Hey guys, welcome to another E-com Insiders Mind Hack Monday. I’m Dr. Nic and as I’m getting to know you I’m going to begin to let loose a little bit more. I enjoy these and you’ve been giving me great feedback so I want to share some great things with you today. Look this is a photo that’s my father, older brother and sister and that’s me a little guy there. Now I can’t tell you how humble the beginnings were. A lot of you will share the story that’s why we can relate because we had nothing. We really had nothing. Well that’s such not true this house is actually a house that we owned before my father decided that he wanted to become a full-time minister. He left his job where he worked for a building company and he became the minister of a church in some country town in Australia in the outback. There was no income. The income was literally what people would put in the plate as they shared the plate around to people on a Sunday morning collecting tithes. He’d have to do this sales pitch. I remember as a kid having him trying to use the Bible and he motivate people and inspire them to give a 10% of their income into the plate because that’s literally what we had to live on. So, I lived in hand-me-downs. We would have a knock on the door and we’d run to the door and they’d be known there and there’d be a box of groceries because someone in the church knew we had no groceries for that week. They would go and buy groceries for us to have. So, that’s my entire childhood.
We went to I went to nine different schools because we moved around so much. My brother and sister they experienced a little bit of security before my father made that choice. All I remember is the very lean. Toys for Christmas, there were hardly any. All that sort of stuff it was just a struggle. So, there’s no wonder after going to nine schools that I dropped out. So, my first PhD was a public high school dropout because I didn’t know how to learn all I knew how to do was play music because I had learnt in the church I’d grown up learning how to do that so I could do music that was all I was good at school. The Math, English and the Geography, science and the physics it just made my brain hurt. I was utter crap at school. I felt useless at school. I felt worthless at school. All I knew how to do was run fast and play the drums. There was no point me going to university or doing anything like that so I dropped out to be a muso.
Now why am I telling you all this? How does it relate to the mind hack? I want to show you what’s possible. Now I’ve got this stuff like this. Here’s a degree I’ve got like as an adult. I decided to go back to university. So, I had to go back to school. I had to go back to school as an adult just to finish high school and then I managed to get into university. I don’t know why. I’m obviously a fraud because I’m hopeless so somehow they let me in and I spent the whole time freaking out that one person in the admin was going to discover that somehow I shouldn’t have been at university and was going to boot me out. I managed to graduate before they found out that I was a fraud. Here’s my science degree there’s one. But I learned how to learn. I learnt something that I’m going to teach you about in this video, this mind hack is what I learnt.
Let’s look at another one here. After that it’s my Graduate Diploma in clinical epidemiology. Then I went on master’s degree in health science another two years full-time. I kept going loved it. By this time I was an entrepreneur and I was lecturing and started businesses, but I was still studying. Here we got a master’s degree in pain medicine another one. Then finally the fifth one here Doctor of Philosophy PhD in physical medical diagnosis. Look at that a photograph. How did I get these? I can tell you right now it’s not because I’m smarter than you. I’m not smarter than anybody, but I learned one thing and it is up on this board here SDNT.
The first the ‘S’ stands for Start. Now we are all starters in this group you are a starter. There is absolutely no doubt about it. I absolutely on you when you’ve started a business and online store you’re figuring out how to do themes, Shopify and ads and it’s all freaking hard stuff to learn, especially if you haven’t come from that world. But you have to do things with product, finding products, finding angles and now you got to learn email marketing and behavioral remarketing. You’ve got to learn about Releo and bio dice sequences and you’ve got to learn a gazillion other things. You’ve started that’s awesome, but I’m going to tell you about starting. You know that finishing is what matters and there’s a saying out there that I’ve always thought was complete and utter crap and that is that turning up is half halfway there. No, it’s not turning up is freaking nowhere that is we’re turning up is. Turning up is nowhere. Turning up is half the work. No, it’s not turning up is nowhere. Just showing up isn’t enough. You have to finish.
Now here’s the mind hack. Are you ready? You have to start to finish. I don’t mean starting the whole process. I mean the end bit; the finished bit. Break that into its little segment and figure out that you need to start the finish. Start the end part that is the way you complete tasks. That is the way you complete and you implement something that then works and has an impact on your business. There’s the start and there’s the finish so you have to start the start, but then you’ve got to start the finish. You have to start the finish in order to finish the project and order to finish the task and starting to finish is a skill. Right now hands up virtually how many people have a whole bunch of unfinished tasks? How many people have an ad campaign that they started and didn’t really follow through? How many people have a lead magnet they’d be created, but they didn’t really finish it? How many people have a landing page they started, but it’s sitting there and it’s not really done? How many people started to do conversion rate optimization, but didn’t finish it? How many people have started the split-testing emails, but didn’t really finish it? You started. I know you’re a starter and that puts you so far ahead of people who don’t start at all. Guess where it puts you if you don’t finish? Being able to start, but not finish put you in nowhere. The way to get out of nowhere is to start the finish.
So, this is what I want you to do because I know you already have the skill to start it means I know that you can start the finish. I know that you’re a starter. So, that’s what you’ve got to do when you get stuck when you have this energy and this enthusiasm to try something and start it and you ask someone who can implement, you need to implement all the way through to the finish; you need to finish. You need to be able to finish five freaking degrees even though you’re a high school dropout. Now you don’t have to finish degrees right it’s the equivalent of this. It’s the equivalent of starting a project that is long term and finishing it. Start to finish to finish the task. Start to finish to finish the task. Start to finish to finish the task. Start to finish the finish the task. Start to finish to finish the task. If you do that things will get done and its way more better to get things done get one thing done than have ten things unfinished. I’m sure you agree.
I tell you what the amount of stress and mental energy that you have to put into your mind over projects that are unfinished are open loops in your brain; they are taking up. There’s a thing called ‘Allostatic Load’ and what it is it’s like a cup that’s full and it’s like stress. Your cup is full of all these unfinished tasks. You can empty it by finishing the task or ditching it. If you’re not going to finish it ditch it. If you’re not going to finish it ditch it or start to finish to finish the task. Start to finish to finish the task.
SDNT, well I’m going to break this out over a couple of videos. I’m just talking about starting. Starting is an amazing mind hack, starting is freaking awesome. Starting to finish is even better. I’m going to tell you what the ‘D’ at the end and the ‘T’ is in another video. Over and out– Oh by the way leave a comment and let me know, engage with me and let me know you like this. If you like this and want me to get in your face, share mind hacks with you that actually make a difference I will keep doing it. The more you engage with me the more. I will give catch soon.