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!
With Internet's help, you can get a lot of ideas by
searching from google.com and overture.com, yahoo.com. In
today's information world, you are in a much better position
to be successful if you really want to succeed.
Julia Tang publishes Smart Online Business Tips, a fresh
and informative newsletter dedicated to supporting people
like you! To find out the best online business opportunities,
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