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6 Business Skills To Master As An Entrepreneur by sammytee30(m): 6:01pm On Aug 23, 2016
Find Your Focus.
Entrepreneurs tend to have what I call EADD: Entrepreneurial Attention Deficit Disorder. They are all over the place, they have shiny object syndrome... and that's because they're creative! Entrepreneurs are visionaries. One thing they are often missing, however, is follow-through. If you've got a bakery, you're a business coach and you also make jewelry, where is your passion? Where are you really able to dive deeply in order to see something through to its best outcome? You can certainly build more than one thriving business over your lifetime, but if you're trying to do them all at once, you aren't giving your all to any.

Jump In with both feet.
As entrepreneurs, you have to be willing to go into uncharted territory, to do what others haven't and what they may even be discouraging us from doing. Generally, as humans, we fear change. Our brain is wired to protect us and we get that fight-or-flight response when we encounter something that's out of our comfort zone - even if it's good for us! We have to be willing to do things that feel risky in order to get the big rewards for ourselves and our businesses. Usually the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward will be. Don't just test the water, Jump in with both feet! If you only "sort of" jump off of the diving board, you'll do a belly flop. The support you need will come, but you have to commit to that initial leap of faith.

Don't take "no" for an answer.
When you start planning something really big, you can expect to encounter big resistance - people telling you it will never work and rejecting your ideas. Stick with it! Don't take "no" for an answer. When people tell you no, or tell you that your idea can't be done, take note that the path you started down hit a roadblock but keep your focus and find a new way forward. Maybe your product does need work. Maybe you're talking to the wrong market. Maybe the packaging isn't right. None of these mean that it won't succeed; it simply means that you have to go back to the drawing board on some aspect of your idea to find that "yes."


Forget about perfection.
A lot of business owners get stuck on perfectionism. That is just not how business works. You simply need to move forward, throwing things at the wall to see what sticks and tweaking along the way. Be okay with making mistakes. Otherwise, you will be stuck in the development phase forever and you'll never get your product or service out there. Most successful entrepreneurs have numerous failures before they finally find their ultimate success. The same goes for authors who send out their manuscript to rejection after rejection before finally getting published. Keep moving, and don't give up!

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