I am noticing that the entrepreneurial life is as much about mindset and confidence as it is about anything else. In fact, I believe mindset and confidence probably account for a good 80+% of results. Firstly, you are not going to have any success if you don’t _do_ something. Doing something often means taking some type of risk, be it large or small. Risk of failure or embarrassment at something not working or perhaps monetary risk. Monetary risk can come into play when setting up a business or venture or making an investment. In most of these scenarios, money will be ‘in play’. While it may not always be your money, there is still pressure to succeed.
The factors of pressure and risk are very rarely in such full view and close contact in the ‘normal’ context of a day job. As such, they can be quite foreign to the budding entrepreneur and can build up as mental barriers to success. Causing you to do such things as consume too much information/education about a particular topic without actually doing anything. Here’s 2 keys:
- Be Confident!! Look back through your life and remember all the successes you have had. Realize that business and success is not rocket science. It really is not as complicated as your brain likes to make it out to be. Earn more money than you spend!:)
- Be Mindful. You need to be aware of what your mind is saying to you and if that is impeding your success. Join a mastermind group with a focus on action and accountability and concentrate on building a mindset of success.
I hope this helps you build confidence and grow a positive, success based mindset.
So, firstly it has been too long between postings. I need to get into the habit of posting at least twice weekly, if not daily. There’s many posts that should have been before this, but I wanted to put this up before I forgot it. I listened to a podcast episode this week which I hope will really propel me forward. In the past couple of months, I have been through the Thirty Day Challenge and read A LOT of books, blogs, ebooks etc. All with the aim of building my education and getting ‘ready’ to launch 1 or more businesses on the net. The issue I have been having and I believe a lot of people have is that there is so much information out there that you will forever be ‘getting ready’.
What to do about it? Go to Internet Business Mastery, subscribe to the podcast and listen to the latest (number 40) episode. This will teach you that in addition to doing the often mind numbing research into the viability of a market, also consider your interests, passions and life purposes. This will help you reach that trigger point of action vs inaction (or analysis paralysis). Sure, you need to do some due diligence to ensure the niche you are entering is viable and indeed there are people or businesses buying something. However, you can spend forever trying to find that perfect niche with the perfect numbers. My combining your life purpose/passions into this process, you will push past that point of ‘research’ and move into action as you become excited about making your business work within your chosen niche.
Move forward.
So, here’s the next major part of my success journey.
This will help you finding a mentor.
The final 2 parts are currently ‘work in progress’ so this will be the last post on this topic for a while.
After finally deciding to do something about my career and take my destiny into my own hands, I stumbled into contact with a guy how runs a mentoring program. His business is mentoring and he provides guidance and mentoring on the principles of success, goals, business and real estate investing. Without much thought, I signed up and began a mentoring program realizing that finding and using a mentor is a key factor in success.
I have nearly spent a year in the mentoring program and have done and learned many things. In short, I started off doing some real estate investing while learning about the basics of business, success mindset and lifestyle design. Instead of running through everything I did during this period, here is a summary of the primary things I have learned. I think this is more useful than simply a post of things I did.
- Find, interview and hire/use a reputable mentor - this is key in getting to where you want in a timely manner - don’t reinvent the wheel!
- Success/Business/Mindset are gray areas - No one will be able to give you exact step by step instructions for how to get where you want to be. It is unique to each individual.
- Sit down early on and take some time to plan:
- What does your ultimate life look like - financial and non financial?
- What timeline do you want/need to get there?
- What intermediate steps do you need to take?
- What do you like/dislike about certain factors of business - do you want to be a real estate investor or would you rather start a business?
- Get Organized - There will be many options coming your way in the coming months. Focus on what you need to do and keep going back to that. Try to avoid information overload. Read ‘Getting Things Done’ and do the free course at http://www.simpleology.com.
- Pace Yourself - You are in this for the long haul. Realize it takes a while and be patient. Don’t burn out! Learn to relax!!
- Be confident - Know your abilities and what you’ve done in life so far and have been successful at and take this into your new business(es).
- It’s all about the mindset!! - Read the top few ’success’ books and realize that people that are successful are that way because they know they can do it, not because they are any smarter/stronger/richer etc.
That’s it for now. I hope this has helped you with finding a mentor. I’ll add more later as needed. Stay tuned for parts 3 and 4 as I get there!:)