Brendon Burchard and Evan discuss how feedback from a community transforms ideas before launch. Brendon recommends sending videos to 15-20 peers and testing presentations with small audiences. Evan runs a Toronto mastermind that meets monthly to share business challenges and wins, inspired by Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich.
Good morning, Believe Nation! Today's message is get constructive feedback. Over to you, Brendon Burchard.
You need to get in a community where you can get feedback. You need either a coach who can give you some direct one-to-one feedback or community of friends you just go out with. Maybe you go to lunch with them once a month once a month, you share everything you're doing, they give you some feedback. Or you shoot a video, you send that video out to everybody, get some feedback on it. You create a PowerPoint, practice it with 5 people before the big meeting. Like, get back in the game where you have a community of people who are giving you advanced feedback before you release it. Feedback before you do it so that you get smarter at all of this because you know what, nothing makes a dream come more into life than when you start getting feedback from other people about your movement toward the dreams. You know, before I shoot a big sales video for one of my online courses, I'll send it out to 15, 20 people and get feedback and then I'll often go reshoot it again, you know, or I'll put it out into my community and I'll see the clicks, the conversions and say, it's not, let's do it again. And it's that willingness to get feedback that will keep your dream alive because look, if it's just in your mind and you're just doing it by yourself, but you never actually get a positive community, giving you constructive feedback towards it, it will never be that, it will never be in the social realm. And when it is in the social realm, it feels more real, you know? When people actually comment, I mean, it's one thing to be an artist and in your studio painting for yourself all day, that's great. But once you get some feedback on it and constructive feedback, you become, you get that self-awareness and that social awareness to contribute and create at another level.
I love this message because I think a lot of entrepreneurs, we create in a vacuum. We don't get enough feedback on what we're doing, and we're not the best at everything. And so there's a lot of holes in your ideas, in your plans, in your execution. And if you don't talk to other people about how you can fix it and you can't afford to hire a team yet, then your business suffers. One of the things I found really helpful is I started a mastermind group here in Toronto for entrepreneurs And we meet every month and we get together, we talk about our businesses, we try to help each other out. I started that based off of Napoleon Hill's book Think and Grow Rich, where he talked about mastermind groups. I think it's something that's extremely valuable. I think a lot of entrepreneurs don't have enough other entrepreneurial friends that they can connect with and share experiences with. And so I'd highly encourage you, if you can find one in your local area or start one yourself, that it's a really valuable tool to help you broaden your skill set as well as keep you motivated because being around other entrepreneurs, there's something about it that gets you energized and excited. Another option is to join or start an online mastermind group, and I have one that a number of you guys are a part of. And what we do is meet up once a week, and it's a Facebook group. People post usually a video talking about what's going on in their business, what they need help with. We share a big win that's happened, we share what we need some feedback on, we share a resource that can help the other entrepreneurs. We set goals for the next month and then everybody submits replies and we try to help each other out. And I think being able to surround yourself with those kinds of people, like-minded individuals who have complementary skill sets, who can give you constructive feedback to help you grow, allows you to not create in a vacuum and also makes you feel like you're not alone in this. So my question of the day today for you guys is, I'm curious where you get constructive feedback from. Do you have family members who are entrepreneurs? Do you have friends who are entrepreneurs? Are you part of an online or in-person mastermind group? Is it something that you're— you want to be a part of? I'm really curious where you get that feedback from, or maybe you're not getting enough of it and you want more. Leave it in the comments below. I'm really curious to find out. Thank you so much for watching. Have an amazing day. Continue to believe, and I'll see you again tomorrow morning for another shot of espresso. I wake up every morning, espresso keep me going.
