Take on smaller projects and just finish one?
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.Stop doing it for yourself and understand your place in this world as an entrepreneur is to help other people.Hello dear fastlane friends,
I would like to share with you my story. I am right now 21 years old,i live in Bucharest/Romania and my dream is to be a entrepreneur, i want to experience life and freedom. By this time i had started almost 11 projects and non of them finished. I feel like a i have a mental block and i can't move further, i read a lot of books including MJ's book which is awesome, but i feel like i get freeze when i try to work, i can't focus and i am desperate.
Each time i make something is getting wrong or worse, and i don't understand why. Each morning i visualize the day when i will be what i want to be and driving my Porsche Panamera Turbo S.
Can someone tell me how to escape from this mental jail?
A lot of thanks if you read my post.
Alternate way to get that car :1. Pick a Small Project.
2. Make sure it fills a need.
3.?????
4. Profit.
5.Rinse and repeat.
6.Porsche Panamera Turbo S.
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Do you REALLY want it?Each morning i visualize the day when i will be what i want to be and driving my Porsche Panamera Turbo S.
You are not the only one with this problem, a lot of people struggle with jumping from one project to the other. Like a year ago, I did exactly the same thing. I started a project for a week, saw no results and started a new project. Try to be patient and show perseverance in the project that you would like to finish!
Nobody ever got rich or saw amazing results just after starting a project, and they saw no results at all after quitting! Focus on 1 project and finish it. When you think about quitting, just pause for a day or so and think about it. This helped me to just go on with the project I was working on, because after a day you realise that you should try it again!
Good luck!
Straight up?
The mental jail you are talking about is NOT unique to you.
I think everyone personalises it way too much "I'm lazy" or "I can't finish", just stop running that excuse and better your completion rate every day.
Ok, heres an analogy, you hate cleaning up your room/apartment/house so you leave a bowl here a bowl there and it starts to smell and you are like "f#ck it, I don't mind", so then a few months later you are in this little mancave that isn't very neat and tidy.
Pushing yourself to clean can totally work, but even more powerful than that is discovering a "pull" or a "want" to clean an building a habit around it.
In business, you just need that daily "pull".
I have tons of unfinished books, and how I finish them is I just take time to sit, doing nothing right next to it, and eventually I'm like "yeah ok, lets write".
So put yourself in a position to do that work, and to feel drawn to it.
Its not a trait that is just specific to you, you aren't specially disabled, you just need to nut up an work it out for yourself.
Ideally you want to be self motivated, so just figure out a way you can be and get it done, don't be a little quitter baby
When its real hard, just make tasks extra stupid simple, and ultra specific, grab that bowl, put it closer to the sink.
Write one sentence. Make one call. Just put the toe in the water, and let nature do the rest.
Also, have fun with what you do. Crank up the music, dance, drink, involve people, have fun.
There are countless examples of companies fighting through scarce, uncertain times to then be worth billions. Success is not linear.
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Take on smaller projects and just finish one?
Alternate way to get that car :
If you sell only 25 of those bottles, you should, as Kevin o leary says : Take your business and shoot it behind the barn.
Or rather my way : If you do not manage to sell 25 of them in A DAY, EVERY DAY, shoot it aswell.
I hope somebody disagrees.
If I had to SELL THEM door to DOOR, I doubt anyone here wouldn´t manage to sell 25 bottles in a day.
Having a company that sells 25 bottles per year is not business, but a hobby.
I am saying this, because I have sold more than 25 / of product(complete garbage-btw: my first job)in an hour, than they did in a year...
Kevin O´leary saysy : If it is not making any money after 3 years, it is not a business, but a hobby.
It is not good to "keep trying" just for the sake of it, just because everyone thinks that if you "just try more" you will succeed. Chances are - you might, but you might not aswell. (MUCH MORE likely unfortunatelly)
I do not think that we should be taking examples from a company that got "lucky". Today it would just not be replicated.
He just means that you need to gather your wits, and come up with a better solution if you can't sell, and is offering the concept that brute force selling (though not optimal) will trump hanging in the wind.
I agree, up to a point. And then I agree with you pure A.
I call it "scraping".
Where you brute force sell without any real market knowledge, or market power (ability to connect with your market)
And you keep re-iterating the sales process to scrape together a solution.
It can build a million dollar biz, but it will kill your margins with labor or costs.
There is a MINDSET you need to achieve beyond "scraping" and it is WHY you are scraping. Is it for cash? Or is it to run a great business? Scraping can give a little cushion to the budget to help flip a startup into a real business with good margins, IF over that time you better your products and services and create a vision that will work at scale.
If you achieve that understanding your biz will head toward 10mil as you scale it, which is about the freedom mark these days.
I don't recommend scraping things together really because most people just create debt.
You have to have enough vision, even if you scrape.
Getting to that threshold is the same as actually wanting to be in business.
You gotta want to stay with it, imo.
Damn it, i didn´t mean you have to sell door to door.There is a MINDSET you need to achieve beyond "scraping"
“People find that hard sometimes, but my attitude about money is it’s binary - black and white. Either you make it or you lose it,” he explains. “So why lie to people about it, particularly if they are putting their own families’ assets in harm's way, which is often the case on Shark Tank?[don´t forget to go "all in" and be homeless later...] I’d rather just say it's a stupid idea; it's going to zero; take it behind the barn and shoot it.”
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