| Are you doomed to failure in your business? Many will | | | | to come across many individuals that would like |
| tell you that. After all, most small business ventures | | | | nothing more than to see you fail so they can |
| fail sometime within the first five years. Many people, | | | | succeed. You will without a doubt encounter those |
| sometimes even though well meaning, will try to | | | | who have nothing good to say and are only negative |
| discourage you from starting your own business. | | | | about what you need to do with your business. You |
| They will say you have to have a natural aptitude | | | | must take most of it with a grain of salt otherwise it |
| and talent for being in business. Or they might say, | | | | won't be long before you are ready to hang it up |
| you have to be a born entrepreneur. It's your choice | | | | and close shop. Take the constructive advice and |
| whether to believe them or not, but I say if you are | | | | tune out the completely negative. |
| motivated to start your own business chances are | | | | Your ultimate success in your business venture will |
| you have these qualities to some degree already. | | | | require perseverance, a thick skin, and finally, the |
| Sure, there ARE skills that you absolutely need to | | | | ability to deal with... FAILURE! That's right. Failure. |
| have to be a successful businessperson. The good | | | | Many of the most successful people in business and |
| news though, is there are many ways to develop | | | | in life have had to deal with many more failures than |
| those skills along the way. Instead of focusing on | | | | you might imagine. What separates people like Bill |
| those skills at first, you should be thinking about the | | | | Gates who in the 1970s was a Harvard dropout? Or |
| qualities inherent to all good entrepreneurs. | | | | Elvis Presley who after his first show was told "you |
| First is perseverance. Remember your research paper | | | | ain't going nowhere, son". Or Walt Disney who was |
| project you had to write back in school? Well this is | | | | fired by a newspaper editor because he lacked good |
| your research project on steroids! At the beginning, | | | | ideas? The most successful people in life and in |
| you may learn many new things and concepts from | | | | business were failures multiple times in their efforts |
| your research that require further study and | | | | to be successful. What separated them is that they |
| understanding. You move forward slow, but steady. | | | | did not give up. You shouldn't either. If you have just |
| The danger being, that you give up just before you | | | | one of the three qualities I have spoken of here, |
| find the particular information you are seeking. If you | | | | make it your ability to deal with failures by seeing |
| keep plugging away and compiling the necessary | | | | them as part of your success journey. |
| information, you will end up with very nice finished | | | | If you will persevere through setbacks, let the |
| product. This persistence and perseverance is the | | | | negativity of people around you regardless of their |
| same thing you need in business. You must keep at it | | | | intentions roll off of your back, and DO NOT quit |
| until you get to the point of success. | | | | despite the failures that will come your way in your |
| In the business world, perseverance certainly can | | | | business, you will not be able to keep from |
| take you a long way but a second valuable attribute | | | | succeeding. Go ahead and FAIL your way all the way |
| is for one to have thick skin. Needless to say, along | | | | to the top! |
| your journey of building your business you are going | | | | |