Posts Tagged ‘Fear’

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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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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Speaking from personal experience, quitting my job to start my own company was one of the most unanticipated decisions I have ever made – and I wouldn’t change it for the world. Being an entrepreneur has led to the thrilling adventure which now defines my life.

Starting multiple companies over the years has brought an immense amount of passion, inspiration and love to my life. The entrepreneurial experience has taken me to places I would have never gone without having chosen such a path. Every day brings a new and continual flow of challenges that seem to be mini triumphs – high points of a life journey and human freedom.

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