Success is One Step Away from Giving Up
I get asked several times a week how I get the courage to run my own business and if it is, indeed, as easy as I make it look.
The truth is — easy is not a word I use when it comes to running a business. Easy has many connotations depending on your past and current belief systems. For some people, if a job is too easy, they will feel like they don’t deserve to get paid premium prices. For some people, they will constantly choose the complicated path in order to either prove that running a business needs to be hard or because they think they deserve the hardest method.
I do love the word ease though. It means that even if I am working on a complicated task or learning a new skill, I can choose the path of ease.
- It means I don’t overcomplicate the procedure by adding in all the bells and whistles.
- I don’t go looking at all of my competitors (there is no competition anyways) products to see if there is room for mine.
- I don’t dwell in analysis paralysis worrying if people will like me and buy my products.
- I don’t panic if something doesn’t work the way I had hoped, the first, second or even third time around.
- It means I start asking for help if I feel frustrated, mad or it’s taking me much too long to get something done.
All of those scenarios are either one step away from giving up and throwing it all away or moving forward into your next big step. You get to make the decision which direction that is for you.
I get asked if some people are not cut out to be entrepreneurs. I think every entrepreneur at one point has said to themselves “I am not made for this.” They have thoughts about quitting — right before they had their biggest breakthrough. The ones who are made to be entrepreneurs look at all of their fears right at the root and say “What would make this even better? How can I make this happen and how I can I do it without losing my mind?” Those are the ones, the entrepreneurs, the people who make it big, bigger, biggest.
If you’re at one of those points where you’re not sure if you’re going to give it all up or make it successful — ask yourself what would make this moment even better? Ask yourself if the thought of walking away right now feels better than making it work. Ask yourself if you deserve ease, joy, happiness and success. Be truthful. Listen to your first answers. Then ask yourself again and somewhere in the middle of your second, third and fourth answers you will find your truth.
