You know the one thing that stops most of us from trying something new?
Fear.
And because of it we tend to procrastinate and overthink things to the point that we never even start.
That’s why I launched a contest this week for students of my Velocity course, a course I created and launched in 24 hours to show people how they could do the same.
You see, I realise that another big problem is consumption without creation…better known as taking endless courses and staying an eternal student because it feels safer…
Rather than putting them into action!
Trust me, I know how scary it feels to try something out of my comfort zone but I find it far scarier to think what might have happened if I had never even tried.
Adding in an incentive like a contest in which you can win time with me helping you is one way of pulling people over that procrastination hump. It’s something you can try too if you want to really help people get results.
At the centre of Velocity is the concept of the Minimum Viable Product or MVP. I find that speed helps conquer fear and the MVP is a perfect way to combine speed with an almost immediate payoff so that you feel incentivised to do it again and again.
What is an MVP? What is says on the tin – the minimum version of something you can create that will genuinely serve as a solution for its intended audience.
The beauty of MVPs is that you can continue to build and enhance them into full-fledged medium and high-ticket courses by evolving them over time and using the feedback from the results you get.
I would encourage all of you to create an MVP, experienced product creator or not, because they force you to focus on what’s really important and I use the Velocity process for almost every new product I create (yes, I still get scared too!)
With that in mind, here are some great examples of MVPs:
https://mlsdev.com/blog/minimum-viable-product-examples
And here are 18 types of MVP:
Need some more ideas? Here are 10:
While here is an excellent podcast and post on one person’s life-changing experience of launching an MVP:
I’ve shared many no cost resources and tools for you to use in your MVP creation and you can find those here tagged as Weekend Takeaways.
To add to those, here is an excellent compilation of visual content creation tools for nada:
Enshrined within the concept of the MVP is the idea that it’s a launchpad from which you and it get better and better. Your TED talk this week is on how to get better at the things you care about:
