Ted Chan

I was supposed to be on a call with my mastermind group yesterday. Well, I went to dial in at the set time of 5:30 PDT or 8:30 EDT. So I dial the number and put in the pin code, expecting to have a great session with my mastermind group. Well, I hear the conference recording lady “You are the first caller”.

Hmmh…no one else is on. that’s strange, so I think I might be early or something. I hang up and go about my business and call back in again in 5 minutes. I get the same thing “You are the first caller”. Music plays in the background.

Hmm…this is really strange. There are usualy 5 or 6 people in the mastermind group, so I figure someone should be on the phone. Then I remember, we’re going to be trying out a new webinar software. We had tried it out a couple weeks ago, but had some problems getting everything configured. So we were going to have another go at it. I was excited about being able to try out the new webinar software and just share with my mastermind group. So I look through some old emails to find the link to this new software. Nope, no one is there either.

Well, I hang up, wait another 10 minutes and call in a third time…Still no one else is on. By this time, I’m pretty frustrated. I was all excited about getting on the phone and doing the mastermind and trying out this webinar software. And I can’t get the phone to call through. So I wrote an email to the mastermind group outlining the phone number, pin code, and link that I had tried to use to get in contact with them.

A couple hours later I receive an email back from one of the people in my mastermind group. Let’s say the phone number was 530-298-45xx and the pin code was 89537#. So what had I been dialing the whole time? 9537#. No wonder why I couldn’t get through. I was missing a number in the code. It was so frustrating. I was trying so hard to get through and no matter how hard I would have tried doing the same thing over and over I would never had connected with my mastermind group.

How true is that in our daily lives? We keep trying to do the same thing over and over and expect different results. Do you know the quote?

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
-Albert Einstein

Just that one number was keeping me from getting through. So what I could have done was check the phone number and pin code again to make sure I had it right. Different action, different results. But the most important thing is taking the right action to get the right place; not just taking random actions and looking for different results.

So the next question is how do we take the right action?

Tune in next time to find out how we can take the right action.