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What Makes An Entrepreneur Tick?
It is only natural that when
you start a business, you are doing something different than most people.
They not only will look at you because you stick out like a sore thumb,
but human nature will cause people to naturally ridicule what you are
doing. They will tell you all types of things like: "You're not business
material." "You can't make a living working for yourself." "You'll fail
because nobody can ever make any money that way."
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Entrepreneurship is not just
about having a lot of ideas or business sense. It is also about
having a lot of guts. You have to build self-confidence in yourself.
You have to only be concerned with pleasing yourself and your
Creator (God) not mankind. Then, when (and if) you should fail with
this particular venture, you'll just dust yourself off and start
again. It doesn't matter if people "think" you're nuts! They aren't
paying your rent and running your life.
Don't be concerned with what people "think" you should be. Just
please yourself and do what you feel is right. People are too busy
competing with society and "keeping up with the Jones's" that they
do things they are not comfortable with just to appease them and
look
"normal" (whatever that is.) |
And if you have to, start out
small in building your self-confidence. I used to be so self-conscious
that I would never eat at a restaurant alone because I thought people
would believe I was lonely and had no friends. Unbelievable, but true.
But, everyday I worked on walking into a restaurant, taking a magazine to
read and eating alone. I would glance around, and to my amazement, no one
ever looked at me. No one cared that I was eating alone. Then it dawned on
me; "Who cares what these people think? I'll never see them again."
Besides, there were a lot of other people eating alone also and I could
absorb myself in the magazine I had took to read. Now, I can eat in
restaurants and not give any thought to the people around me.
But back to business when most people do fail in business they try to
"save face" by telling everyone they are "just in a slump" and everything
will be back to normal soon. Besides, they don't want people to say: "I
told you so" and destroy any pride they are still hanging onto.
Unfortunately, this only delays the problem and creates even more false
hope for the people in your life as well as yourself.
The best thing to do for anybody in this catastrophe is to swallow their
pride and admit they screwed up. Just face it head on! Admit that you were
so proud of your accomplishments that your mind became diluted with
"visions of sugar plums and fantasyland."
If your small business is beyond repair, go out and find a job and begin
working on your next small business in the near future. Keep your family
fed and your financial obligations met but look forward to the day when
you WILL succeed with your new business venture.
And why should you try again? Simply because you won't make the same
mistakes you made this time. If you built something successful before (but
failed), you are certain to build the next business stronger and wiser.
Even if you fail the second time, it won't be because of mistakes you
made the first time. You'll learn more and more and eventually be
successful. It's inevitable!
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