Be LIKE Water! | Top 10 Business Tips

Good morning, Believe Nation! If you've got this big vision for your business and it's not quite working out as you planned and you've got to make some changes, I'm going to share with you an inspiring clip from Bruce Lee that I think will help.

I said empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

So in the business world, you have to be like water too. And what that means is you have to be flexible with your plan. What a lot of entrepreneurs do, and I did this too in my first business, you have this big vision for your company, which is great, but then you get stuck on the how and and you say, "This is how I'm going to do it." And it's rarely the right plan. The plan that you think you're going to start with is rarely the plan you actually end up being with. And those companies that make it are the ones that are like water, that are willing and flexible and able to change. I remember in my first business, the most complex feature in our software was something that took months to develop and ended up being something that our customers didn't care about. And while that hurt, you know, we thought, "Hey, this is going to be a great feature." It was because we didn't listen to the customers and we weren't flexible flexible enough to change our product in time, and luckily there was enough other great features in it that people would still buy it, but we could have had a much bigger impact if we were more flexible, we were more like water, sooner. At the same time in that business, I spent an entire summer working on my business plan and then realized as soon as we launched that a lot of my assumptions were wrong, and it could have been a much better business plan and we could have gotten results a lot faster if I had just tested some of these assumptions, if I had gone out and started talking to customers and gotten their their feedback to make our business better. So the point is, it's important to have a plan. It's important to have a big vision, an important mission. Say, here's what I want to change in the world, here's the type of company that I want to build, but don't get so locked up on the how because your plans will change and change and change and change. And as long as you're getting closer to your goal, continue to be like water and it'll make a huge impact on your business. So the question of the day for you today is, I want to know how you've had to adapt, how you've had to change, how you've had to be like water in your business. Leave a Put it in the comments below. I'm gonna join in the discussion, and I'm really curious to see what you have to say. Thank you so much for watching. Continue to believe. Have an amazing day, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of enespresso.