What if I told you that everything you have dreamed about is just on the other side of … (insert bugle sound) your fears. Oh, that lands like a punch to the gut for us entrepreneurs. We know it. We feel it. But we hate to HEAR it. Mostly because we tend to see ourselves as pretty fearless folks, right? Aren’t we the ones who left our “secure” job? (Don’t even get me started on that one.). Aren’t we the ones who followed our dreams into the wild, blue yonder?!
Well, yes. And no. We started with our shoulders back, cape blowing in the wind. But somewhere down the line (maybe after the 1186th “no”), the wind seemed to change direction. Our strut turned into a bit of a limp. Our resolve waned. The Little Dictator in our head began to get louder. And louder. “See. Told ya. You never had what it takes. Your old man was right. Pshh. Why don’t you just throw in the towel? Loser.”
Sound familiar? Well, friend – you have two choices, three actually. Keep going like you’re going until you finally admit defeat, go back to punching a clock and working for someone else’s dream, or hire a coach! A coach can look into your situation from the outside and tell you exactly what you need to tweak in about…oh, 28 seconds. Athletes at the top of their game have coaches their whole career but entrepreneurs “trying to figure it out” insist we can do it alone. A good coach knows exactly what to say to draw the fighter out of us.
Fear has no place in the mind of an entrepreneur. It can ruin us! Hiring a coach was the best investment I ever made. Asking for help doesn’t make you weak, it makes you wealth 😉
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