Secrets To Success With Scott Carson From The Jessica Moore Show

Welcome back. This is Scott's bonus interview and we're going to jump right into your three secrets to success.

Well, I would say my big three secrets to success is you have to have a plan. That's the biggest thing. Not having a plan is planning to fail. And I'm not a big fan of creating like 10 year plans because it could change in 90 days. All right, so my big thing about success is if you plan for your assets at some goals, they gotta be smart goals. You know, you've got to have specific, they can be specific and they gotta be measurable, they've got to be attainable. You've got to be able to really track, track them and make sure be able to adjust as you rock and roll. So start with a year plan of what you want to go, but then break it down, reverse engineer it down into 90 day chunks. I don't say 30 days because we all know things can happen. Life can slap us across the face. Especially if you're trying to accomplish something on a side hustle, it's okay, give yourself a little respect. If your big goal is, hey, I need to lose some weight and you fall off because you have pizza one night, don't beat yourself up. Just get back on the horse and get rock and roll. So take your year long goals, plan something out, talk with somebody, find a mentor or somebody who's doing what you want to be doing or where you want to be and have them review your goals. That's always a big thing in your plan because they can often give you some advice and counsel to tweak that plan and have a lot more success. And then you may change, you may find it in 90 days. Oh, I really need to adjust my gameplay, make it bigger. I need to stretch myself. All right, so doing it one year and you miss. Okay, great, readjust it and go from there. You are. The biggest thing I could tell people if you have a plan is don't be too hard on yourself. You're going to have good days and bad days. The biggest thing about having a plan is it's something that's like you're a compass to guide you on your side hustle your day in, day out. What should you be doing today? And always, whether it's five minutes or five hours, just try to spend something a little bit each day and you'll save money. It's like my trainer always tells me, he's like, Scott, you don't have to go to the gym and spend two hours riding 20 miles. If you've got five or 10 minutes or 20 minutes to get out for a walk a day. That's a little bit. That's better than nothing, all right? So having a plan. You got to have a plan is the number one thing, okay? Big, big key to that. The second step of finding success is you have to surround your people. The right mindset. You got to get rid of people that have a negative, or as we like to say, the Debbie Downers, the. That have that stinking thinking out there. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Find people that have a positive mindset that their energy, but not just blowing smoke up your butt. Actual action takers versus talkers. Okay? So find people that are successful. Ask them what they did, their motivation, who inspired them. It might be reading more, it might be listening to more podcasts, but you have to make education a very focal part of what you're doing. If you're surrounded by people that might be your only lifeblood into programming the brain up here to start taking action, start thinking differently. So to find success, you have to do things differently than you've done in the past, okay? And so that's the next surrounding yourself. People finding, listening to what they're listening to, read what they're reading, spending time talking with them, picking up the phone, just talking to them a little bit goes a long way in today's world. It's hard because we're often kind of stuck in our houses or working from home and jumping on zoom calls or virtual networking. Virtual happy hours, I guess you could say, is one of the coolest things you can do, just to connect with those that are doing what you want to be doing or on that same path.

I think that's important because a lot of times people go into entrepreneurship and they want to do it alone. So I think it's very good that you mentioned just even having somebody review your goals and your ideas and before you even get into it, because we don't know what we don't know. So I think that's really important.

The third thing, and I'm going to say this, is either find an accountability partner or a coach, and you got to pay. I think coach, every coach I've ever paid for has been valuable along the way. And if you. If you can't afford a coach, find somebody who's doing the same thing that you're doing, maybe a different state or somebody in your neck of the woods, because you can row a boat a whole lot faster with two people than one person, all right? And if you can get two or three people, like a mastermind of people together that can meet, and you're all rolling in the same direction and delegating and doing different things. You'll find success a lot faster. You'll. You'll get overcome those simple mistakes or those hurdles, if anything, they become the person that helps you get you through that low spot when you've had a rough day or two. So finding an accountability partner or coach who's not just going to blow smoke up your butt, he's not going to just. It's really going to be honest with you, hey, man or hey y' all or gal. You're not doing the things you talk about doing. You set a priority of doing this. You're not doing the things you need to do, and you just gotta be. You got somebody that's gonna have a little tough love. I mean, we all need a coach like Rocky. Anything about Rocky? He had Mick. Now I'm doing some weird things, but that's. The people think coaches have been there and you can outgrow your coaches as you have success, you know, but the thing is. Thing is finding a coach, finding a mastermind group or an accountability partner, because you don't want to do this alone. As you said, Jessica, a lot of people got to do this alone. You don't have to do anything alone. There is so much power in having that other people to help you out there, that support group. Especially when if your family's not in a spot where your family or your friends are supporting what you're doing, you got to have that lifeblood.

Yeah. Yeah. And I think too, just as entrepreneurs, like, the things that I know, I was listening to a training where he said, he was talking about webinars, and they said, well, if I went out into the real world, they wouldn't know what I was even talking about. So, like, even with that, like understanding the language and different stuff. So I think that is. That's a really good one.

You know, that's like I said on the first interview, you know, you've got to understand, you got to educate yourself. You know. But in this world these days, there are so many Facebook groups of different niches. There are meetup groups, meetup.com. i mean, that's one of the biggest things that I try to do with leverage our business is I go find meetup or real estate clubs, networking clubs in specific cities across the country, and I tap into those. You know, those are resources for realtors or brokers or whatever you're looking for. Whatever your niche is there, you can find the same people in your hometown are across the country or different cities as well. So meetup group is a great thing to use. Leverage. There's entrepreneurship groups. There's, you know, there's all sorts of, I guess you could say, think tanks in some areas, stuff like that. There are also, you know, brain trusts and stuff like that that they're there to help support you. Here's the big thing, too. If you're an entrepreneurship and you're going out, go talk to your sba. Your Small Business Administration offices, they often have a lot of resources. And there's also a department called score S C O R E. I can't think of what it is, but it stands for Organization of Retired Executives. So if you go to the SCORE office, there may be a CEO who's retired, who's got years of experience that can mentor you or can help answer your questions and to put you in a whole different direction a whole lot faster, so that no matter what you're doing, they will often have experts in all sorts of niches or fields or can put you in the right spot. That's, I guess you could say, the fourth thing. It's just go to sba, go to score, Tell them what you're trying to do. And there's so many resources that each cities are putting together, the business administrations are putting together for people just like you and me out there, no matter what your level is.

Yeah, I've actually done it, too, so I know that that's a good one.

It is a good one. And most people don't know about it because I just don't know. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Well, thank you. Did you have anything else that you wanted to say to listeners before we wrap up?

The second I just say don't be afraid to take action. I mean, look, just get out there, take action. The world needs action takers. We don't. We have enough people that sit at home and complain and bitch and moan, okay? The world needs some positive light. You can be that light. You can be that spark that ignites a movement or a whole wave of success out there. If you get a chance to read a book, one of my favorite books to read is Tribes by Seth Godin. We all have tribes, people that surround us at our work, our job, our family, our friends. The world needs leaders, and we all have a tribe. So either you can lead your tribe or somebody else will. And I'm sure you'd rather it be you leading your tribe.

That was good. Well, thank you for being here. Like I said again, I know you have a busy schedule, especially what you have in an event coming up. I'm definitely grateful that you were able to take this time out. And just thanks everyone for watching and I will see you in the next video. Bye.