4 Things You Will Need to Leave Behind in Order to Make it Big
Naysayers
First and foremost you will have to detach yourself from those people who do not believe in you, criticise your efforts or don’t support you when you need them. This may be your work colleges, your friends, or even your family or partner.
People have all sort of reasons for acting negatively when they see you want to better yourself, but nothing will bring you down with greater force than entertaining their efforts to keep you the same person they have always known. As harsh as it might sound, anyone who is not happy for you and your success does not deserve your time. A plant that wants to grow cannot live amongst the weeds forever.
Regrets
If ever there were a pointless and destructive emotion, it is regret. Regret cannot change anything. It cannot turn back time, it cannot repair relationships, and it cannot earn you back all that money you lost on a bad investment.
What regret can do however is rob you of confidence, make you an angry person and force you to live in the past at a time when it is more important than ever to keep your eyes on the future. That is not to say you shouldn’t learn from every mistake you make and remember all your loses along with your wins, but leave regret behind, you don’t need it.
Greed
Lots of people think that greed will drive them forwards and be their motivating resource when times are hard. It won’t.
Greed is defined as an “excessive” or “rapacious” desire, and anything in excess is never good. Indeed, excessive is defined “more than or above what is necessary”, thus greedy people are never successful people. They may make money, drive fast cars and have nice holidays, but as greed is an emotion that cannot be satisfied, they will never be a ‘success’. Instead, that greed will consume them and it will end them. Be ambitious, have dreams, but don’t let greed drive you.
Free Time
Few people realise just how hard you have to work to make a business succeed. In fact, I would say that it is only those people who have given it a go who truly appreciate the time you have to commit, let alone the blood, sweat and tears.
It is of course very important to give yourself breaks and still maintain a healthy work/life balance, but don’t expect to maintain your daily squash session or evening catch-ups with old school friends…at least not for a while anyway.
Author Bio: Duncan is a small business owner and blogger representing a poor credit credit cards company in the UK
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I 100% agree with you regarding how detrimental naysayers can be to your business. They can suck away your energy so fast. While you might not want to stop being friends with them, I would recommend stop talking business with them.
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These are four excellent points. As I read all of them one word applies in each category – balance. While you absolutely should ditch naysayers who are just negative, you also don’t want to be surrounded by “yes men” (or women). Desire fuels us but greed can kill us. An all consuming effort will sap our creativity and productivity but slacking will stall our progress.
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Thanks Karan, I couldn’t agree more
It’s all true and somewhat bitter. Giving up free time is the worst part of it, but business owners have to do all these things in order to grow. By utilizing virtual services and outsourcing, entrepreneurs can get back their free time to some extent though. More tips here: http://www.mybusinessassistantblogs.com
Love your list could I also be so bold as to suggest clients that you have out grown culturally. Quick explanation. When I first started my company, I took any one any one, and further more in those early days, I did not understand the value that I was delivering, as a result, I Under Priced my services. Fast forward today, and yes guess what, some of those early guys, are just not adding any value to my company’s growth. The variables range from quibbling over price to the unwillingness to try new ideas and take bold steps. PAINFUL….lol
hallo
yes, there are of course more things to leave behind when you really want to start being alive…but to me, the first one you mentioned:
Naysayers, is the essential one. When you are ready to stop blaming yourself for the fact that you want good for yourself, and just leave – you are nearly free.
I am facing this now…thanks dear!
M.
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Definitely, getting rid of naysayers is certainly important for entrepreneurs. But sometimes as naysayers might be close family or friends the next best thing is to simply avoid talking to the naysayers about your goals and dreams.
On the flip side the Internet makes it so easy for entrepreneurs to connect with other like-minded individuals that if you aren’t already doing this-you’re missing out.
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