Starting a small business can be scary, time consuming and hard.
And can sometimes be hard to stay focus.
To keep that focused energy in the right direction, we might need to give up a few things.
Here are 5 things to avoid to be successful in your small business
1-Toxic people
Most people don’t consider themselves as toxic. No one wants to be.
People is not the easiest thing to avoid to be sucessful, but just as important.
A toxic person is some one who brings negativity to another peoples emotion or life, either its intentional or unintentional.
Some toxic people can be in a form of bullies.
The kind that will intentionally criticize you, regardless if your doing your very best. You will never get a positive feed back from them.
An other type of toxic people are the ones that have their own personal problems, and can’t manage with the stress or trauma they are dealing with. They will unintentionally act and show negativity or can upset others are around them.
These people may be your friends and family, keeping a distance for a short period of time can be beneficial when starting a business.
2-Social Media
Out of the many things in the world, Social Media takes a lot of your free time.
Either its Twitter, Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram or Youtube, they can be addictive and before you know it, you just wasted your entire evening watching other people dance on tiktok. All things to avoid to be successful.
Don’t give up on them entirely! Use them to your advantage.
As Wikipedia states:
“They are interactive technologies and digital channels that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
Post content about your business, show what your product or service is, invite people to your website.
Use it to interact with other and get traffic on your own account. Once your done your post, get out!
You want believe how much extra time you actually have and become successful
3-Excuses
We all have reasons why we can’t start our own business. Most likely those reasons will be there forever.
Afraid of failing, scared of makin a mistake, not knowing what to expect. And it’s perfectly normal!
If not now, then when?
Fear has been an important emotion since the day humans walked the earth. It helped us evolved with the fight or flight response.
Your business is no different.
You will encounter fears along your journey. Your reaction to them will determine your success.
Embrace the fear and jump in the water! Avoid excuses and be successful.
4 – 9 to 5 job (when ready)
A 9-5 job take a full 1/3 of your day. If not more when you consider driving to and from home.
That’s a day of working for someone else. Exchanging your time for a paycheck. A paycheck that will not increase by much even if you give your all.
You repeat it 5 times a week, and 2 days off. 2 days that are not optional.
Imagine taken that time on YOUR business. That’s 8 full hours you could use to grow your business! 8 hours to learn, study, research into your business. 40 hours a week dedicated to you and no one else.
When you put in the hard work into your business, you will see the outcome of it.
That 40 hours a week that could be the difference between a hobby and a business.
5-Other people’s opinion to be successful
When positive outcome is discuss about a subject, there’s always someone pulling the negative out of it.
Every time you will want to share your ideas on how to take on your business, someone will come up with the cons of your idea.
Every time you will mention on how you wanna proceed with your hobby and do it full time, someone will say how insecure your income will be, if you have any.
Every time you will talk about the joy you are having in this journey, someone will suggest for you to go back to your old job.
Don’t listen or think to much on if they might be right.
Stay focus on your journey and your business.
When focused in the right direction, the possibility of success can be limitless.
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