Posts Tagged ‘change’

Over the years, I’ve been privileged to be surrounded by many accomplished entrepreneurs. All of them have different stories about why they chose their path of entrepreneurship, and how their business grew, but all of them have one thing in common – instead of giving up when things went wrong, they learned to roll with the punches, and adapt to the given situation.

You see, the truth is, becoming an entrepreneur, or a small business owner, is a scary proposition. Whether you have capital lined up or you’re bootstrapping, and whether you’ve taken the plunge voluntarily or been forced to try your hand at entrepreneurship because you were laid off, there is always an element of fear involved.

Successful entrepreneurs leverage fear to their advantage. They feed off the excitement and exhilaration like an adrenaline junkie would when sky diving, leveraging the emotional high to keep them going, even when the chips are down.

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It’s true what they say: no one person really knows EVERYTHING.

Then there is the saying about people who know a little about a lot of things. However, this does not make one an expert by any stretch of the imagination.

Recently, I read an article entitled “Be Careful Who You Listen To” on a blog from James Malinchak, a gentleman and fellow entrepreneur I know from several years ago when we were in a speakers training weekend course. I enjoyed reading his article which he posted in a group I subscribe to on LinkedIn.

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Being an entrepreneur is a heck of an undertaking.

I believe being an entrepreneur is one of the greatest professional life experiences a person can have. When you sign up, you may have stars in your eyes and be armed with your dreams, passions and imagination. Good! You’re going to need them all.

Being an entrepreneur is a choice – a GREAT one.

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Have you met those people who talk about the business they’d like to have one day? They talk about the product or service they’d like to provide and describe the one they would feel comfortable and competent selling and serving to others?

You know them.

They even go to the extent of naming their business and maybe even coming up with a great tagline for it. Maybe they even go further to draw, or better yet, have a logo designed for it.

They talk and talk and talk and talk about it. They talk ad nausea about it. But they never seem to take that essential step: of doing it.

What’s holding them back?

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What do you do when big changes are happening?

As entrepreneurs, we are guaranteed to find ourselves amidst massive periods of change from time to time.

The ebb and flow in supply and demand for your products, services or system may find you at times feeling like you are in a freefall with no safe landing place in sight.

What do you do when change strikes?

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When you sign up to be an entrepreneur, buckle your seatbelt and hang on tight because you are about to go on the biggest and best amusement park ride ever. Seriously, entrepreneurs face challenges every day and yet the best ones know that each day is to be celebrated as a win, no matter what.

Think about all the phases an entrepreneur must go through to succeed. You’ll trip and fall a bit – and you may even secretly shed some tears from time to time. On other days, you’ll be beaming with the biggest smile friends have seen on your face in years. They’ll wonder what you’re up to or who you met or what happened to you all of a sudden.

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As an entrepreneur, it’s possible to get overwhelmed, frustrated or downright upset when you have a dream that you dreamed for your business and it’s just not happening.

The costs of being an entrepreneur come in many forms and you’ve got to learn to balance them all.

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