Motivating Yourself To Succeed as an Entrepreneur

Doing what you love is easy.

Being an entrepreneur is hard.

Often, the challenges of running a business outweigh the joy we get from pursuing our passions, and, at that moment, we may have a legit identity crisis.

Am I meant to be an entrepreneur?

Should I go back to working for someone else?

Maybe I don’t love this thing as much as I thought. . .

And, I’m going to be honest, not everyone was born to build a company.

Many of us are very, very comfortable with having someone else call the shots and take responsibility for things. They have no desire to even attempt to start their own business.

The fact that you already have started your own company means you are not one of them.

The fact that you have already stepped out on your belief that you are meant to be an entrepreneur means that you ARE meant to be an entrepreneur. You may not have sold all your inventory in one day. You may not have become fully booked out this month. . . or any other month. . . and that is OKAY! Rome wasn’t built in a day and even beans need to soak overnight.

Give yourself time to grow into the entrepreneur that you knew you were when you stepped out on faith.

Every day, move yourself closer to where you were heading when you first started. And when you hit that wall of overwhelm and frustration and conflict and tears that cause others to turn around, stand in your worth and take a moment, take a day, take a week, however long you need to think about what it would mean to you to conquer this wall.

What on the other side of that wall is worth getting there? Is it a person or something you can provide for them? Is it you? In a place you only ever dreamed of? Is it your pride knowing that you didn’t give up?

What’s on THIS side of the wall that is worth escaping? A soul-sucking job? The inability to afford the things you want? A dim standard of living for your loved ones? Whatever they are, get a firm hold of it and use it to pull yourself over that wall. To pull yourself through that mud. To pull yourself out of that hole.

If you don’t feel like it is enough, add more to it. Add more hopes, dreams, desires, and faith until you are so motivated every single day that you step around obstacles like lego bricks.

Occasionally you’ll still step on one and oh, will it hurt! But you’re going to have enough internal motivation to put most of them right in there place and out of your way!

What is your internal motivation? It doesn’t have to be big. It doesn’t have to be noble. It doesn’t even have to make sense.

As long as it motivates you to keep moving forward.