Motionless Week!

Hey guys it has been just over a week since I have posted on the blog. I have had one hard week! I found out a few things that threw me into the deep waters which I thought I would never return. However I have with the help of my partner Emma and WE are back stronger than before!

Sometimes the things we say to ourselves in our mind can be the thing that determines if you go forward, stagnate or worse go backwards! And we all know in life we want to go forward! Well last week I was stuck in a stagnant position. Like I said in my very first blog, this blog is all about my Trial and Tribulations that I go through so the YOU the readers can learn from me! Coming from nothing to being a success is the only goal that matters!

So the week that was! I was doing some research in regards to other products that are “up and comers” and product that could or are the competition to the product that I have created. I stumbled across one that I thought was it! all the way from silicon valley with some big players behind it. You can imagine this made me feel down as your product is your baby.

The whole week I was wrapped up thinking about this product and NOT my own, I was stuck. Everything I thought or had a conversation about was negatively worded, and un productive. I was constantly having and emotional connection with this other product and my emotions got the better of me. My partner Emma took me back to step one! Focus on what you are doing and not what others are doing! This product may sound similar but is different, stop thinking about it!

Research and Market validation is great, But DO NOT hang up on what you find! See it for what it is and see where you differ and that is your competitive advantage!

This week is when we will make it happen I have refocused and we have our plan of attack and we won’t stop until we have reached it. Treading new water everyday to make it happen.

Accept the challenge starting a business is not easy! Especially if you are on your own! Find the people who can help you and ask for help, do not be afraid to put yourself out there start walking the talk and get your business started.

4 Steps to help not get to the stagnant place I was;

1.       Have your goal in mind and write down what it is

2.       Plan backwards on what you want to do

3.       Take baby steps everyday! And Trust the process

4.       Everybody is only interested in what THEY are doing so mind YOUR own business

Approach every opportunity like it the BIG one! When you stick 120% into what you do good things happen! Never ever put a mediocre effort into ANYTHING you do!

Can you Invest your time and effort in what you want to achieve at 120% all the time?

Plan Big

Invest Big

Get the Opportunity “Show up”

Get what you have dreamt

So what does mean for myself! Yea I have hit a wall! But I am better for it! Life is funny how you always learn the lesson after the fact, Learn and keep moving forward

Would you guys like to know anything? Don’t hesitate to leave a comment!

M

Lay ONE Brick at a Time

There is a story that Will Smith tells of his childhood about the wall. One summer Wills father tore down a brick wall in the front of his business and told 12 year old Will and his 9 year old brother to rebuild it, a job they said was IMPOSSIBLE! it took them a year and a half but they did it, his Father said now don't you ever tell me there's something you cant do.

Will Smith says " you don't try to build a wall, you don't set out to build a wall you don't say I'm going to build the biggest baddest wall that has ever been built, you don't start there. You say I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. You do that everyday single day and soon you have a wall!"

How does the above story relate to Business? Well being able to pull the BIG picture apart into manageable pieces is exactly where I am currently. I have this product idea for video Identification that has been thought up, I can see the finished product in my head BUT how do I get there?

Like Will Smith I have to lay my bricks, I have been laying bricks and building this product since November 2011. Breaking the tasks at hand into manageable pieces and attacking them until completion.

Investment

The other week I said enough is enough, the project had hit a wall and there was little movement in any direction - the problem capital. We had realised that there needed to be help from the outside as this is all new technology that needs to be built very capital intensive. After approaching some seed investment companies, I received a prompt email from one of the companies I approached. They wanted to know more about the product, how it works, how it will generate revenue etc. I replied with a big word document for filling their questions within the next couple of hours, then the wait began...

A few days later i was meet with a reply! surprisingly it was not a what I expected, it was a very good email. And so I continue to bring the product into fruition through laying each brick at a time.. soon I'll have my WALL.

I hope you get something out of this blog today! if you haven't reached your dream yet keep going and give 100% at everything you do and soon you will have your wall too!

M

Inception

Hey All

Thanks for Stopping by and reading this blog! 

I'm Mark from little New Zealand! this blog is the Inception

This is why the blog is called Excess2Success, starting from where I think I am, Employee - to where I will be a Business success! hopefully not just with one company but many!

I have been meaning for a few months now to start a blog on my Trials and Tribulations at trying to grab my dreams in the realm of business! You see I AM a creator, its been proven at work we all took a test that was meant to establish your working character so that we could all be better aligned with what we enjoy doing. The results for me was Creativity was the highest 40 odd percent, productivity a measly 4 percent  - don't get me wrong I was very productive just in a different way, this way was later the new way that everybody followed.

Enough about work!

This blog is about my trials and tribulations in the realm of business! you see I have an excessive drive to create and develop my ideas! I have a long list on my Ipod of my dreams that have been validated or are waiting until i meet the right contacts to speak these ideas into fruition.

This blogs first Idea that is going through the works is in regards to Video Identification! 

- Idea thought up on a Cruise ship in New Caledonia 

Once back in NZ I used what I had thought up and approached a (contract) developer at my work, I had talked to him many times before - up with technology, knows what he wants and most of all we definitely get along!  

The Coffee

We managed to get out of work at lunch and went for a chat about this idea, within 10 minuets ( I don't even think it was that long) we had gone from an product idea with little commercial viability to an product idea that could possibly change the way people do this task for the better. We agreed to have weekly meetings and assigned tasks that we needed to have done, even with full time jobs we always found time to get the business done so to speak haha.

1 month passed, We had developed the product idea MORE and we had gotten to the point where we need capital....

I'll leave it there for the first post! if you find this interesting please keep coming back, I'll be aiming to update this blog a couple times a week! at worst once a week!