Focus On Success June 2013 | Page 15

When all is lost or You Think it is!

One of the great and frustrating parts of being an Entrepreneur is that most of the time, your idea and your dream has holes in it. The challenging part of this equation is to not look at the holes as a devastating event!
When I started my journey of Entrepreneurship or as some of my family have called it( not a real vocation), I had in my head that you get the idea, you plan and sell it and make money out of it. Now that is a pretty simple way to understand what an Entrepreneur does.
The other fascinating thought was you place ads everywhere you can people see it and they buy it and then you make lots of money. It all sounds easy, does it! After all simple ideas, easy explained descriptions and a great looking idea or product sell don’ t they?
What happens when no one wants to buy your idea?????
• Do you go on a campaign of convincing people? If you think it is great, maybe!
• Do you ask right people why they didn’ t buy your product? I would say yes!
• Do you shelve the product and hide from society! So people have!
• Do you accept the criticism and redesign your idea!
• Or do you accept defeat?
There are probably hundreds of questions like this you can ask yourself. Each one of them has merit to some degree; each one will give you doubts and have you questioning your ability. The big question for an Entrepreneur is do you believe you