10,000 Hours

The 10,000 Hour Rule (Accept That All Actions Will Not Go Exactly The Way You Hope, But Consistency Over Time Leads to Mastery)

You've all heard me say over and over again that this business is a numbers game.  This business is about planting as many seeds as possible, and that the more seeds you plant, the more plants will grow.

So if we truly believe this then we will accept, without resistance, the fact that not all actions will result in outcomes exactly as we want.  You've probably all heard of the 10,000 hour rule.  It has been written, in various places, that you only "Master" an activity when you have put in 10,000 hours into the activity.  I believe that this is true in our business as well.  Nobody becomes a sustainable SSD, and makes a significant income in this business (which would cover all living expenses & more) without putting in significant time. 

I don't know if 10,000 is the exact number of hours but it is definitely close.  If you think of the time Meghann Dahl Clements and I have put into this business it comes close.  Meghann has been doing it almost full time for almost three years.  Based on my calculations she consistently puts in a 45-50 hour week in this business, minus the vacation time, which equates to about 2400 hours a year.  Three years of that is 7200 hours.  You add my part time work for the past three years, plus my full time work over the past couple months and we are very likely over the 10,000 hour mark. 

Kind of interesting that we probably only recently crossed this mark and only recently our income in Scentsy became sustainable to make this a full time thing for both of us... 

When you are putting in that amount of time, you are going to have to experiment with various actions.  Not all actions are going to go exactly as you planned.  This has been the case with Meghann and I over and over.  We have tried and tried and tried and tried new strategies.  Some work, some don't.  We figure out which ones work and then do more of those.  The key point in all of this is consistency.  We are consistently taking action. 

If there is one principle that I could stress above all others in this group is that consistent daily action is the key to success in this business.  You can't get discouraged if things don't work out exactly as you planned.  You just keep taking massive action, day in, day out - and sustain that action for years. 

Sounds simple but that truly is the path to SSD.  That is the path to making this business something special that provides you with the financial freedom that you want.