Believe in Yourself with 3 Simple Steps

The first time you think about a business, you are probably driven by passion and excitement of running one. You are about to run your own show, be your own boss and all the benefits that comes with it. Problems are mostly identified as risks. You don’t know how it will work out – no matter how smart you are, future is based on probabilities. It makes your business ambiguous at best.

Business doesn’t always works out, and whether you like it or not, you’d have to pay the bills. It is high risks high reward kind of thing. Some motivational speakers says you should bet big in order to be at your best. Others will say you need a safety net, in case things doesn’t work out. In other case, being in the middle of it makes you the best in the market.

It is doing what you do best, the way only you can. It identifies you and helps you segment the market. For you to please anyone, identify them. The more specific you are, the better you are at identifying the people you want to please. This is one way to live up to Bill Cosby’s quote, “I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” 

A failed business starts your path to success. It gives you intimate knowledge about the failure. If you sits down and study it, and your feelings is overwhelming, that’s when it is hardest. It’s not the strategic decisions that mostly affect you, but the personal feelings playing a more significant role. This is the place, I need you to believe in yourself. I know that it is easy to sit on the sideline, and say that. But it might be harder to say when I put myself in your position. But he whom dwell in negativities is caged.

Billy Connolly said, “Before you judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes.” This is how we get full understanding of things, and how to excel your capabilities. It is not about how many times you’ve failed, nobody cares about that. The truth is most successful companies have failure in their history. It’s either you don’t know about them or they keep it private. The world is filled with optimistic spirit. But every negative event represents challenge, and each one makes you stronger and better. For you to believe in yourself, I need you to do 3 things.

1.      Learn from your past

Look at what happened in every failure, and learn from it. Remember, creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, and art is deciding which ones to keep.

2.      Let go of your past

One great way to do this is look at your life history. Acknowledge what happened when you make mistakes, emphasizing the problem doesn’t help. Just let it go, because nothing is lost, when you learned lessons. Holding on to past failure when you’ve learned from it do more damage than good.

3.      Focus on the future

You have intimate knowledge about what you have been through. You experienced the consequences, which feels like the only return on investment. You’d got more though. You get better, stronger, and smarter with it. It is a reward itself. If we’ve learned from a mistake, then we have to get better and have a better future.

Oscar Wilde says it best, “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future”. In conclusion, let go of your past and believe that the dark history enlightens weaknesses. You need to know them, to know where to improve, and every dark past is your path to start working on the future.