Successful Entrepreneurs Push Through When They Want To Quit
Building a business is hard and everyone who has done it successfully will tell you that.
Some who tried and failed will tell you that it's impossible, the market is too saturated, or that the big companies just have too much power. The good news is that it's not impossible, but it is incredibly hard to do. Recently, I've run up against some things that are hard about building my own business and looked around online for some inspiration.
Let me save you some time and distill down what it seems separates the entrepreneurs who succeed from the ones who keep hoping their dreams come true.
What Most People Do
Most people hold on to a dream that really revolves around freedom, not running a business.
They want to be able to spend their time exactly how they want, with who they want, and have all the money in the world passively flowing into their bank account. Unfortunately, that is not close to reality. Once they start a business (thinking that is their dream), they immediately put their head in that dream state and flat refuse to do something they don't want to.
When a difficult or boring task comes up, their either refuse to do it because "future them" wouldn't, or they decide the system is rigged against them and quit.
What Successful Entrepreneurs Do
Successful entrepreneurs might have a similar dream that revolves around freedom, but the dream is grounded in the reality of getting there.
They know that they will need to put in the late nights, early mornings, missed dinners, 16 hour days, and mind numbing repetitiveness. But that's all part of what they look for to succeed. They are willing to do what they need to themselves for a reward in the future and so they can get ahead of everyone else who refuses.
While most people shy away from difficult, repetitive, or boring, successful people embrace it as part of the journey.
