Thinking of starting a business?
Challenge your beliefs first.
6 obstacles to overcome so you can win big.
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Challenge your beliefs first.
6 obstacles to overcome so you can win big.
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How you feel and think directly affects your business.
We all know this but we don't want to confront our demons and assume we'll be fine either way.
Think you can get away with negativity and self-defeating mechanisms in your business?
You're wrong.
We all know this but we don't want to confront our demons and assume we'll be fine either way.
Think you can get away with negativity and self-defeating mechanisms in your business?
You're wrong.
You have to recognize and acknowledge the following mechanisms before they destroy your business.
Here are 6 of the common obstacles to overcome.
Most of which I had to conquer myself as well.
Here are 6 of the common obstacles to overcome.
Most of which I had to conquer myself as well.
1. Perfectionism
You've been taught to strive for perfection.
Society produces great followers that obey and conform instinctively. It doesn't create great entrepreneurs.
Expecting perfection will only trigger frustration and a lack of productivity.
Be an imperfectionist.
You've been taught to strive for perfection.
Society produces great followers that obey and conform instinctively. It doesn't create great entrepreneurs.
Expecting perfection will only trigger frustration and a lack of productivity.
Be an imperfectionist.
Solution:
Give yourself permission to get messy.
Launch, share, publish before you feel ready.
Accept that things will never be perfect.
Use the feedback on your great (not perfect) product to further tweak it.
The only thing that matters is the market's opinion.
Not yours.
Give yourself permission to get messy.
Launch, share, publish before you feel ready.
Accept that things will never be perfect.
Use the feedback on your great (not perfect) product to further tweak it.
The only thing that matters is the market's opinion.
Not yours.
2. Victim Mindset
Whenever I tried something and I didn't perform as hoped, it was always 'their' fault. Never mine.
This was my main issue.
The system. The rich. The left. The right.
Hiding behind external factors to give up on your dreams
is weak.
You deserve better.
Whenever I tried something and I didn't perform as hoped, it was always 'their' fault. Never mine.
This was my main issue.
The system. The rich. The left. The right.
Hiding behind external factors to give up on your dreams
is weak.
You deserve better.
Solution:
Understand the world isn't out to get you. It doesn't give one f*** about you or me.
Acknowledge your mind just wants to make excuses to let you off the hook.
Your belief, your outlook, and your reaction to challenges are what define your success. Not externalities.
Understand the world isn't out to get you. It doesn't give one f*** about you or me.
Acknowledge your mind just wants to make excuses to let you off the hook.
Your belief, your outlook, and your reaction to challenges are what define your success. Not externalities.
3. You're A Lone Wolf
Solopreneurship does not mean you will be building your empire without help.
If you can't learn to delegate basic invoicing, admin work, and other things that don't make you more money, you're doing it wrong.
You will stagnate and burn out eventually.
Solopreneurship does not mean you will be building your empire without help.
If you can't learn to delegate basic invoicing, admin work, and other things that don't make you more money, you're doing it wrong.
You will stagnate and burn out eventually.
Solution:
Find people better, smarter, more successful than you.
Pick their brains. Offer to help.
Ask them for help.
Invest time and money if need be.
Even if that means sacrificing profit.
You're in this for the long-haul, not to make a quick buck.
Find people better, smarter, more successful than you.
Pick their brains. Offer to help.
Ask them for help.
Invest time and money if need be.
Even if that means sacrificing profit.
You're in this for the long-haul, not to make a quick buck.
4. You Avoid Discomfort
If you're like the old me, then you've got a long history of running from pain and fear.
That business you're running is going to be short-lived if you don't change your relationship with discomfort.
Without emotional stamina your talent is useless.
If you're like the old me, then you've got a long history of running from pain and fear.
That business you're running is going to be short-lived if you don't change your relationship with discomfort.
Without emotional stamina your talent is useless.
Solution:
You use these feelings of discomfort and pain as actionable data.
Signs that you need to adjust and course-correct.
Accept them, acknowledge them and stop running from them.
It's essential for you to do this if you want to survive the bumpy entrepreneurial journey.
You use these feelings of discomfort and pain as actionable data.
Signs that you need to adjust and course-correct.
Accept them, acknowledge them and stop running from them.
It's essential for you to do this if you want to survive the bumpy entrepreneurial journey.
5. Bag Of Mistakes
You let your past mistakes define both your present and your future.
Understand that your negative emotions, based on those 'failures', infect your present-day actions.
Left unchecked you're heading for depression and risk burning yourself out.
You let your past mistakes define both your present and your future.
Understand that your negative emotions, based on those 'failures', infect your present-day actions.
Left unchecked you're heading for depression and risk burning yourself out.
Solution:
Celebrate trying and failing, rather than playing it safe.
You have to understand that making mistakes and failure are an integral part of success.
Reframe failure as yet another data point for you to interpret and to use in your future experiments.
Learn and grow!
Celebrate trying and failing, rather than playing it safe.
You have to understand that making mistakes and failure are an integral part of success.
Reframe failure as yet another data point for you to interpret and to use in your future experiments.
Learn and grow!
6. You Think Others Are Better
When you start off your journey, you see all these competitors and assume they are better than you.
It destroys your morale and you feel the self-doubt growing every single day.
This focus on others can severely cripple you and your business.
When you start off your journey, you see all these competitors and assume they are better than you.
It destroys your morale and you feel the self-doubt growing every single day.
This focus on others can severely cripple you and your business.
Solution:
No one is 100 times faster than you.
No one is 100 times more skilled than you.
It's just experience. They took action. They improved.
Remind yourself of that. Every single day.
They put in the work. You have not. Yet.
No one is 100 times faster than you.
No one is 100 times more skilled than you.
It's just experience. They took action. They improved.
Remind yourself of that. Every single day.
They put in the work. You have not. Yet.
I hope this was helpful to you new or aspiring entrepreneurs.
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If you need help in finding your dream career, I've created a freebie book to help you out:
gumroad.com/l/purposeunloc…
DM me for help!
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