Just Do It Already!
The biggest problem with running your own business is fear of failure. If you can get over that, then you’ll be golden. That’s because nothing is guaranteed. You could strike gold, or find yourself playing in dirt. But if you don’t start digging, you’ll never know.
Many people ask me for help on a daily basis. They want to know if doing this or that would be better. Well I can give you advice, but until you do it you won’t know for sure. I could be completely wrong!
You need to be willing to take the risk and try it. If you fail, that’s OK. Learn from the experience and move on. That’s how you get better. It’s hard, it takes time, and most of the time it takes money. But my failures are what have taught me to be successful. There’s no way for me to give you a nugget that would encapsulate all of the knowledge I’ve gained from failures. The only way you’ll learn is by failing yourself.
So I challenge you today, take your idea and run with it. Be ready to fail, but hope for success. When you do fail, stand up and start running again. Just stop sitting on the fence in fear and get in the game!
So true. A journey of a 1000 steps starts with the first step. If you never start or stub your toe and stop, you’ll never reach your destination. You’ll always be the one with the excuse, I coulda done that but I stubbed my toe, it really hurt, and then my shoe wouldn’t fit and that’s why I couldn’t get there. Keep moving forward. Learn from your failures but don’t give them room and board to live with you.
If people online would take their business as serious as the local restaurant owner, there would be a much higher success rate.
There is NO MAGIC BUTTON that will make you thousands of dollars per week.
Restaurant owners don’t think this way …..so why in the heck do most online entrepreneurs?
Take what you learn and implement today…. not tomorrow.
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So true..hope for the best, plan for the worst..repeat
Been toying with ideas. They pop in and out..What I keep getting hung up on is finding a balance between something that is novel enough to attract folks attention yet standard enough that they’re comfortable with it.
Plus, even if I can’t make it work, maybe I’ll influence a drift in the standards for someone who can..
ENJOY!
Hi Tim you are so right we all have to try things ourselves and what failed for you might work for someone else. I have tried many things over the years and have taken risk and I am still at it. Can’t keep a good person down LOL.
This is so true. People who are afraid to fail never succeed at anything, unless by accident. You can’t win the lottery, unless you play. So many people want a guarantee before they try. There are no guarantees at anything, even life. I take that back…there is one guarantee and that is we’re all going to die. I don’t mean to sound morbid, but when I go, I want to know I tried. There’s no greater satisfaction then trying and winning.
Wow! Great advise Tim! Enough Said!
Michael
If you really want success and are prepared to go the distance there is no reason to believe you will fail.
Anything worth having is worth the hard work, but if you are a quitter or worst yet, expect for things to be handed to you on a silver platter then you are doomed to fail.
Thanks Tim. Motivational posts are great on Mondays especially after a long weekend!
Jimmy Adames
Many years ago my foster mother taught me a valuable lesson. Whenever I would start with the ifs, her reply would always be, “And if the little dog didn’t stop to s–t he would have caught the rabbit. She’s long gone, but often her words nudge me along.
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Great advice. Thanks for sharing.
Failure is a natural part of the growth process.
The difference between adults and babies is that babies
always have someone cheering them on even when they fall.
The fear of failure sets in later on when our parents or
peers deride us when we fail an attempt at something.
The key is “how we take it” The successful orientated
person will just say “I’ll show them” while others just
fold their wings and never fly again.
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Tim,
I really needed this. I’ve been procrastinating too long over a couple of new ventures.
You are absolutely right! It’s time to take the plunge!
Thank you!
John
That’s it exactly, Tim! People look at the promise of something new, and it is at once exciting and scary. All too often they let the fear win. They don’t realize it’s absolutely okay to be at the beginning. You start with a first step. What happens after that only looks like failure if you choose to see it that way and quit before realizing the benefits of your experience.
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Yup! Just do it, Tim.
Like for example, if you have always wanted to run your own traffic exchange but you cannot get any JV and don’t have a list (because you didn’t build your list when you get started online), so what do you do?
JUST DO IT!
Sure, the growth will be pretty slow but hey, satisfaction is where you see members signing up from your own effort and getting payment from those members who appreciate your service.
And even if you fail, SO WHAT? Many successful people failed before they get to be what they are today! That’s part of the learning curve.
So so true. I wasn’t always a successful traffic exchange owner. I’ve owned a total of 5 exchanges over the years plus my newest one. I stumbled the first few times and fell but at least I tried. I could have took a shortcut and bought a established successful traffic exchange like Jon Olson did with ILoveHits and Paul Kinder did with TrafficSplash but I decided to do it the hard way and build a membership from scratch. Every traffic exchange I started I gained more experience but not all were successful. Only Traffic Experts and Traffic Heroes were successes both still around and both I sold. The other 3 failed but I enjoyed building them anyway and I learned from my mistakes.
Tim you started from scratch and hit a home-run out of the ballpark and have been the only owner of your exchange. I have always admired you for that but I am sure you have had business that failed. We all have, experience is the best way to learn and I don’t regret anything I have done along the way!
My new exchange relaunches in a couple weeks. Look for the announcement!
One of my favorite quotes is “It is the START that SOPTS most people” I wish I knew where it came from, but you have really explained it well!
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two thumbs up, absolutely right
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This is so true and loved reading all the comments left – yep you have to “Get Yer Done” Don’t go thru life wondering if you could – never going to know if you don’t try – and you will make mistakes but that is how you learn and how things get better – just get back on that horse when you fall off and keep riding – you’ll love the rewards at the end.
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Yes fear of failure is a big hurdle; however I think there are still many logistical hurdles, such as lack of capital, that hold people back in many ventures. So fear of failure should be qualified as the biggest hurdle when everything else is in place. And yes fear of failure is big, but rebuilding from past failures is also a big hurdle that many people face too. Nonetheless, it is true there is always hope for successful in future endeavors and fear should never hold anyone back.