Most Small Businesses Take Time for Success
Almost everyone, when they begin a small business, want instant success. This would be the ideal situation…having your business take off profitably from the start with no challenges nor setbacks. However, the ideal doesn’t usually work out in life, although there are some exceptions.
For some people, success comes sooner because:
- They’ve given more thought to planning their business before starting
- They have more investment capital of their own
- They have business knowledge
- They have a product or service that appeals in today’s market (often because of their previous research)
- They are willing to put in hours and hours of work themselves
- They get advice and try to avoid the pitfalls of others
However, no matter what you’re doing or how well you seem to get started, be sure you have patience. Most businesses take time for success and to earn you money. So many people give up when there’s not immediate success because they’ve heard about the seemingly “instant success” ones.
What have you found that helped you keep going midst odds?
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Something that Oprah said has always stayed with me: obstacles are just opportunities in disguise. And this one from my husband, who had it engraved on a crystal clear clock with my company logo: The Dream is Clear, To Believe is the Reward!
Thank you, Stacey, for stopping by Small Business Boomers and sharing your thoughts. I like both of the quotes…Oprah’s and your husband’s.
Yes, believe in your goals and yourself!
In all aspect of starting or having a business, the risk of losing at first is always present. Success does not happen instantly but if you will never give up and would try all means to make it successful, then you will be successful indeed.
Thanks, Jeny, for sharing your views on this. Yes, persistence in developing a business goes a great way toward success. Perhaps boomers realize this better than younger people who have grown up in the “instant” world.
True Mary Emma, we young people sometimes are very impatient. When it comes to business, young or boomers, we all should practice patience if success is our goal for our business. Sometimes success comes in later and if we are never patient or persistent enough, then we will never see it. Boomers are very patient, mostly i believed.