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