This post welcomes and is dedicated to:
- Your business successes
- Small business anecdotes
- Lessons learned
- Unfortunate events
- Unofficial AMAs
- Links to outstanding educational materials (with explanations and/or an extract of the content)
In this post, share your small business experience, successes, failures, AMAs, and lessons learned. Week of December 9, 2019 /r/smallbusiness is one of a very few subs where people can ask questions about operating their small business. To let that happen the main sub is dedicated to answering questions about subscriber’s own small businesses.
Many people also want to talk about things which are not specific questions about their own business. We don’t want to disappoint those subscribers and provide this post as a place to share that content without overwhelming specific and often less popular simple questions.
This isn’t a license to spam the thread. Business promotion and free giveaways are welcome only in the Promote Your Business thread. Thinly-veiled website or video promoting posts will be removed as blogspam.
Discussion of this policy and the purpose of the sub is welcome at https://www.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/ana6hg/psa_welcome_to_rsmallbusiness_we_are_dedicated_to/
AM I GOOD ENOUGH AT WHAT I DO?
Every business owner, influencer, entrepreneur I’ve learned about has always gone through the various phases of doubt.
“I’m not good enough”
“I Don’t know enough”
“ I’m not as good as Mr/Mrs So-And-So”
“I’ll never get to that point in my life”
Myself included.
And that’s natural. Our minds don’t think the best things all the time 24/7. If only, right? But what we can do is convince our minds that we are enough, that we are capable, that we do have the ability and the confidence to crush the game.
Many will conclude that their success is based off of the results that they get. But that is not completely true. True success doesn’t stem from the ability to have a lot money, a lot of followers, a huge company. True success is just failing less often. Maybe one day, you’ll fail so less that you’ll actually be good at it. However, your persistence, your endurance, your ability to say to yourself “well im not getting the results i want, but i want it so bad that im gonna keep doing it regardless of what people say to me” will allow you to achieve something way beyond anything you can create in this world.
Your self worth and your self confidence is what drives the brand. When you can take what you have and work with it and make the best of the situation, then you put yourself at an advantage versus everyone else. Poeple like to think that they need the best equipment, they need the best people, they need the best training. Hehe funny story, you don’t necessarily need those things… I guarantee there are services out there that allow you to do the things you want to do… for example, want to market? Well you have social media that allows you to do that for the fair price of $0. Wil you have to put in the work? You betcha. Wiil it be worth it in the end? Even more so.
So pick and choose your battles. Are you willing to struggle even though the payoff will be worth it?
Find that energy within you that pushes you to endure. Everyone has it in them. You might need someone else to reveal it for you. But i know for a fact that you do have it, and it’s waiting to be unleashed.
So go out there and find it. And crush the game 🤙🏽