Overcoming Frustration and Obstacles In Your New Business

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

Starting out is always the exciting, endless possibilities of your new business. Your hopes and your dreams and how you visualize yourself in the near future of owning and making money in your business is what drives and motivates you to do it. What a lot of people fall trap to are the obstacles encountered along the way, and when those obstacles come, how you handle them is the most important aspect of your business.

You WILL have obstacles, because they are inevitable. How you choose to deal with them is what counts. Some examples of obstacles could be, merchant accounts and collecting payment. Another could be training needed to generate traffic. And another example comes from lack of a support system. Maybe you are experiencing friction at home or within a group of friends and family who really don’t support your enthusiasm the way you do. Another is repeated failure where you see it as just that, a failure. But, if you looked at it a little differently, instead see it as opportunity to learn and grow it would be easier to make money.

Obstacles are inevitable, but also are short lived as long as you take the right actions.  Most people get frustrated and quit at the first sign of trouble, but if you follow a few little steps that have helped me in the past you can overcome each obstacle you encounter no matter where you are in your business.

Starting out, making no money and working too hard for what seems like little benefit in the beginning is tough. First thing to know is this, you are not alone. Many, many others are in the same situation as you are in and that many have gotten through it to become successful. They did it so you can too. Everyone who ever started out, everyone who is earning 5 and 6 figures a month started out just like you. Some worked their ass off for years and went broke long before they even made a break through. Many of the top earners came close to giving up until they realized one really really important thing.

It really is true, that if you put your mind to it, you can have anything you want in life. It might be a hard road for you, but if you want it bad enough, you will achieve it. Here is the problem and the difference between the ones who break through and get success and the ones who quit or jump from one program to the next (shiny object syndrome). The ones who break through have belief. They believe in what they are doing and they believe in themselves. They see themselves as entrepreneurs and being wealthy even when they are still broke.

Your Personal Formula For Success

So make a decision right now, do you want to be truly free or live in 21st century slavery until maybe a day you can retire old and rickety. Because, when you are trading time for money that is exactly what it is. Unless you love your job, and living in mediocrity which I doubt otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this, you’d be reading something different right? Just like the name of this blog “Forget plan B” that is what you have to do. When you start your online business and you automatically are thinking you need a plan B in case you fail, you will fail. Having a plan b is an automatic predisposition of failure for yourself. Saying things or even thinking things like “I’ll try, I hope” will kill success faster than anything. You have to say and believe in 100% conviction no matter how broke you are, “I will Succeed, I will be wealthy and live the life most people only dream about”

Once you believe this, you will be unstoppable. But remember that just saying these words is not enough because like I said you have to believe it. Positive thinking alone doesn’t work. You can’t just “Stuart Smally” yourself in the mirror every day trying to trick yourself, it doesn’t work that way. Here are the real “secrets” to success.

The first obstacle that I personally had to overcome and it’s pretty much a common thing:

Negativity was the first problem. My own and my environment. I had to first stop my own negative thoughts and eliminate all negativity out of my life. If you have a tenancy to complain about stuff, remember you are responsible for your success or failure, no one else is. Don’t tolerate negativity in your life……ever! I’ll tell you the steps to take to handle this in a moment.

Believe in yourself. If you have someone in your life that supports you 100% and believes in you, you are in great shape right now because that will make things easier to get the success faster. Unfortunately that isn’t the case for many of us. You might come into resistance from family, friends or a spouse thinking you are wasting your time, and you should be happy with who you are and what you have. That works for some people, but I’ll tell you this, I always knew I was destined for bigger better things and being wealthy was definitely something I wanted. Now, it’s important to understand that you’ll need support from somewhere if you are getting discouraged, because that leads to being unfocused. So the thing that will help you is to get a mentor .

A mentor is someone who you can emulate, learn from and follow their lead. You don’t have to physically know this person you just need to follow what they are saying and doing.(They also should be making way more money than you) otherwise there is no point following another broke person.

The way to overcome the negativity and gain belief in yourself is through the process of personal development. You need to work on you first before you can achieve what you want. Here is an exercise to do to get to a level of where nothing anyone says to you in a negative way can possibly sway your confidence and belief. Here is what you do: It’s called the 30/30/30.

Important note:   You must not miss a day or you’ll need to go back and start from day one again. So for 1 hour out of your day this is what you do.

I promise you one thing, if you do this you WILL be a different person after 30 days. Doing this is important if you are plagued with negative thoughts that you follow this even if you think it is silly. What you are doing is creating good habits to replace all the bad habits. That is all there is to it. Once you begin to believe in yourself you will become more successful each day. Now, what do you read and what videos to watch?

The books I would start with are these: Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill. and Secrets of a Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker.

For videos, you can go to YouTube and there are thousands of videos and seminars by Les Brown, Tony Robbins and tons more.

To deal with resistance and negativity if you are in a naturally bad environment, the best advice is to just get through it. Follow the 30/30/30 no matter what and you will build a strong mind and belief in yourself that will be unshakeable no matter what your situation is.

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