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Have you ever reached the end of your week and thought, “what the hell am I doing with my life?”
Any person who has ventured down the path of entrepreneurial careers has been in this place. You pour your sweat, blood, and soul into your dream business only to come up short on bills and exhausted from 80 hours of work in a week. It’s exhausting and taxes your mental, emotional and physical health.
1. Stamina
Upon deciding to be your own boss you will quickly learn an unwavering lesson about self-employment. It can be painful, and life does not slow down or show any mercy because of your new work-life definition.
Problems will arise like; sickness, kids being late to school, broken down cars, divorce, lost merchandise, scams, poor marketing, websites getting hacked, the list of daily variables can be endless. Being able to endure these frequent growing pains is crucial. Regardless of how challenging your day may begin, you still need to show up and put in the work.
2. Execution
The one driving force that holds everyone back from their true potential is lack of execution. Things rarely turn out how you envisioned them no matter how much you prepare and plan. So you must start first by executing and adjust by pivot along the way. Set sail and learn to navigate to the best outcome along the way.
3. Resilience
When you’re an Entrepreneur everything stacks up on your shoulders, or at least it can often feel that way. Learning how to deal with these challenges with resilience will be one of the most important tools that you can employ to see success.
Take a personal inventory and be honest with yourself;
Are you letting other colleagues’ or family members’ feelings of doubt get to you?
Are external circumstances holding you back, or are you getting in the way of yourself?
Are you letting small bumps derail the entire train because it’s easier than facing the larger issues at hand?
Now ask yourself these questions;
Can I leverage those negative thoughts from others or myself to create execution?
Can I create systems to avoid focusing on the external and focus on the factors that I can control? If so, what are the exact rules that will allow me to do this?
Am I focused on drama or my end goal?
Life doesn’t stop when you become a business owner. Learning how to leverage your self-doubts and turn them into motivation will be a key ingredient to your success. In order to do this, you’ll need to set rules of engagement for the small things that take a majority of your time. Take an inventory of your biggest problems and set rules for how to avoid them at all costs.
4. Context
Why do we bother with it in the first place? When you’re a few weeks, months, or years into business this question can rear its nasty head.
The abstract, top-down, macro view is that all of us are only here for a short time. You realistically have 20 to 30 years in your life to really push yourself, and many people get a small taste of success and become complacent in their vision.
Remembering why you started in the first place and the difference that you make for your clients, employees and the world around you are all important to be reminded of. A daily practice I use is to look at client testimonials in those moments when I’m losing my way. They help me find my true north again.
5. Continual Growth
In order to see success year after year and not fall into that complacency that I talked about, you have to embrace continual growth. As you reach milestones that your past self has set for yourself, you’ll feel a sense of accomplishment that’s necessary for continual growth.
Certainly, you can take time to celebrate reaching your goals, and you should, but it’s important to be able to experience those moments year after year and the only way to do that is through setting new goals as you accomplish the old ones.
That means taking time to look at what will push you and your business to higher heights and continually being willing to embrace new and different levels of discomfort.