10 things a business owner should do EVERYDAY to move their business forward are as follows:
1. Be Fearless: Want to know why becoming successful in a business venture is considered such a daunting feat by society? While there are obvious hurdles to face, one of the biggest challenges is in overcoming the fear of jumping into a business in the first place. Most people dream all day about launching a successful business while watching the clock tick at their mundane day jobs. The reason they never quit the security of a paycheck is because they are too scared by the unknown that comes with starting a business. If you want to separate yourself from that crowd, you need to learn how to manage your own fears. Do not worry, you are not alone.
2. Understand Finance: Now, people all the time will talk about how a well-known business brand started at one time in someone's basement or garage, so much that it's become a romantic notion of sorts that going from rags-to-riches is what really identifies a true entrepreneur. The reality of most successful businesses’ ventures could not be farther from the truth - if you want to make it, you are going to need money. However, that doesn't necessarily mean you need to have a lot of it when you're just getting started, but more importantly understanding how finance works and how to use your money to grow in the smartest way.
3. Grow as A Leader: Once you harness your fears and make the leap to starting a business, you have already begun the journey of becoming a leader. Many of us hold successful entrepreneurs on a pedestal much like football fans hold a star quarterback or wide receiver in high regard. However, there is always a team that these individuals lead that ultimately leads to their success. You must learn how to be a leader on some kind of level in order to motivate others to join you in your venture, believe in what you preach, or give you money for a product or service that you offer. Just because you need to possess leadership qualities does not mean that everybody successful in business must be the CEO, face of the company, or person “in charge”.
4. Use Your Leverage: One of the greatest challenges that will stand in the way of an entrepreneur from getting what they want is understanding what “to do” with the opportunities that fall in their laps along the way. This is where leverage becomes such an important concept that people going into business need to understand, and it takes a certain kind of mind to think “outside the box” in situations to find the value in a new relationship or circumstance. The same people who are too scared to quit their day jobs are also the same people who do not know how to leverage the assets and relationships in their life. A successful entrepreneur, on the other hand, is constantly finding ways to create profits and new opportunities each day.
5. Acquire Partners: To achieve greatness as a leader, one must then have a team of individuals who believe in the mission to move forward. That is where assembling a great team of partners plays such an important role in any profitable business. Many start out alone and the wearer of many hats, but a business can only scale so far if there is only one source of energy, of inspiration, and of the actual sweat equity it takes to keep the lights on. As we will see in understanding the meaning of success both in business and in life, a true business owner is one who does not need to be a part of the day-to-day operations in order for the business to run and stay profitable.
6. Having the Right Attitude: So far, we've discussed some of the most important concepts you need to understand in order to achieve success in business - but how do you exactly justify what is true success? Is it money, or sales, or the influence your actions have over the environment around you? Ultimately real success in business only matters if it also equates to success in life, and that all starts with having the right attitude towards it. Nobody cares about those who are rich but hate the world they live in. Everyone knows the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, the jaded old man that had all the money in the world but did nothing but create misery for others.
7. Showing Gratitude: We live in a world that is changing each day, at a speed that any of us can deeply appreciate. Technology over the last 30-50 years has altered the way we communicate not only with our neighbour and loved ones but our business contacts around the world. The generations that have grown up with this technology often take it for granted, never once stopping to “smell the roses” and to realize that they live in an amazing time in history and that much of what they have in their lives - everything from the electricity powering their lights, the cars that help them get to their next meeting, to their smartphones in their pockets are all things they should very much be thankful for.
8. Staying Healthy: Your money and success are not going to do you any good if you're not around to use it - so why would you live your life so dangerously that you would sacrifice your health? What good is all the passion you have for your business dreams if you are not going to be around to see them come true? Too many of us get caught up in the game of life that we never think about the damage we all do to our bodies along the way. As entrepreneurs our days are so full of work and juggling projects that are lunch breaks become mere small breaks in the day where we shove fast food down our throats to get rid of our hunger.
9. Keeping the Right Friends: What's the point of doing anything if you do not have special people in your life to share it with. No one wants to be the Bruce Wayne of their city, the quack who owns the huge dining room table with no one to dine with. People are social by nature, and it is important to have a life outside of those you work with.
10. The Importance of Family: Most will begin the journey with dollar signs in their eyes or seeking some level of power. Many times, these things are personal and selfish, but one who is seeking true success in their lives will be doing so not just to share with their friends, but more importantly their families.
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