To beat paralysis and get started on your authentic business you first need to master the inner game of business.
What you're thinking and feeling has direct impact on the actions you are or are not taking.
Use this guide as a business startup list to be sure that you're looking for wisdom in the right direction.
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Exploit Your Authentic Edge Your edge, or marketplace advantage, comes directly from your willingness to move into your authentic power.
Authentic business building is the willingness to start and maintain a business strategically from your core makeup.
Your best business ideas will come from within.
Quit looking outside of yourself for confirmation and approval.
Start with accepting this premise; the marketplace rewards authentic expression.
Your small business idea came to you and that means that you are in the best position to make it happen.
Trust your gut.
Confidence attracts support and confidence increases in proportion to authentic engagement.
A true calling inspired business is the only way to go.
When we plan our startup around the strong foundation of a true calling both fulfillment and prosperity abound.
2).
Slow and Small Is Better Than Not At All What the hell are you waiting for? Delay is costly - start, complete and sell one small project, product or service.
The speed and size of your initial success isn't as important as completion.
Part-time works if it works for you.
Create your own transition model and follow it.
Decide on your tolerance for risk and your need for a financial/emotional reserve.
If you don't fear shoestring business building - go for it.
If you require more back up, secure that first.
Decide what works for you and what you need in order to be your best.
3).
Embrace Mistake-Making Count on learning from your frequent mistakes.
Let go of the illusion of building the perfect product, business or service.
Especially let go of the notion that you need the perfect business plan to startup your business.
You don't need the perfect business plan.
You do need to start with what you have now even if it's nothing more than your best guess.
Accept the likelihood that you'll screw up repeatedly and that's what your supposed to be doing.
Those screw-ups will be loaded with fresh realizations and opportunities that you can't see now.
Let the marketplace highlight necessary adjustments.
It's impossible to reach perfection in your own mind or in your business plan.
Take your show on the road and evolve from customer feedback.
4).
Stay Present - Visualize Success The only place you can actually build your business is in the now.
Always ask this question.
What am I looking to accomplish right now? Then take that action and work from there.
If you must engage in future thinking then decide to only do positive visioning.
This means, that you refuse to even contemplate any fearful future.
Fear of failure and fear of success can only exist if you feed them with fearful future thoughts.
Become aware of your dominant thoughts and let go of anything limiting.
What you think about comes about, so choose as if your business life depended on it.
5).
Be a Merchant - Ask for the Money If you intend to be a successful businessperson, you've got to get past the fear of asking for the order.
You've got to start somewhere.
Produce something small and ask someone to buy it.
Your fear about self-worth, like "who am I to be asking for this business," fades, once you've asked a few times.
Fear of asking for the money fades once you create and express authentically.
You only fear asking now because your start needs more authentic edge.
Sell the thing that only you can create and the fear will lessen.
6).
Any Movement Works Any strategic movement works because it creates a fresh perspective that's very different from the one that keeps you stuck.
All you need is an authentic idea and an approach that you will follow-through on.
The only wrong move is standing pat.
You can't get there from here, is only true if you're not in motion.
Fortune favors the bold primarily because the bold are moving.
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Draw Courage from Your What & Why Too many budding entrepreneurs want to first "figure it all out".
That's an illusion.
You can't "figure it all out," before hand, in mind alone.
Get out of your "how-to" directed mind and into you "what and why" inspired mind.
What you want to build and your reasons for building it, will do far more to inspire you to action than a fruitless search for how-to.
Then once you commit and take action, your optimum path "how-to" appears, as a result of your actions but not before them.
Which action do you need to engage the most right now? Do that and you'll have a successful business startup.
Align all seven and you'll be soaring.