Aug 12, 2026
Doing it before you're ready
In this week’s episode, I’m talking about doing things before you’re ready.
When I joined the direct selling industry back in 2005, I certainly wasn’t ready. I’d bought a kit to earn a little bit of extra money, give myself a bit of my life back after having children and, if I’m honest, escape from just being Mum for a little while. I had no business experience and didn’t really know what I was doing.
But I joined anyway.
Then somebody asked to join my team before I knew how to look after somebody. Social media came along before I knew how to use it. People in my team started asking me how to recruit before I really understood how I was recruiting people myself. At every stage, I ended up having to learn by doing the thing before I felt ready to do it.
I also share the story of going for my first incentive trip in 2009. I didn’t achieve it. I made plenty of mistakes, didn’t plan properly and didn’t really understand what it was going to take. But because I went for it anyway, I knew what to do differently the following year, and in 2010, I achieved an amazing trip to Hong Kong.
That experience has repeated itself throughout my business. I’ve invested in coaching before I was ready, gone for leadership levels before I was ready, started this podcast before I knew how to make a podcast and tried plenty of other things without really knowing what I was doing.
Because you don’t learn from not doing the thing. You learn from trying it, getting things wrong, tweaking them and having another go.
So I want you to have a think about the thing in your business that you’re waiting until you’re ready to do. Pick one thing and go and do it. You might get it wrong. It might not go smoothly. But you’ll learn far more from doing it than you ever will from waiting for the perfect time.
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