The Real Reason Why Most People Can’t Start Their Own Business
Many folks who want to launch their own enterprises have been in conversation with me.
Almost all of these individuals believe they are being held back for one or two “reasons.”
However, the majority of these individuals are not speaking the truth.
They can whine about the government, the economy, or the capital, but they are not the true causes of their inability to launch their own companies.
In actuality, many only stay in professions they detest out of FEAR. Tthey are actually afraid of the following questions:
- “What if I start this small business and it fails?”
- “What happens to my family if my business fails?”
- “What would I do if I lost all my money?”
FEAR is what keeps people captive.
Unfortunately, most of these people are not telling themselves the truth.
They lie to themselves to make themselves happy.
You cannot go far in life until you tell yourself the truth.
You cannot go far in life until you face your fear.
If you want to succeed as an entrepreneur, you must assume the nature of soldiers.
Warriors go to the battles, though they are afraid of death.
They see it as their responsibility to face death.
“If I perish, I perish” is what Biblical Esther said.
Until you can say the same to yourself, you will do nothing significant with your life
More than a decade ago when I was preparing to go fully into the business world, I knew it was never going to be easy.
I had no one to give me money and my family members never wanted me to go into the business world.
They wanted me to get a good job with my good grades and they were afraid that I may not make it in business.
Having no one to support me financially, I should have made excuses.
I should have told myself, “I have no one to give me capital therefore I cannot start a business”
But I told myself something different.
I said to myself, “I will rather DIE than to work for another man all my life!”
It was not a joke.
If you have read my story you know that I was actually willing to DIE or build a business.
Well, it’s all about our philosophy.
Until you change your philosophy, you cannot change your life.
While growing up, my philosophy was “Life is short and it has to be lived the way I love it”
I believe it would be better for me to die at 20, than to live till 70 working 8hrs every day on jobs I hate.
I believed (and still believe) that entrepreneurship is the only thing that can make me happy and I was willing to DIE if I couldn’t own business.
My fear disappeared because my heart knew that I had no other way.
Check your heart and you will see fear there.
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