#1027: Messy progress is still progress: the power of staying in motion

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Jim Cockrum

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4.8 • 805 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this inspiring episode of Silent Sales Machine Radio, coaches Brian and Robin Joy return from a summer break with powerful stories from recent coaching sessions. The message is clear: success doesn't require perfection—just consistent, imperfect action.

Whether you're struggling to hit that first stride or doubting your next step, this episode will reignite your motivation. Hear how simple weekly challenges, embracing the "messy middle," and staying in motion can double your business—even through vacations, setbacks, and self-doubt.

You'll learn how to:

Embrace “good enough” to gain momentum
Use small daily actions to achieve big goals
Apply the "Rule of 100" to outpace 95% of your competition
Replace hesitation with clarity through practice
Build sustainable systems around your life (not the other way around)

Packed with practical wisdom, personal anecdotes, and actionable challenges, this episode is your reminder to stop waiting—and start doing.

Listen now and take the next imperfect step toward your dream business.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Silent Sales Machine Radio. We are your co-host. I'm Brian. And I'm Robin Joy.
0:06.9	And this is Coach's Corner.
0:08.5	Hi, everybody. It's so good to be back. I know we took a couple of weeks off. We had some family vacations.
0:14.6	We missed you. I'm happy to be back. But we had a great summer as well, a great summer of doing fun things.
0:23.6	Well, the summer's not over. I mean, really, at this point, we're recording summer just getting
0:27.2	started. That's true. It hasn't even been the last four weeks, basically, mostly away from home.
0:33.4	Yeah. We did get back for a short period of time to create that WPA's episode that we did
0:39.3	about the Proving Conference.
0:40.6	That's true.
0:41.1	But this is the first episode post that.
0:44.3	So.
0:45.1	So let's talk about today.
0:46.9	We have also been having some really good coaching sessions with our coaching clients in the last couple of weeks.
0:55.4	Brian, you had a few that you wanted to share some of the concepts that came up during those. Tell us what's been going on
0:59.9	with you and your coaching. Well, you know, you and I talk about the way that people make
1:05.9	progress in this business a lot. And really, I say this business, I think in most cases, it applies to most
1:14.7	businesses, right? Absolutely. Most initiatives that you're trying to take up and spin up and bootstrap
1:20.8	and get going and stuff like that. But one of the things that seems to be a common theme,
1:25.1	and this is why you really like to hammer at home, especially in the workshop,
1:28.3	which is, you know, be in motion as opposed to waiting for the perfect time.
1:33.2	Yeah.
1:33.6	Because being in motion is going to,
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