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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