What separates the people who make it from the people who don't

Justin Vajko • July 26, 2026

In my experience, there’s 1 thing that separates the people who make it online vs. the people who don’t.

The people who make it don’t care about being perfect.


I watched this video with Kyle Beats on YouTube recently, and he described the exact scenario I’m talking about.


You work really hard on something. You obsess over a project for 2+ months, and you put it out to the world, and it flops.


And it hurts because that amazing thing you made was only perfect to you. Everyone else kinda just kept going.


But bottom line: You also have to keep going.


If you want to be successful, you can’t let failures haunt you. You have to keep moving.


We all only have so much time, and no one gets a single minute back by feeling sorry for themselves.


I see this all the time in video.


Clients get so worried about making sure that everything’s perfect or worrying about not getting enough likes or engagement that they stop making videos altogether.


(or TBH a lot of people never even start)


So yeah, I totally agree with Kyle Beats, and his philosophy doesn’t just apply to music; it applies to video as well.

Justin Vajko

About Justin


Justin is a marketing nerd. His gateway drug was in middle school when he and his buddies would make up brand names and draw logos for fun. He graduated with a B.A. in Graphic Design from UW Eau Claire. He then cut his teeth leading the marketing for a $4 million non-profit, moving them into the digital age with new channels and systems. He joined a $60M healthcare manufacturer as marketing team of 1, helping grow them to $90M in three years. Justin became a full-time marketing entrepreneur in 2018. He now enables founders to grow their pipeline and thought leadership through social media videos. Follow him on Linkedin here.

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