" Are You Slow To Revise Or Reverse An Important Decision?' by the Butterfly Marketing Team, the Most Effective Internet Marketers Today, Mike Filsaime, Paulie Sabol, Donna Fox and Tom Beal"
21. Are you slow to revise or reverse an important decision?
Mike Filsaime: That’s correct. Yes I think that when you believe something is right in your heart, don’t listen to everybody. Take everybody’s advice into consideration. That’s a good question. You see we are on a ship and we are going to the new world. We don’t know exactly where it is but we know it’s there.
We have our captains and other people that are helping us and telling us “Our calculations show us that the wind is blowing us this way. We need to shift our direction two degrees.” That doesn’t mean you have to stand firm with your feet dead in cement once you’ve made your decision.
You want to stay along the same path and make small changes along the path that you believe is right. But don’t just do a complete 180 degrees because at that point you are going to get lost in the ocean and just sink.
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Paulie Sabol: I am slow to do so. In fact, the universe is slow to do so. There is the natural law of inertia that tells us that a body at rest tends to stay at rest, while a body in motion tends to stay in uniform motion unless acted upon by an outside force.
So this is the way that I apply it. I am slow to change a decision until there is an outside force. Now my recommendation is if you can get the outside force in a feather, if you can get the message way ahead of the game, and you can adjust and course correct, do so.
Because very often, if you don’t get it in the feather, you’re going to get it in the Mack truck. The outside force of the Mack truck, which is kind of metaphorically saying, you will continue to make the same mistake, and more of the same results, and perhaps higher impact from those results, until you do change.
So while it is valuable to stick with long term, even through the downsides and the occasional disappointments of a system that works, it makes good sense to quickly change your mind, and as quickly as possible when the results are not fulfilling and are not what you want.
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Donna Fox: Gosh, such a great question! I like to think that I can recognize when I’m being fearful of a decision that I’ve made the wrong decision versus knowing that I’ve made the wrong decision. But who really knows?
I think it’s important to have flexibility. Thankfully, as internet marketers, we have a lot of flexibility built into our lifestyle. We have this phrase in our business where we start to vacillate abut a decision. We simply say, “It’s testable.” That is ultimately what it is about.
Who cares if I have made the right decision? It’s more important that I have made a decision to go forward. And if I want to question the decision, in most cases it’s something that I can test and let the market decide who is right.
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TOM BEAL: It changes with information. For instance I can make a decision right now based on the information I have and believe it whole heartedly and would die for that decision but then new information may come up. If new information comes up that turns the table on it then you can decide again or choose differently.
But obviously for ethics, beliefs and honestly you have to have a foundation on those. Otherwise if new information arises I’m open to hear. If I’m walking this way and somebody says I can walk this way and get different results I’m willing to hear them. But based upon that I can continue to walk in the direction I’m in or choose to go off a little bit.
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