Best of This Week: March 11th

**Sam Parr** (0:13)
Hello and welcome to another episode of My First Million, Best of the Week edition. This is Ben Wilson. Best of the Week brings you some of the best moments from this week's past episodes. No new content, just revisiting the hits.
This week, we've got some great ones for you. First off, we've got Steph Smith joining Sam and Shaan to discuss something that Shaan calls the A-B-Z framework and why you should just get started on whatever project you want to work on. Instead of over-analyzing, give it a listen.

**Steph Smith** (0:39)
Sam, I think you do this really well when people, I've seen people come to you and they're like, Sam, I'm thinking of starting this business and I want to cover this topic and I want to blog and all this stuff and you're like, all right, what's your first step? Or you'll be like, just write or something like that which just simplifies to the idiot Jedi, just do the thing, not over-analyzing the 50 startup articles.

**Shaan Puri** (1:03)
It's when Sam says, dog, you just need to do this. He goes, Randy Jackson on them.

**Sam Parr** (1:09)
Well, I just get frustrated because I think that it's good. If building a business is step zero to 10 and 10 is like, you're this billionaire or your vision has been achieved. You own all this property, whatever it is. It's good to have number 10
And then a lot of people are like, all right, that's step number 10 And then steps three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, I got to figure those out. In my mind, I'm like, no. Well, the only thing that's important is 10 and one.
And after you get done with one, you'll figure out number two. But until you get to number two, don't even think about worrying about number three. It's not important.

**Shaan Puri** (1:42)
Dude, I have the same exact thing. I call it A, B, Z, literally like word for word, your thing, and I went to Jack's community. He asked me to give a talk to his like visualized value community. And this was the one thing I told them. I go, you're at A, that's where you are.
Z is the vision, it's the dream. It's good to have that. It's good to know what that is, right? That's like the North Star. And without that, you don't really have the motivation. I don't really understand what the hell you're trying to do.
But wherever it gets paralyzed, is they think they need to know a step B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J. And it's like, and then they get paralyzed or they start thinking about step D when they haven't even done, you know, A to B yet.
And so I go A, B, Z. It's all you ever need. It's like where you are, you got to know that accurately.
The next thing you need to do, you need to know that. And then you need to know the end vision. And everything else is irrelevant. Like, just do that. And so you just literally said the same thing with your own, like with numbers, basically, instead. That's awesome.

**Sam Parr** (2:35)
Great. Great minds think alike. I mean, that's exactly how I feel, because every time I've ever had any bit of success, or even when I've done something and it didn't work out, I just think that if you just start and you're going to see so many things that you didn't even expect or realize were an opportunity or that weren't an opportunity, you're like, oh, I thought this, it's actually way different, but that's cool, or that's not cool, we got to quit.
You know what I mean? And that's why you just have to do something. I get really frustrated with inaction. All right, next up, we've got a segment from our Drunk Ideas episode. On this one, Shaan is talking about an idea that he calls The Very Long Distance Girlfriend.

**Shaan Puri** (3:12)
All right, first idea is called Very Long Distance Girlfriend. Okay, so I had this idea because I realized, I'm sitting there, and me and my wife, we like to watch all these dating shows, right? So we watch Love is Blind, we watch The Bachelor, and you watch these shows, and it's sort of like, it's like the honeymoon period. And I would say most people's homes are like ours. It's like, the scene is this. On screen, you see like two usually beautiful people living some kind of fairytale date.
And then like one person's kind of like, you know, there's some drama, one person's being dramatic or one person's unsure and the other person's really good or whatever. And then you, and then if you, if you zoomed out off the TV, you'd see a couch with usually a couple sitting like six feet apart from each other because they're so sick of each other.