Becoming A Successful Entrepreneur
It is often asked by novices what is the one ingredient, tool, rule, key [or you fill in the blank] that will allow me to become a successful entrepreneur?
Sorry to disappoint, but there is no one tool, ingredient, rule, key, or anything else that will allow you to become a successful entrepreneur. For like a good meal, such as a good soup, it takes many ingredients in the right amount, added at the right time, to produce a successful soup; so is it with creating a successful entrepreneur.
Yet like water, found in all soups, to make the broth, there is an essential ingredient that you must have to drive success. That key attribute and operating principle that has been seen time and time again in successful entrepreneur stories; that causes the difference between successful entrepreneurs and those trying to be successful, is the ability to handle uncertainty.
Successful American businesswoman, Marissa Ann Mayer, an information tech executive and co-founder of Sunshine Contact, has a quote that illustrates this idea when she says “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.”
Another quote I quite like is Tony Robbins, when he says:
"The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the amount of uncertainty we can comfortably live with."
So, I want you to think, are you an entrepreneur who is wanting to live without taking a risk? The tentative result seeker? 🤔
But here’s the thing…
The challenge in Life is for you to embrace opportunities in life. Success is not hoping that success will come to you a little bit at a time, but you have to decide to take action to go for it.
Ask yourself if you have the aspirations of starting a new business in 2023?
Or
Are you wanting to reignite passion, excitement, and joy into your existing business to make it a success in 2023?
Then Do It!
If you would like to talk over or flush out your plans with someone, contact me, and let’s talk.
From my heart to yours,
Calvin