When you’ve found your challenge and made your Commitment .to your entrepreneurial idea, what do you think you have to do next?
You might think that you’d have to start setting up your office and learning about becoming an entrepreneur, but there is something else you need to do first. Before you start gathering all the things you need to do your business, you have to get Comfortable.
You may be eager to get started with your business and to start making money, but one of the best things you can do to prepare yourself for this business is to first get comfortable.
If you have been trying to become an entrepreneur for a while, and are beginning to feel that this business may not be for you after all, perhaps you simply need to get comfortable with being an entrepreneur.
Being comfortable is defined as being free from doubt. For an entrepreneur, it means being free from doubting yourself and your abilities.
Another definition means a satisfying experience. Can you think of a more satisfying experience than breaking away from the 95% of people who are going nowhere and moving into the 5% of people who are claiming their success?
Operating a business is a dynamic process. New things come along all the time. More importantly, every business deal you do will be different. Every customer’s personality and needs will be different. The one thing that remains the same in all of the business deals you will do — the only thing on which you can rely to be consistent and constant — is you.
Having no one but yourself to rely on, how does that make you feel? It’s enough to make some people turn and run. Now, I don’t want you to feel like you’ll be doing business alone — you can’t do business in a vacuum. You’ll have business associates working with you with each business deal you put together, but the fact remains that the success of your business depends on you..
You must get comfortable relying on your own abilities, or else you won’t be able to succeed in your business, or in anything else for that matter.
Getting comfortable is all about developing an attitude that will put you in the 5% of the people who are claiming their success. This essential attitude, simply stated is, “I can do this.” In each business deal you do, you’ll be meeting the needs of your customers and yourself — a win-win deal for everyone. I’ll tell you right now that it takes more positive thinking and creativity than it does knowledge.
If you are new to operating a business, don’t worry too much if you feel you have not obtained the necessary knowledge for performing business deals.
No matter how much knowledge you gain about your business, it will always take more positive thinking and creativity than knowledge to become successful.
This does not mean that it’s not important to expand your knowledge base, because it definitely is. The more knowledgeable you become, the more successful you will become with your entrepreneurial efforts.
However, all the knowledge in the world will not help you be successful without the essential attitude.
Even if you have been in business for a while and have decided to branch out into other areas, you will find that positive thinking and creativity will take you a long way in performing business deals in unfamiliar areas. It doesn’t matter if you’re doing a business deal that is similar to a hundred others you’ve done, or if you’re doing a deal in an area that’s totally unfamiliar to you.
The thing you need the most to make a business deal work is to maintain a positive and creative attitude. You may have the best web page, the best fax
machine or the best knowledge base in the business, but the only thing that really matters is you — and your attitude.
And that’s the thing with which you’ve got to get comfortable. You will never know everything there is to know about this business, so you should look at each business deal as a learning experience.
Before you can get started building your business, you have to develop the attitude that you can be comfortable with your abilities, no matter what challenges you face.
Don Burnham is an entrepreneur, author, real estate investor, teacher and speaker. He is CEO of the International Association of Seminar Professionals (IASP) and CEO and cofounder of the Wealth Restoration Institute, LLC, at www.weknowthewayback.com/.
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