DON'T Start A Business, DO THIS FIRST!

Episode 113 of the The Journey with Zakk Colburn podcast, hosted by Zakk Colburn, titled "DON'T Start A Business, DO THIS FIRST!" was published on April 25, 2022 and runs 5 minutes.

April 25, 2022 ·5m · The Journey with Zakk Colburn

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Summary

Apply for The Personal Trainers Business Incubator: https://zakkcolburn.typeform.com/to/UDoxri Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zakkcolburn/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ZakkColburn/videos The Journey Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6T4hYvQB8CAVzpXn6tLzVm My Book Cutting Strings on Amazon:     https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0933MQRCZ?pf_rd_r=AKKS5XHRQV63Z1FVP9A7&pf_rd_p=5ae2c7f8-e0c6-4f35-9071-dc3240e894a8&pd_rd_r=972d9327-8a84-44ca-9bb1-a1fa78ec2cf2&pd_rd_w=oYdeY&pd_rd_wg=RZ2Xw&ref_=pd_gw_unk I have a very important lesson for anybody who is starting their entrepreneurial journey in 2022. This came from a personal experience that I just had visitng my brother in college. I got to speak to so many young people about their next steps in their lives and their first step in their career. I was honored to be able to speak to a lot of these people and give them advice, because personally, I was one who didn't go to college. I dropped out of community college to start my coaching business. There was many learning lessons that I learned along my journey that I was able to pass down to some of these kids who are about to enter the real world. One of those lessons was, do not start a business. If you want to start a business, the first step is to not start a business. The second step is to learn how to start a business. Then the third step is to start a business. And I learned this lesson the hard way. I would save up some money, invest it into starting a business and it would go NO WHERE. But once I started investing into courses and mentors, that is when everything shifted. The moment we're born, we have teachers. Our parents teach us how to walk. Our teachers teach us how to read and write. And then with work we have a boss. So our entire life we have had people who have been able to guide and mentor us through life to teach us how to live our life properly. So then why is it that when people enter the world of business, they think that they have to do it all by themselves? For myself, I got nowhere doing that. I was stubborn. I literally got no results. So my advice is just spend one to two years learning everything that you can from the people that you want to learn from. I would way rather see you spend $1,500 to $2,000 on courses and mentorship, then trying to start a business. Because if you spend one year learning from mentors how to successfully start a business you will be saving yourself thousands in the long run since you'll start right out of the gate correctly. Which is ultimately what you want. Do you want to build a successful business or do you just want to start a business that eventually crashes and burns because you have no idea where to go? For some reason, a lot of people are stubborn and they don't want to invest into a mentor because they think it's a risk or they think it's a scam. But the thing is, the people who are teaching people how to do the thing are teaching people for a reason because they know how to do the thing. And so if you want to do that thing, you have to go learn how to do that thing rather than trying to figure out how to do that thing on your own. So my advice to you is get an easy 9-5 job that will allow you to save up some money and invest into some courses and mentors to learn exactly what you want to do when you start your next business.

Episode Description

Apply for The Personal Trainers Business Incubator:

https://zakkcolburn.typeform.com/to/UDoxri

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zakkcolburn/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ZakkColburn/videos

The Journey Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6T4hYvQB8CAVzpXn6tLzVm

My Book Cutting Strings on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0933MQRCZ?pf_rd_r=AKKS5XHRQV63Z1FVP9A7&pf_rd_p=5ae2c7f8-e0c6-4f35-9071-dc3240e894a8&pd_rd_r=972d9327-8a84-44ca-9bb1-a1fa78ec2cf2&pd_rd_w=oYdeY&pd_rd_wg=RZ2Xw&ref_=pd_gw_unk

I have a very important lesson for anybody who is starting their entrepreneurial journey in 2022. This came from a personal experience that I just had visitng my brother in college. I got to speak to so many young people about their next steps in their lives and their first step in their career. I was honored to be able to speak to a lot of these people and give them advice, because personally, I was one who didn't go to college. I dropped out of community college to start my coaching business. There was many learning lessons that I learned along my journey that I was able to pass down to some of these kids who are about to enter the real world. One of those lessons was, do not start a business. If you want to start a business, the first step is to not start a business. The second step is to learn how to start a business. Then the third step is to start a business. And I learned this lesson the hard way. I would save up some money, invest it into starting a business and it would go NO WHERE. But once I started investing into courses and mentors, that is when everything shifted. The moment we're born, we have teachers. Our parents teach us how to walk. Our teachers teach us how to read and write. And then with work we have a boss. So our entire life we have had people who have been able to guide and mentor us through life to teach us how to live our life properly. So then why is it that when people enter the world of business, they think that they have to do it all by themselves? For myself, I got nowhere doing that. I was stubborn. I literally got no results. So my advice is just spend one to two years learning everything that you can from the people that you want to learn from. I would way rather see you spend $1,500 to $2,000 on courses and mentorship, then trying to start a business. Because if you spend one year learning from mentors how to successfully start a business you will be saving yourself thousands in the long run since you'll start right out of the gate correctly. Which is ultimately what you want. Do you want to build a successful business or do you just want to start a business that eventually crashes and burns because you have no idea where to go? For some reason, a lot of people are stubborn and they don't want to invest into a mentor because they think it's a risk or they think it's a scam. But the thing is, the people who are teaching people how to do the thing are teaching people for a reason because they know how to do the thing. And so if you want to do that thing, you have to go learn how to do that thing rather than trying to figure out how to do that thing on your own. So my advice to you is get an easy 9-5 job that will allow you to save up some money and invest into some courses and mentors to learn exactly what you want to do when you start your next business.