05/06/25 - Wakie Wakie 4:44

Welcome to Your 444 Newsletter!

Where data, action, and momentum collide.

Today’s Topic:
You don’t need to get it right. You just need to get it going.

If you're done playing small and tired of stalling out while trying to "perfect" everything, the serious entrepreneurs are already moving inside the Deal Maker Alliance.

Get in the room where real momentum happens.

Listen to the podcast now.

4 Thoughts to Reflect On

1. Most entrepreneurs lose years trying to "get it right" before they start. Smart ones just start.

2. Your fancy PowerPoint and color-coded Trello board don’t raise capital. Conversations do.

3. You can’t perfect something that doesn’t exist. Get it going so you have something to improve.

4. Doing the right work imperfectly beats doing the wrong work perfectly, every time.

4 Lessons I’ve Learned

1. People respect progress more than perfection.

2. Execution creates momentum.
   Ideas don’t.

3. Your data will always tell the truth.
   Your excuses never will.

4. Most of your delays are fear in disguise. 
   Call it what it is and move anyway.

4 Challenges for You This Week

1. Start the thing you’ve been overthinking. 
   Even if it’s messy.

2. Make 10 direct asks instead of building a better pitch deck.

3. Write down the result you’re trying to get and eliminate 3 tasks that don’t move you toward it.

4. Stop waiting.
   Go listen to this podcast episode and then take one action by the end of the day.

Listen now to the Making of a DM podcast

Perfect is where good ideas go to die.
Movement creates clarity.
Results come from doing.

Listen to the episode, then do the work.

Mark Evans DM