Hello fellow redditers, my name is Dan or "The Junkler", and I'm here to share a business lesson that I feel a good majority of all you "wantrepreneurs" could benefit from. This will be a longer post, so sit back, grab your popcorn, and I hope you all enjoy. We begin with a personal story,
I am currently the owner and writer of a fairly successful blog with over 60k unique views a month, I will not share the identity of the blog because that adds no value to the story. I have been running my own blog for just over a year now, and close friends and family have begun to take notice, in particular, one of my best friends. We will call this friend "Buddy" in order to keep his/her identity anonymous because again, his/her identity doesn't matter. Our story takes place 2 years ago.
So Buddy loved the idea of starting his own business, it was his dream. He would have the best nights sleep when he was dreaming of his successful business, being able to support himself by doing what he loved, it was his life's goal. Buddy is not a super technical individual, nor does he have dreams to make it into the sales/content world. He just wants to start a local handyman company.
His vision, for a company, is to have customers who have problems with... well, with anything, call him and request service. His idea is to literally be a "jack of all trades", being able to assist customers with hanging and mounting TV's to working on irrigation leaks in the yard. Since I am the only person Buddy knows that is making a living from being an entrepreneur, he came to me for business advice.
Buddy wasn't looking for a "magic" formula, but simply asking basic questions like, "How do business taxes work?" and "What are the legalities and laws of running your own company?". I would answer all his questions the best that I could, granted I'm no expert, and he seemed ready to work! We did not talk for a few weeks after that conversation, and I was excited to see Buddy's progress. We finally reached each other and I was ready to talk business! Buddy did not seem at all interested in talking about business until I would ask questions directly about them. My first question was, "How is your company going?", very basic question. He replied with, "Oh, I can't start my business now because..." I immediately knew where this conversation was going, I was about to sit there and listen to a close friend of mine tell me every excuse he could tell himself was true about why he couldn't achieve his goals.
I was right, Buddy went on and on. Excuse after excuse. "I can't because of...", "I would but...". I am not the type of person to sit back and accept peoples BS excuses, especially when they are close to me! I delved into each one of his excuses, trying to find solutions instead of more "buts", but it didn't seem to be working. Buddy was stuck in his ways and his ways were law. I couldn't sit there and try to help the un-helpable, so I wished him the best of luck with his idea, and that was the end of our talk.
Almost a year had past, I had grown my blog from a $28,000 a year company to a $36,000. It was not a lot of money, but I was doing what I loved and paying the bills doing so. I remember it was a slow day and I had hopped into a chat room many of my close friends used. Buddy, and a few others were in the chat room. We talked and laughed and discussed our personal lives and it was a great time, but after a little while Buddy asked my to join him in an empty chat room.
I joined and asked him if everything was okay, he said it was, but he wanted to talk about business. I said okay and Buddy began by telling me, "Well... I failed at making my dream come true.." I was confused by the statement, so he elaborated. He told me he could never get over the starting obstacles, he could never get enough cash to start his company, and overall he was disappointed in himself. Buddy was so over-encumbered by his personal excuses and disbelief in himself, that he allowed himself to be the biggest obstacle to achieving his dreams. I didn't pick his brain, I didn't tell him "I told you so", I simply and sternly said this,
"The moment you use an excuse to halt the growth of your "dreams", you lose."
Buddy was silent for a good minute or two, then he finally said this, "You're right, I am the only one to blame for my failures." Buddy had finally come to terms with the truth. After that, we talked about how we could better his business and actually get this idea off the ground. There were no more "buts" or "can'ts", Buddy was finally on the right track. A few weeks after that talk Buddy had worked his first job, he picked up a new couch for his customer, delivered it to his customers home, and built it for them. He received $50 for that job, but it was enough for him to realize how easy it is to earn money if you just put in the work.
Buddy's company slowly turned into a $400/m business, into a $9.5k/m business! A few weeks ago he was able to hire his second employee and he is on his way to making his dreams a reality. All he had to do was STOP GIVING YOURSELF EXCUSES!
We all have reasons why we can't, we do. But it's those of use that push through the BS that make it in this world! This doesn't even directly relate to entrepreneurs, this is a general life lesson.
So, the morale of this post is, don't try to justify to me or anyone else why your BS excuses are preventing you from achieving your dreams. There is always a way around!!! Go out and work.
[link] [comments]
from Entrepreneur http://ift.tt/2xMsBRn
via IFTTT
add adsense to blogger
how much money do bloggers make? can blogs make money? make money off ads how to get money from blogging? best websites to make money blog adsense income earn from blogging website ideas to make money how websites make money?
No hay comentarios.:
Publicar un comentario