1. You’re Thinking Too Much and Doing Too Little
The Problem: Overthinking Is Your Full-Time Job
You’ve got 14 notebooks, 32 Chrome tabs, and a bullet journal crying in the corner. Your brain is amazing… but it’s also sabotaging you with spreadsheets and spirals!
Meanwhile, Brilliant Barb launched a course called “Make Money By Breathing”
(Brilliant Barb still remembers those halcyon days of when IBM paid me $65/home to sysadminize for a different department than my Bell Labs nirvana (obviously) … and at 8:30am would let me work from home for the rest of the day. That glorious gig lasted 4 months and I still remember it (and my first paycheck of 23K after months of wrangling) quite vividly)
and sold 319 copies while you were still choosing fonts.
The Fix: Action First, Pretty Later
Launch ugly. Sell it before it’s perfect. Smart folks stall waiting for flawless – but money doesn’t reward perfect. It rewards visible offers.
Put up the buy button. Send the scrappy email. Post the clunky thing.
Then go dance in your kitchen yelling “I sell stuff now!” because you, dear reader, have ARRIVED.
2. You’re Too Focused on Being Right, Not Being Seen
The Problem: You’re a Ninja Genius… Hiding in the Shadows
You’ve got better ideas than 93% of the people online, but guess what? Visibility beats IQ every single day.
While you’re crafting the perfect tagline, Doris Dull is livestreaming her 4th cat-scented candle reveal and cashing in bigtime.
The Fix: Show Up Messy and Often
Stop trying to win the Nobel Prize for Flawless Content!
Post the thing! Share your offer. Say it louder than your self-doubt.
Be wrong, be weird, be real – just be out there.
People pay who they remember. Not who had the best PowerPoint (sob).
3. You’re Waiting for Approval That Never Comes
The Problem: You’re Secretly Hoping for a Gold Star
Deep down, you’re waiting for someone to tap you on the head with a wand and say, “You may now be successful.” But sadly, the Internet is not Moosewarts.
The people making money didn’t get permission (fancy that)! They just declared it was happening and built their castle out of duct tape and emojis.
The Fix: Appoint Yourself as CEO of ‘Do It Anyway’
Nobody’s coming to validate your genius. That’s your job now.
Create your stuff. Launch your thing. Make your money!
Approval is optional. Deposits are better.
4. You’re Learning… But Not Earning
The Problem: You’ve Enrolled in 82 Courses and Finished Maybe Two
Look, we’ve all done it. You grab that shiny $9.97 training on “Magnetic Moose Money,” swear it’s the one that’ll change everything…
… and then never open it.
Meanwhile, Clueless Carla watched one YouTube short and now she’s got a $2,000-a-month Patreon where she narrates her grocery lists.
Talk about making money while planning the evening meal!
The Fix: Learn Less, Implement More
Pick ONE strategy. One. Not 317. Not 7. ONE.
Take one tiny action that involves a BUY button or a SUBMIT form.
Courses don’t make money. Actions do.
You can’t deposit “watched 11 webinars” into your bank account. But you can deposit the profits from “sold a thing.”
5. You’re Trying to Invent a Unicorn Instead of Solving a Real Problem
The Problem: You Want to Be Original More Than You Want to Be Profitable
You’re out there trying to build the next Uber for Beekeepers or write a PLR set for Time-Traveling Dentists. Meanwhile, Dan Down-the-Street made $6K last month selling Canva templates… for bingo night.
The Fix: Solve a Painful, Boring, Payable Problem
If people yell “TAKE MY MONEY” to a solution, they don’t care if it’s sparkly.
Skip the glitter. Sell the fix.
Money follows utility. Not uniqueness. Especially when you’re still trying to pay off your llama costume side hustle.
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You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll say to yourself, “Jeepers self, why did I spend thousands on all other guru promises when Barb offered this for free?”
Enjoy!
ps – this post was inspired by this incredibly grand video by Vincent Chan – highly recommended!!
You can find his channel here.
