Here's how to start a business and how to succeed in business...
The only way I know and the only way that I see others succeed: absolute obsession.
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Here is how I went from an average entrepreneur to someone who stuck to something and succeeded.
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When I graduated college, I saw how everyone started looking for average jobs. I did not want to be an average guy and that is why I took a completely different path. I started trying different business models. My first two years in business were like a nightmare for me. I failed miserably and I went to debt.
Very successful entrepreneurs do not follow the path of dabbling. All the people on their way to success are always obsessed about something, they think about it, implement it and become good at it.
Here is Alla’s story and she got into business:
I was always interested in fashion, photography, sometimes I am a model and sometimes I take the shoots myself.
I was living in my mom’s apartment for a while and I did not want to undertake anything for my life. My mother noticed that and offered me to move to another country and start building a business that I am passionate about. I was very interested in fashion and photography and my work became to a point that I was not able to differentiate my business and my personal life.
The thought of working a 9 to 5 job is completely out of my mind. The feeling of the freedom that I have now is absolutely fantastic. I can work whenever I want to. Even sometimes when I hang out with my friends, I reply to clients on the phone and I do not feel like that is work, because that is what I love to do. I always talk about business. That is the main topic that I can talk about all day long.
You can lose some of your friends, but your best friends will stay behind you and support you in difficult times. Even if they are too few, there are a lot of people in this world and you can always find new friends.
If you work on Saturday and Sunday and that is not a problem for you, that means that you are obsessed about your work and that means that you can build something out of that.
Aleks: If you love what you are doing there is nothing that can stop you of doing it. You can work a whole day and do not feel it as a work at all. When I was starting my mastermind, I was building my business all day long. I was filming videos every single day. My friends were amazed at my willingness and power to work on something so hard that has no certainty that it will succeed. I was every single day closing sales and shouting at other people on the phone.
When I was going out with friends and girls, I was always talking about business and asking taxi drivers and waiters questions about business. I was absolutely obsessed about that because I had to figure it out. That was the only thing that mattered in my life. Even my health suffered a little bit because of my obsession about business.
If you want to go into a business that has no correlation with your interests, you are not going to make it. You are not going to be a very successful business owner if you pick a niche that you do not care about. There is no way you can convince someone to buy something that you have no feelings for.
There is a possibility to lose some friends, but that is natural. You can find new friends. If you are a business owner and you have built something for yourself, people respect you more and your influence in the world goes up.
If you try a new business model every week, you will never succeed at anything. You have to build just one business that is really successful.
