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."

 

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!