7 Keys to Failing in Your Business (Avoid Like The plague)

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Did you know one of the best ways to learn something new is to fail at it, to fall down and get back up, to dust yourself off and learn from your mistakes?

Failing forward will ultimately lead to success if you never give up and stay consistent with your goals and dreams whatever they may be.

Well today I want to share with you some of the major key’s to failing in your business that I’ve stumbled upon along the way that way you can take note of them and avoid them like the plague.

Seven Keys To Failing In Your Business

1 – Distractions

It doesn’t matter what type of situation you’re currently building your business in there are going to be distractions whether there smaller one’s like a friend popping around when you’re trying to finish that blog post or larger ones such as your girlfriend wanting you to take the day off to do something with her, etc.

Distractions are not only a part of everyday life sadly enough they are also a part of your business as well that is why it’s important to take the time to set out daily tasks which need to be completed before the day’s through then stay focused on completing them.

2 – Procrastination

Have you ever thought of a great blog post to write or a brilliant topic to create a video on but for some odd reason you find yourself cleaning then house or sorting your desk but never actually sitting down to your computer to do the work?

Well that’s procrastination and it will single handily bring your production to a grinding halt, when it comes to overcoming procrastination there’s no magic pill or affirmation that you can rant to make it go away you just have to suit up, show up and get busy with your daily tasks.

It’s called production and if you’re not doing this inside of your business then you’re not moving forward, start taking action TODAY and stop leaving it for tomorrow.

3 – Perfection

If it wasn’t for trying to be perfect all the time I would have had a lot more content out over the internet but believe it or not perfectionism is a REAL problem when marketing and building your business online.

My advice to you is to move fast break stuff just take action and get your content out there, if you’re forever trying to perfect your videos or write the perfect blog post you’re losing production and obviously that’s no good for business.

In all seriousness if your video, blog post, etc isn’t perfect who cares as long as you’re getting your content out there and your message across because I can tell you there will be people who watch your video’s or read your blog posts and think you’re a rock star.

Why? Because they’ve let distractions, procrastination, and/or perfectionism hold them back from actually creating their content and getting it out there for the people in internet land to see.

4 – Mindset

Being in the home based business industry is like being on an emotional roller coaster which will test the limits of your mindset and commitment.

You will have everything from your friends and family telling you to get a real job right through to the moments where you wonder whether you’re doing the right thing, depending on where you’re at in your business you may even quit before you even start making money.

If you’re already making some money you will have your highs and lows as you have big commission days, little commission days, and days where you make no commissions at all.

If you’re mindset isn’t strong and you don’t have a clear vision of what you’re trying to achieve in your business then it will be easy to let the distractions, procrastination and perfectionism stop you from taking action and moving you’re business forward.

This is why I HIGHLY recommend feeding your mind the right food and what I mean by that is listening to audios trainings, watching webinars, etc from leaders in this industry who already have what you’re trying to achieve.

Read books from leaders in the personal development niche so you can continue to grow and expand your mind instead of just letting all of the useless influences control your thoughts such as TV, that doubter that lives in your header, or the dream stealers around you, etc.

If you’re not constantly feeding your brain with information that is in alignment with your goals and dreams then it’s way too easy to get distracted and lose sight of what you’re trying to achieve, this is why I highly recommend listening to at least one audio per day and reading for at least 30 minutes per day this will keep your mind on the right track.

5 – Information Overload

Information overload is like a disease that plagues this industry killing people’s dreams of ever creating an internet lifestyle and with all of the information being uploaded to the internet each and every minute and hour of the day there’s no wonder people get overwhelmed and quit.

I created a blog post on information overload and how to defeat it you’re more than welcome to check it out: How to Stop Running Around Like A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off.

6 – Business Model

Just like an axe-men would use the sharpest axe to chop down trees you need to use the right business model to get into profit as soon as possible in order to scale up your business.

There are a lot of great business model out there but don’t get stuck building a business that doesn’t have a leveraged sales process that converts visitors into buyers, believe me this can hold you back dramatically because whether you like it or not you’re in the sales industry and if you’re not making sales you’re not paying the bills.

Preferably you want a leveraged business model that will allow you to make large commissions while you’re hanging out at the beach or fast asleep as opposed to being on the phone all day trying to close sales, you want leverage of a high converting sales process and the potential to make big commissions.

7 – Daily Action Plan

Most people flounder around with no real daily action plan to follow to build their business so they find themselves spinning their wheels and never turning a profit, this is why it’s so important to create a daily action plan for building your business.

Firstly you need to understand what’s needed in order to get paid with the business model you’re using.

For Example: If you have a high converting sales process where all you need to do in order to start making commissions is to drive traffic to your lead capture page and get people in front of your sales video then you’re daily action plan should be focused on driving targeted traffic.

So you would have to decide what marketing strategy you’re going to focus on for building your business then create a daily action plan.

This could be to:

• Create one keyword targeted blog post per day.
• Create one keyword targeted video per day.
• Connect with 10 like-minded people in Facebook per day.
• Join 10 Facebook groups per day.
• Etc

If you don’t know how to use the internet for driving traffic and generating leads then you need to start here.

Whatever you do be sure to first understand how you get paid and then create a daily action plan around what needs to be done then STICK TO IT, be consistent with build your business and you will see results.

“Conclusion”

Well there you have it, 7 Key’s to failing in your business and if you even let just one of these stand in your way then you’re going to struggle my friend so it’s important to:

Not let yourself get distracted.

Not let procrastination stop you from taking action.

Not try and be perfect all the time and just get your marketing out there.

Not let your mind get the better of you and feed it daily.

Not let information overload take over and gain clear focus.

Use a business model that has a leveraged high converting sales process.

Take the time to sit down and write out a clear daily action plan.

Tie all of these keys together and you will have every chance of creating the internet lifestyle that you’ve always dreamed of where the commissions are rolling in while you’re off sipping cocktails on the beach…

Happy Days!

Billee Brady

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