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Inspiration For An Entrepreneur |
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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."
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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