Self-Awareness: How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur
Two young CEOs, Boris Poletan, (CEO Buzzbox) and Suraj Vaghjiani, (CEO Wrappli) have identified self-awareness as the actual game plan to become a successful entrepreneur. Buzzbox builds businesses and provides quality insight on how you can improve your relationship with customers while Wrappli pays car owners to have adverts on your cars.
Key Factors that Drive Success
One of the ways you learn to achieve success as your own boss is through self-awareness. You need to know how to train your mind to know how to handle burnout, stay motivated, and take action when you have ideas.
Begin Your Day with a Meeting with “Yourself”
Negative thoughts from your previous day may cloud your mind and try to invade your goals for the new day. But starting your day with some time with yourself, to understand who you are and be grateful for what you have, goes a long way in putting your mind in the right direction. Yoga and meditation can be perfect activities to help you achieve this.
Remain Motivated
Being a CEO comes with challenges, talks, and pressures. But you need to know what you want to do with your life, else you’ll be stuck with a nine-to-five job. Irrespective of the burnout that you feel along the way, you often feel motivated when you’re doing something you love.
Set Goals
When you have a strong goal, irrespective of your age, you’ll naturally remain inspired to achieve it. Besides, your perspective about each day goes a long way. Even if something goes wrong at the start of your day, you can learn to ignore it and concentrate on the bigger things you hope to achieve. Learn to replace minor things with major goals.
Focus on Your Purpose
No matter how much you earn, money can’t solve your problems. Your $70,000 yearly income cannot answer the real questions that pertain to your goals and fulfilling them. In fact, don’t believe the lie that money can compensate for your burnout and overworked life. Focus on achieving something greater than just your pay.
Interact with Likeminded People
Many people spend time talking about successful people and their strategies; yet, they do nothing to improve their own lives or achieve their goals. It’s good to talk about Elon Musk or Steve Jobs. But it’s not enough to just focus on what they did right.
Interacting with likeminded people helps you to get their true perspective about things and unique ways through which you can achieve your purpose.
Make Firm Decisions
People we call successful entrepreneurs today didn’t get up there by chance. They worked for it. They made sacrifices, took their stand on what they wanted, and were resilient in the face of defeat.
Perseverance also plays a big part in being a successful entrepreneur. You may not have all the experience you need to get started. But you’ve got to make the move to start somewhere, and follow through.
Have the zeal to immerse yourself in whatever matters at a particular time. Plus, you don’t have to be an expert in a field to solve a problem in that field. Follow the passion you feel and get knowledge about that thing.
Take Action
Don’t wait till the time is perfect before you start your business, follow your workout goals or get serious about your hobby. The more time you spend planning, the more time you lose. Just start and the plans will fall into place. Take action immediately. Learn something about that thing you have in mind. Shopify is one great place to gather skills and ideas.
Always be curious because curiosity generates ideas. If an idea pops into your mind, do a Google search on “how to-” whatever it is. Gather resources. And spend more time listening to entrepreneurs who are still in the process of finding success.
Most of all, don’t be afraid to fail. See failure as a reason to learn or do something. As Henry Ford says “whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” Take action on that idea. Start taking steps and don’t be held back by what anyone thinks. ACT now!