
with me.
I want to hear what you'rebuilding.
Send me the message onInstagram at solutionsbyjencody.
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Email is jen at jencodycom.
Tell me the action you took.
Tell me how AI helped you.
If you discovered somethingalong the way, share it.
People learn from otherpeople's experiences, and I love
hearing from yours.
So next week, we're going toget more into this and between
now and then, I want you to takethis information.
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Go out there, create the daythat you deserve, create your
day in the best way possible andcreate the business that you
are dreaming of.
Until then, take care ofyourselves, take care of each
other, and I will see you nextweek.
Remember, time is now to stopplanning and start doing.
See you next week.
Hey everyone, welcome to the Create your Day podcast.
I'm your host, jen Cody, andthis is episode 100.
I'm so happy that you are herewith me for all these episodes.
If you're not new here, welcomeback and congratulations on
making it to episode 100.
If you are new here, welcome.
I'm so happy that you'vediscovered this podcast and I
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will say right off the bat thatthis week's episode is a little
bit of a continuation from lastweek, so if you are new here,
you might want to go back toepisode 99 and listen to it.
We spoke last week aboutexpensive procrastination, how
all of our planning that we docan actually keep us stuck in
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one place.
I did issue a challenge, a48-hour challenge.
If you did it, great.
If you haven't already messagedme about it, please hit me up
on Instagram at Solutions by JenCody, or you can send me an
email at Jen at JenCodycom, andthere are two N's in Jen.
But today we're going to go alittle bit deeper and we're
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going to bring AI into the mix,because I know after our last
conversation there's so muchmore we need to talk about,
especially about why reallysmart, really capable people get
stuck in these planning loopsover and over and over again,
and we're going to talk aboutwhat works instead.
So let's start by just talkingabout learning versus knowing.
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We've been conditioned since wewere little to believe that we
need to know how to do somethingbefore we try to do it.
So go back to when you wereyounger.
Right, think about when youwere in school.
Think about when you hadconversations with your parents
as you got older.
Think about you know all of theprofessional development
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courses you've ever taken.
Anything that you've everchosen to learn has kind of
approached it from the place ofyou need to learn it before you
can do it, and that's not reallyhow learning works when you
think of it.
So let's go back still to whenwe were kids and we were
learning to ride a bike.
When you first learned to ridea bike, you certainly did not
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read about balance.
You did not get lectured onmaintaining momentum.
You learned by getting on thebike and you fell off until you
figured it out, even if you gothurt.
You scraped your knees, bangedyour head.
Eventually something clickedand you learned how to ride the
bike.
Our business works the same way.
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A lot of things work the sameway, but for today we're going
to talk about it through thelens of our businesses.
We don't learn marketing bytaking courses in marketing.
Right, they're helpful, butwhat actually teaches us
marketing is trying to marketsomething and seeing what
happens.
We don't learn sales by readingsales books.
We learn sales by trying tosell something and seeing what
happens.
We don't learn sales by readingsales books we learn sales by
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trying to sell things to peopleand discovering along the way
what's working and what's notworking.
So the entrepreneurs andbusiness owners that you know
who are successful, they're notthe ones who knew the most,
they're just the ones wholearned the fastest, and that is
a totally different skill set,and we're going to get into that
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a little bit today and again,like I said, I want to talk
about AI.
Ai is everywhere.
You can literally use it inevery aspect of your life.
There's an episode a couple ofepisodes back, where I spoke
about AI for your self-care.
Go back and listen to that one,if you haven't already.
There are so many ways that wecan incorporate AI, even down to
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meal planning, which isactually something we're going
to talk about in a little bit.
One of the clients that Iworked with did some AI meal
planning that we're going to getinto, but for now, let's start
with this.
I want to talk about somethingthat we didn't get to last week,
which is the minimum viableproduct, or MVP.
This is a concept from thestartup world, and every single
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person in business really needsto understand it, because I have
found that a lot of people aregetting this wrong.
They think that the MVP is likea crappy version of what their
ultimate vision is, but that'snot at all what it is.
It's not.
The MVP is not there for you tobe embarrassed by it and have
to tell someone don't worry,it's going to get better.
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The MVP is the smallest versionof your idea.
It's like the tiniest bits andpieces of the idea that you have
that you need so that you canshare it with someone else, and
this is kind of where the48-hour challenge was going,
when I was telling you you knowthat you should take whatever it
is that you're working on andshare it with one person over
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the next 48 hours.
This is what we're talkingabout.
It's just the MVP.
So if this is something youdon't have or you don't even
know what it would be, so ifthis is something you don't have
or you don't even know what itwould be, ai can completely
change the game for you.
Instead of you spending monthsbuilding your elaborate program
or building your elaboratebusiness, you can use AI to help
you create these MVPs inminutes or hours you know,
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instead of weeks and months.
So let's say you want to starta coaching program similar to
what I do.
Right, my MVP is not mycomprehensive 12-week program
where I've created workbooks andbonus materials and I have my
Facebook group.
My MVP is just coaching oneperson through one problem
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connecting with someone andoffering to help them with
whatever their one problem isthat I can help them with, right
there, on the spot.
That's my MVP.
You can use AI to help you.
If you're looking to dosomething like this.
Ai can help you create a simplesession outline for a coaching
session.
It can help you prepare a listof questions.
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It can help you if you recordyour session.
You can put it into AI and haveit help you debrief afterwards
what do you need to take awayfrom that session.
So that's how AI can help withthat.
What about if you own a productbusiness?
Your MVP, again, is notmanufacturing a thousand units
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with packaging and a marketingcampaign.
Your MVP is making a few unitsby hand, or maybe it's actually
even making just one prototypeso that you can see if people
actually want to buy it.
Ai is there to help youbrainstorm.
What are the most simplematerials that I can use to
build?
Whatever the product is thatI'm trying to build, what are
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the most basic instructions thatI need to come up with to help
someone understand how to use myproduct?
And how about market research?
Can we use AI to figure out whoare our potential customers?
Here's what I'm looking tocreate.
Figure out who are ourpotential customers.
Here's what I'm looking tocreate.
Tell me, give me four or fiveavatars of people that you think
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would be helped by this product.
So I want to talk about the mealplanning, right?
So AI is amazing when it comesto this, and I've thought about
it when it comes to our personallife, right, like?
I can go on AI, chat GPT orClaude or whatever.
What is it?
Gemini?
You can go on there everySunday and say I have X, y and Z
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in my refrigerator.
Give me seven meals to makethis week.
That's a way that you can useit to cut time in your personal
life, however, I worked withsomeone who wanted to actually
start a meal planning servicefor like people trying to get in
shape and count their macros,things like this, and she really
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could have spent monthscreating really elaborate
recipes, really elaborate mealplans for every single dietary
restriction, and instead sheused AI to create one week and
then test that with a few people.
Just to start off, she offeredit to, I want to say, maybe
three of her friends and in thatweek she learned so much about
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people's preferences, what iseasiest, what was really
difficult, and it would havetaken her months to put this
together without the help of AIand she still would have learned
those lessons.
But think of how much fastershe got a little further along
in her business Because findingout that people really didn't
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want elaborate recipes, theywanted really simple ingredients
, they wanted these, you know,simple shopping lists.
That was something that sheonly found out so quickly
because AI helped her test anditerate really quickly.
Instead of planning in a vacuumand that's what a lot of us wind
up doing of planning in avacuum, and that's what a lot of
us wind up doing.
We plan in a vacuum.
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We plan for what we thinkpeople want, instead of for what
they actually want.
So let's talk a little bit moreabout why us smart and capable
people that I referenced in thebeginning why do we get stuck in
these loops?
Why do we get stuck in thesecontinuous hamster wheels of
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thinking about our dreamsinstead of actually doing what
needs to be done to bring themto fruition?
I think it's because planninggives us the illusion of control
and, by nature, people who areentrepreneurial, who want to own
their own businesses by nature,people who are entrepreneurial,
who want to own their ownbusinesses we are control freaks
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.
We want control.
So if we think through everypossible scenario, if we
anticipate every potentialproblem and research all the
solutions, then maybe we canguarantee our success.
And I'm sure you know as wellas I do that just ain't how
business works and it's not howlife works either.
You cannot plan your way tocertainty, and trying to plan
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our way to certainty is whatkeeps us stuck in these loops.
The only way to actually getcertainty is to try things and
see what happens.
So overplanning winds up justbeing an avoidance mechanism.
Right, we're trying to avoid theuncertainty of entrepreneurship
, but here's what I want you tounderstand the uncertainty that
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you're avoiding.
It's not a failure or a bug inthe system.
It's actually a feature of thisprocess where we can find
things like hidden opportunities.
We can find places for ourinnovation to get lit up.
These are the moments whenwe're uncertain that our brain
those like areas of the brainlight up and we start to become
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creative.
We start to grow asentrepreneurs, as people, and
really were able to see clearlythings that we weren't able to
see before.
This is why what I really wantyou to do is embrace and lean
into that uncertainty instead oftrying to eliminate it, because
when you do that, you're goingto see that every single thing
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changes and we get ourselvesinto this place because we get
really good at telling ourselvesstories right, I'm sure you're
just as good of a storyteller asI am and we get good at telling
ourselves any story we need toto justify where we are.
I have heard myself say thesethings and I have heard all of
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you say these things to me.
I just want to be prepared.
I don't want to waste timegoing in the wrong direction.
I want to make sure there'sreally a market for this.
I need to understand mycompetition better.
They all sound reasonable, butthey're really just fear.
They're keeping us stuckbecause we're afraid of putting
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ourselves out there.
I'm going to tell you right nowyou cannot prepare for most of
what's going to happen.
You are going to go in thewrong direction, and that's how
you find the right direction.
There might not be a market foryour exact idea, but finding
that out is going to help youpivot to something else that you
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do find a market for, andunderstanding your competition
doesn't matter if you're nevergoing to put yourself out there
and actually compete.
So what we need to do is getreally practical and honest.
Let's talk about what are wereally afraid of?
What are the business reasonsthat you're telling yourself
that you need to keep planning,because what's actually going on
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are certain deeper fearsunderneath that.
So right now, do me a favor graba piece of paper, open a note
on your phone whatever worksbest for you and write down what
you're afraid will happen ifyou start before you're ready.
Really, write it down.
Maybe you want to pause this.
Do a little brain dumping.
It doesn't have to be onesentence.
Let it be as much.
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As it's going to take to get itout of your brain.
I don't want you to just thinkabout it.
There's really somethingpowerful about getting it out of
your head and onto the paper.
So if you need to hit pause, goahead and then come back when
you're ready.
Okay, so assuming you've writtenthis down or put it on a phone
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note inside your iPhone, look atwhat you're afraid of, and then
I want you to ask yourself twoquestions.
The first one is what is theworst case scenario that could
realistically happen?
Make sure you use the wordrealistically when you ask
yourself this.
I want you to go down this road, go down the road of the worst
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case scenario, and every timeyou think you're at the end of
the road, ask yourself and thenwhat might happen?
And then what might happen andallow yourself to go to the
really dark place.
Happen and then what mighthappen, and allow yourself to go
to the really dark place.
Because what I'm hoping is goingto happen for you is, as you
get to the end of that worstcase scenario, you're going to
ask yourself question number two, and that is if that worst case
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scenario did happen, how wouldyou handle it?
Chances are, you probably havesome knowledge inside of you
that you know how you wouldhandle it.
And if you're stuck there,here's where AI can actually
help you.
Take those fears you wrote down.
I want you to paste them intoChatGPT or into Claude, and then
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I want you to put this promptin there Help me reality check
these fears what is the actuallikelihood of these scenarios
happening and what are somepractical ways I could handle
them if they did?
Because one thing AI is nevergoing to do it's sugarcoat it.
So you're going to get a reallybalanced response because you
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won't get the sugar coating, butit's also not going to
catastrophize things the way ourbrains do.
It's going to give you anobjective perspective, which is
what you actually need to seethat most of your worst case
scenarios either aren't that bador that you're more than
capable of handling whatevercomes up next.
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So I did this exercise about mypodcast.
When I first started thepodcast, I was really terrified
that people wouldn't think Iknew what I was talking about,
and I was really terrified thatthe people who knew me would
think less of me somehow wouldthink that I had.
You know I was trying to dosomething that I didn't know I
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was.
I don't know, I just I wasuncomfortable about putting
myself out there, and when I putthat fear into AI, it helped me
realize that even harshcriticism was just going to give
me data to improve, and thatwas literally the worst case
scenario that I was so afraid of.
So there is a way for us toovercome those fears and if
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we're stuck in that loopourselves, use AI.
Go through those prompts andsee how the AI can help you.
Okay, let's move on to somethingelse I want to talk to you guys
about, which is opportunitycost.
Every single day that you spendperfecting your plan is a day
that you're not building yourbusiness.
Every week that you spendresearching is a week that
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you're not serving.
We have customers to serve.
We have things that we need tobe out there doing.
Every month that you spendprepping is a month that you're
not generating revenue.
How about that?
Or making an impact.
I know for certain that a lot ofyou are doing what you're doing
because you are trying to makean impact.
It's what drives mostentrepreneurs.
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What's the impact you're tryingto make?
You can't make it behind yourdesk.
You can't make it in youroffice all day.
You need to be speaking topeople, be out there working
your business, serving yourcustomers.
Those opportunities, they dohave expiration dates.
The market conditions thatexist today while you're doing
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all your research.
If it takes you six months toput that into practice, those
market conditions are not goingto be the same thing six months
from now.
Those market conditions are notgoing to be the same thing six
months from now.
The problem you want to solvethere's a good chance it's going
to be solved by someone elsewhile you're still planning.
And the people who need whatyou offer, they're going to find
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a solution.
So why shouldn't it be yoursolution?
Because otherwise they're justgoing to be finding someone
else's solution while you'restill getting yours ready.
And I'm in no way saying thatyou need to be reckless.
I'm not saying just go for it.
You know, throw caution to thewind.
I'm saying that the cost ofover planning is higher than the
cost of starting imperfectly.
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So think about this what if youhad started your business idea
six months ago, even imperfectly?
Where would it be now?
Where would you be now?
What would you have learned?
How many people might you havehelped already?
You know there's that memeabout working out right and it
says you know, in six months,you'll have wished you started
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today.
It's the same thing when itcomes to our business.
We need to put good planninginto practice so that we don't
get stuck in these expensiveprocrastination planning loops.
And it actually is simpler thanwe think.
The first thing we need to do isget clarity on the problem
we're solving and who we'resolving it for, and then we want
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to put that hypothesis intoplace.
How are we going to solve it?
And then what is a plan fortesting?
Remember, last week I said, weknow, as entrepreneurs, that we
have to get clarity, get clearon who we're helping, get clear
on the problem we're helpingthem solve.
But how do we figure out how totest whether what we're doing
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is actually working?
Figure out how to test whetherwhat we're doing is actually
working and how do we committhat we're going to actually
learn from those results andpivot when we need to.
Everything else can get figuredout as we go along.
So let's figure out how to useAI as our secret weapon for
smart planning instead ofendless planning.
So, instead of planning weeks,weeks and weeks and weeks
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researching your target market,go into AI.
Today I want to solve thisproblem for this type of person?
What are the most importantquestions?
I should ask five potentialcustomers to validate this idea.
How easy is that?
Because those are the things weneed to do that market research
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and figure out who our targetmarket really is.
Instead of creating elaboratefinancial projections, let's use
AI.
Help me create a simple,one-page business model for your
idea.
Insert your idea there.
Where are the key assumptions Ineed to test first, let AI be
your friend.
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Let AI be your assistant.
When you want to research yourcompetitors, ask AI.
What are three simple ways Icould differentiate my business
idea in a crowded market.
Give it the names of yourcompetitors, if you need to.
If you don't know who yourcompetitors are, ask them.
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Ask AI to tell you here's whatI do, here's who I do it for,
who are the top 10 people thatare in my market that my target
market is going to, and then howdo I differentiate myself from
that crowded market?
Ai can give you 80% of thesolution in 20% of the time, and
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this is what's going to allowyou to spend your energy on the
thing that actually matters,which is testing your ideas with
real people.
The only thing that is evergoing to move your business
forward is sharing it withpeople.
I understand that you want toknow as much as you need to know
about it, but if I wanted toopen a pizzeria, I can't just
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sit in my kitchen by myselfcooking pizza all day and never
sharing it with other people.
If I wait until I think thepizza is perfect, all of those
people are going to go buy pizzasomewhere else.
Good planning is what gets youto action faster instead of
being so slow.
It reduces the friction betweenyour idea and your
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implementation.
This is what's going to helpyou start and not delay when you
actually start.
All of your planning, like Isaid last week, needs to fit on
one page.
It has to have a deadline.
Also, if your planning doesn'thave an end date, it's not
planning, it's procrastination.
To have a deadline also, ifyour planning doesn't have an
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end date, it's not planning,it's procrastination.
So get all of that on one pageand then put a date to when you
are going to put it out into theworld, because you know what
happens when you actually putsomething out into the world.
You get feedback real feedbackfrom real people, not the
imaginary feedback that you'regetting in your head where
you're saying, oh, this isn'tgood enough, because people
might think X, y, z, no, no, no,you're going to get real
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feedback, and real feedback isgold.
This is what tells you thatwhat is working for you and what
is not.
It shows you opportunities thatyou never would have thought of
on your own and it revealsproblems that you might not have
anticipated, and that's reallykey.
But here's the thing you cannotget real feedback when you're
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just in planning mode.
You can only get feedback onsomething that actually exists
and other people can interactwith, and this is why my fire
ready aim approach is so muchbetter than ready aim fire so
much better.
When you fire first.
When you put something out intothe world, the feedback you get
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helps you aim so much betterthe next time and I know we're
perfectionists, right, we getstuck in planning mode and the
whole approach feels wrong tofire first.
Every cell in your body is goingto be resisting what I'm
telling you to do today, becausewe want to resist putting
something imperfect out into theworld.
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But here's what I learned aboutmy perfectionism, and I learned
it the hard way.
It's not about high standards.
That's what we tell ourselvesOur perfectionism is.
It just needs to be exactly theway I want it.
It's not about high standards.
That's what we tell ourselvesOur perfectionism is.
It just needs to be exactly theway I want it right.
My standards are so high.
I just need it to be exactlythe way it needs to be.
No, come on, that's BS.
It's fear.
We're afraid of being judged,we're afraid of failing, we're
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afraid of not being good enough.
And perfectionism, as much aswe think it does, it doesn't
actually protect us from thosethings.
It just delays them, it makesthem feel bigger, makes them
feel scarier and it just makesit worse instead of better.
So the perfectionist they thinkthat they need to get it right
the first time.
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They can't do it until they'regoing to get it right.
But the pragmatist knows thatthey need to get started so that
they can learn how to get itright.
And that's what you need to be.
If you are a perfectionist, Iwant you to switch and become
pragmatic in how you approachthings.
The only way for you to do thatis imperfect practice.
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So here's a challenge for thisweek I want you to practice
being imperfect on purpose.
This is not about being sloppy.
It's not about being careless.
It's about building yourtolerance for putting things out
there before they're perfect.
And again, let's bring AI inand let AI help you get
comfortable with imperfection.
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So here are some AI-poweredways for you to practice this
Ask AI to help you write asocial media post about your
business and then post itwithout editing it 17 times.
You can fix punctuation here andthere.
Give it a once over.
Do not go over it 17 times.
Have AI help you draft an emailto your list and then send it,
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even if it's not perfect.
Use AI to create an outline fora piece of content and then
take action on that piece ofcontent.
Do it in one take.
Take that outline and recordyourself.
Create the content.
You can also ask AI for fiveconversation starters to reach
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out to potential customers.
And then guess what I want youto do?
Open up that iPhone, find fivepeople that are potential
customers and reach out to themtoday.
Use those conversation starters.
And last, you can use AI tohelp you brainstorm a simple
version of your product or yourservice.
So if you feel like what you'recreating is too big, bring it
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back to that MVP, the minimumviable product.
Use AI for this.
Here's what I'm creating.
I need to distill it down tosomething simple that I could
just get out to someoneimmediately.
The goal is for you to buildyour tolerance for imperfection,
because if you can't learn tobe imperfect in these small ways
, you're never going to take thebig imperfect action that
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actually builds your business.
So one thing I want to sayabout AI it is not going to give
you perfect content.
We'll get to you know how toprogram it and set it up and
teach it.
All of that that's a differentepisode, but just know it's not
going to give you perfectcontent.
It's going to give you goodenough content that you can
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improve and you can make yourown, and that's what you need to
break out of your perfectionism.
So I want you to think aboutall of this and then understand
that all of the people youadmire, the people with
successful businesses andconfident social media posts,
impressive revenue numbers, allthe things that you want for
your own business almost all ofthem started with plans that
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were nothing like what theyeventually built.
They started with one idea andended up somewhere completely
different.
They pivoted, they adjusted,they learned, they adapted.
I was listening to AmyPorterfield's podcast last week
and I don't know if you know whoshe is, but she has the Amy
Porterfield podcast.
It's all on marketing, reallygreat information.
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And anyway, she referenced howshe used to teach Facebook ads.
I never knew she did that, butthat was part of her journey in
the beginning.
And then she pivoted and didwhat she needed to do to become
the person that she is now.
So their success didn't comefrom following their original
plan perfectly.
It came from being willing tochange the plan based on what
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they learned along the way.
So stop trying to write theperfect plan for the business
that does not exist yet.
Start building somethingimperfectly and let it teach you
what your business actuallywants you to become.
So what's the next right stepfor you?
Not the next right plan, butjust the next right step.
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I would love for you to look atyour business idea, look at all
the planning you've been doingand then ask yourself what is
the smallest, simplest thing Icould do this week to test
whether this idea has legs?
Let AI help you.
Don't just think about what youcould do.
Use AI to help you.
If you want to offer a service,remember, ask AI.
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Help me write a simple messageI can send to three people
offering insert your servicehere for free in exchange for
feedback and then send thosemessages today.
If you have a product idea, askAI what's the simplest way I
could create a prototype ofinsert your product and what
materials should I use and thengo buy those materials this week
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?
Creating content Ask AI.
Give me five titles forarticles about whatever your
expertise area is.
That would help your targetaudience.
Pick one, write it and publishit this week.
If you want to start coaching,ask AI.
Help me create a simple30-minute coaching session
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outline for someone strugglingwith XYZ.
Whatever specific problem isthat you want to coach on, and
then offer that session tosomeone for free.
Open your phones, look for thepeople and connect with them.
Call them up, send them anemail or a text, ask them to
meet you for a coffee.
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This is how your business grows.
The key is using AI not to planmore, but to act faster.
Let AI handle the thinking soyou can just focus on the doing.
And I'm going to give you alittle tip After you take action
, go back to AI and ask I justtried, put in whatever it is
that you did.
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Here's what happened.
Put in the results of thefeedback that you got and then
ask what should I try next?
Ai can help you iterate quicklyinstead of going back into
planning mode.
So look, I totally get it.
This is scary stuff puttingyourself out there before you
feel ready.
It goes against everythingwe've been taught about how to
succeed.
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But how do you know that youare going to learn?
It's because you're going totake a perfect action, much more
than you'll ever learn fromperfect planning.
And there's something reallybeautiful about using AI in your
business too.
It removes so many of theexcuses that we use to keep
planning instead of doing.
You don't have to spend weeksresearching, because AI can give
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you the insight you need inseconds.
You don't have to agonize overperfect copy.
Ai can help you create copythat is just good enough so that
you can put the content outthere and improve as you go.
You don't have to haveeverything figured out.
Ai can help you problem solvein real time.
But please remember that the AIit's a tool for action.
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It's not another planning tool.
I don't want you to use AI tojust create more elaborate
business plans.
Use it to create fast, smartaction.
Your business is waiting foryou to build it.
It's not waiting for you tothink about it, and now you have
all of this information, all ofthese prompts for AI to help
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you build it faster than everbefore.
So I gave you your homework.
You're going to connect withpeople, and I want you to pick
one thing from today's episodeUse AI to help you do it Not
help you plan it, but thenactually do it and then share
with me.
I want to hear what you'rebuilding.
Send me the message onInstagram at solutionsbyjencody.
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Email is jen at jencodycom.
Tell me the action you took.
Tell me how AI helped you.
If you discovered somethingalong the way, share it.
People learn from otherpeople's experiences, and I love
hearing from yours.
So next week, we're going toget more into this and between
now and then, I want you to takethis information.
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Go out there, create the daythat you deserve, create your
day in the best way possible andcreate the business that you
are dreaming of.
Until then, take care ofyourselves, take care of each
other, and I will see you nextweek.
Remember, time is now to stopplanning and start doing.
See you next week.
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