Planning on starting a business today? Whoa...hold on for just a minute! Have you thought about your future? Do you have a realistic picture of what success is going to look like for you?
Building a business is easy; building a business that matches your future might not be quite so. Here's the thing-too many entrepreneurs that eventually go on to fail will tell exactly what the problem was...for most, it was that they jumped in and started aimlessly plowing forward.
Now, this isn't always wrong. In fact, for some entrepreneurs with this kind of go-getter attitude, they'll even end up with a long list of prospects and more sales than they know what to do with in no time at all. Sounds like a good problem to have, right?
Well, not necessarily.
All too often, those that make the choice to plow right into their new business without a plan find nearly immediate successes, only to become totally overwhelmed and gradually flounder out of the business. The stress-factor alone of trying to do it all, keep the business moving forward and profitable, while working 18 hour days leads many of these hard-working entrepreneurs to believe that it's simply not all possible-many secretly even wish they could have their old 9-5 job back.
It's a scary thought, but there's a really good way to avoid this pattern of sizzle and fizzle.
Right from the very beginning-from the very first inkling you have that you're going to go in business for yourself and become a wildly successful entrepreneur and leader-you've got to slow things down just a little bit. Not enough to lose the drive, but certainly long enough to develop a vision of your future and establish a basic outlined plan on how you're going to get there (and stay there).
The plan doesn't have to be fancy.
In other words, it's not essential to have a 25 page business plan that covers all of the financial targets and so on. You might want or need this a bit further down the road, but for now what you need is a simple but visionary outline of your picture of success. A few questions to ask when drafting your own unique plan would include:
Self-made business leaders and entrepreneurs that have made their own success will reliably agree that in order to avoid working yourself in circles until you just can't spin any more, you've got to first establish a vision of your future, and only then build your business to match.
Building a business is easy; building a business that matches your future might not be quite so. Here's the thing-too many entrepreneurs that eventually go on to fail will tell exactly what the problem was...for most, it was that they jumped in and started aimlessly plowing forward.
Now, this isn't always wrong. In fact, for some entrepreneurs with this kind of go-getter attitude, they'll even end up with a long list of prospects and more sales than they know what to do with in no time at all. Sounds like a good problem to have, right?
Well, not necessarily.
All too often, those that make the choice to plow right into their new business without a plan find nearly immediate successes, only to become totally overwhelmed and gradually flounder out of the business. The stress-factor alone of trying to do it all, keep the business moving forward and profitable, while working 18 hour days leads many of these hard-working entrepreneurs to believe that it's simply not all possible-many secretly even wish they could have their old 9-5 job back.
It's a scary thought, but there's a really good way to avoid this pattern of sizzle and fizzle.
Right from the very beginning-from the very first inkling you have that you're going to go in business for yourself and become a wildly successful entrepreneur and leader-you've got to slow things down just a little bit. Not enough to lose the drive, but certainly long enough to develop a vision of your future and establish a basic outlined plan on how you're going to get there (and stay there).
The plan doesn't have to be fancy.
In other words, it's not essential to have a 25 page business plan that covers all of the financial targets and so on. You might want or need this a bit further down the road, but for now what you need is a simple but visionary outline of your picture of success. A few questions to ask when drafting your own unique plan would include:
- Do you want to eventually sell the business?
- Planning on doing all of the day-to-day work by yourself, or are you going to have employees to do it for you?
- Who's going to manage those employees?
- Are you planning on taking a completely do-it-yourself approach?
- Do you have the financing in place to achieve your business goals?
- If not, how will you obtain the financing?
- Perhaps your goal is to create a turn-key operation that runs itself-what systems will you need to put in place to make this possible?
Self-made business leaders and entrepreneurs that have made their own success will reliably agree that in order to avoid working yourself in circles until you just can't spin any more, you've got to first establish a vision of your future, and only then build your business to match.
Dr. Bob Clarke is an online marketing and branding expert who teaches his team of new and experienced entrepreneurs the secrets of selling anything to anyone, anywhere in the world.
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