BUSINESS
LEAD LIKE A LION
Not A Mouse
T
he thing about business is that you are always tested about knowing yourself, knowing
your own inherent value, learning to not take things personally, to see our set backs and
even our failures as opportunities.
Many people who start their own business put their value on external factors, such as
seeking validation in the form of other people’s praise. Putting one’s own sense of value
in another person’s hands is essentially giving away our own potency; it’s the difference
between acting like a mouse and acting like a lion.
A business cannot run when being led by a mouse. It needs a lion heart to truly be successful. For example, I have a friend that started a cranial healing practice. This person
spent a lot of time getting accredited and put an equal amount of time into making a
sales presentation program. This person then proceeded to build a client base and made
a sales pitch to a hospital. The hospital said no and the clients weren’t coming through
the door as quickly as hoped for. This rejection was enough to make this person make the
decision that there was not a support system for her business, and she closed up shop. She
is not alone in this type of thinking. Statistically, three out of four startups fail within the first
three years. Many fail because they place their own value on external factors and react
to their external environment like mice rather than lions.
When I talk about being fierce business, people often mistake fierceness for aggressiveness and associate fierce business practice with hostile takeovers. Being fierce in business