INS05 - Fish Out Of Water with Calvin Wayman

Calvin Wayman is a professional speaker and social media entrepreneur, and is the best selling author of Fish Out of Water: The Guide To Achieving Breakthrough & Permanently Transforming Into A New You.

He’s been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, The Huffington Post, Social Media Examiner and was named one of the Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under the age of 30 by Influence.com

Calvin is also CEO of a very successful social media company – COBBESMEDIA and today he helps explain that there are no secrets in business; the answers are all in front of you, you just need to know where to look.

Episode Highlights:

When Calvin started his sales career he managed to hold the record for being the worst sales person in the company. Not a record he was proud of, but by studying high-level performers and the successful habits of others, he was able to turn this around and become a top achiever himself. Everything new is uncomfortable: You must accept this feeling as being normal, however many don’t and the tragedy is two-fold; 1) People think there’s something wrong with them and 2) they think there’s a secret they don’t know about yet. This is when people feel like a fish out of water, but eventually you can move from a guppy to a shark if you keep going and never give up. Modeling: You need to model the people who have the results you want, however just modeling won’t fix the problem immediately, there’s a lot of repetition involved once you understand the basic skills. Riding a Bike: All children will learn to ride a bike because their desire to ride is far greater than their fear of failing or falling off…in fact they have no fear of failure because their why is so strong. Why it changes as adults: We worry what other people think and we tend to value others peoples opinion over our own. The School System: Is set up ‘telling us’ that failing is bad…therefore once we leave school and become adults the thought of failure scares us. We can’t fail if we don’t try…but this is not right. Here’s the good news: Once you ‘get it’, you just get it. Success is just like learning to ride the bike; you can’t unlearn it once you know how. Once you become a Shark, you can’t go back and be a Guppy. This is called THE NEW NORMAL

CONSISTENT IMPERFECT ACTION - CIA

Most people are afraid of messing up so they stay on the sidelines, which is sad. If you wait until you’re ready before you make a move, you’ll never move. If you wait until it’s perfect timing to take action, you’ll never take action. Therefore you’ve got to keep moving forward by doing consistent imperfect action.

“Done Is Better Than Perfect”.

Check out some of Gary Vaynerchuk’s early videos and you’ll see that he didn’t wait until he was perfect to get started…and look at him today. It may be hard to see yourself being paid $120k for a talk like Gary V gets paid today, but can you see yourself being imperfect on stage? If you can, then that’s where you start today; it’s not about being perfect. My podcast is a perfect example of consistent imperfect action. Too often we see where successful people are now and not where they’ve been or where they started.

GET SCHOOLED

Most people want to improve their health, finances etc, but we’re often by our selves most of the time, therefore you need to get schooled and be with others with a similar mindset. You need to get around other people that are doing what you want to do.

By hanging around people with similar goals and aspirations you can’t help but travel in the same direction…just like a school of fish. Mastermind groups, running groups, etc, they will push you and help you create the new normal.

You need to attend 2 and 3-Day events that will attract the type of people you want to associate with. Or join an online business course that has an associated mastermind group on FACEBOOK.

SWIM LIKE A SHARK – This is all about Modeling. The sharks are the super-successful people you know (discussed earlier)

The advantage of writing a book is it separates you from everyone else in your space. You become an authority and it is a great leverage tool for you personally and for your business.

In 2015 Calvin threw in the safety of his job to become an entrepreneur, without any specific plans, which sounds ballsy, but that’s not how Calvin saw it at the time.

The fear of not trying was much scarier than throwing in his job and going balls to the wall. He would rather face himself over failure than face himself over regret. What’s the worst possible scenario if you take a chance? Can you live with the consequence? If you can, the risk is worth taking.

Calvin’s website: http://www.calvinwayman.com/

Fish Out of Water: http://www.calvinwayman.com/book/

Social Media Makeover (FREE) http://www.calvinwayman.com/makeover

My website: https://www.tysonfranklin.com/