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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!
