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How to Establish your Self Confidence as an Entrepreneur By Abe
Cherian Copyright ? 2005
It is only natural that when you start a business, you are
doing something different than most people. They not only will
look at you because you stick out like a sore thumb, but human
nature will cause people to naturally ridicule what you are
doing.
They will tell you all types of things like: "You're not
Business material." "You can't make a living working
for
yourself." "You'll fail because nobody can ever make any money
that way."
Being an entrepreneur is not just about having a lot of ideas or
business sense. It is also about having a lot of guts. You have
to build self-confidence in yourself. You have to only be
concerned with pleasing yourself.
Then, when you should fail with this particular venture, you'll
just dust yourself off and start again. It doesn't matter if
people think you're nuts. They aren't paying your rent and
running your life. Don't be concerned with what people "think"
you should be.
Simply please yourself and do what you feel is right. People are
too busy competing with society and "keeping up with the
Jones's" that they do things they are not comfortable with just
to appease them and look normal whatever
that is.
And if you have to, start out small in building your self
confidence. I used to be so self-conscious that I would never go
to a public event alone because I thought people would believe I
was lonely and had no friends.
Unbelievable, but true. Everyday I worked on walking into public
places adjusting to their environment. I'd take a magazine or
would be by myself. I would glance around, and to my amazement,
no one ever looked at me. No one cared that I was alone. Then it
dawned on me. "Who cares what these people think? I'll never see
them again." Besides, there were a lot of other people all by
themselves also and I could absorb myself in the magazine I had
took to read. Now I can enjoy the comfort of being by myself and
not give any thought to the people around me.
When
most people do fail in business they try to "save face" by
telling everyone they are "just in a slump" and every thing will
be back to normal soon. Besides, they don't want people to say:
"I told you so" and destroy any pride they are still hanging
onto. Unfortunately, this only delays the problem and creates
even more false hope for the people in your life as well as
yourself.
The best thing to do for anybody in this catastrophe is to
swallow their pride and admit they screwed up. Just face it head
on! Admit that you were so proud of your accomplishments that
your mind became diluted with "visions of sugar plums and
fantasyland."
If your small business is beyond repair, go out and find a job
and begin working on your next small business in the near
future. Keep your family fed and your
financial obligations met
but look forward to the day when you will succeed with your new
business venture.
And why should you try again? Simply because you won't make the
same mistakes you made this time. If you built some thing
successful before, but failed, you are certain to build the next
business stronger and wiser. Even if you fail the second time,
it won't be because of mistakes you made the first time. You'll
learn more and more and eventually be successful.
About the author:
Abe Cherian is the founder of Multiple Stream Media, a leading
performance-based Internet advertising company dedicated in
helping small businesses create online presence, brand
recognition and online automation. Main company web site:
http://www.multiplestreammktg.com
