Do excuses hold back your small business? You know, those self-limiting beliefs you carry around with you?
Forget about tried-and-true small business advice. You and I have likely heard the nuts-and-bolts practical tips many times over: Create helpful content, build relationships, and monetize through multiple income streams.
Following simple practical tips precedes blogging success over the long haul. But why do entrepreneurs struggle to grow their businesses if we all have access to simple tips for following?
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Making Excuses Masked as Limiting Beliefs Causes Business Failure
For example, publishing helpful blog content forms a strong foundation for a thriving small business. However, few entrepreneurs publish valuable content frequently. Why?
Limiting beliefs held in mind prevents entrepreneurs from creating blog content persistently. Perhaps writer’s block assails you. Or you fear being too promotional.
Maybe you fear being rejected. In all cases, each limiting belief sits squarely in your mind. Fear brings out your self-limiting beliefs quickly!
Limiting Beliefs and Fear
Being in the mind makes conquering the limiter simple. Face fears fueling each limiting belief. Release the fears. Build your small business from an empowered belief system. Become prolific. Promote yourself liberally. Embrace rejection as an opportunity to work with people who vibe with your small business.
Everything changes the moment you face limiting beliefs in mind for:
- observing
- analyzing
- releasing
Each idea feeding small business failure releases the source of your failures.
Get organized mentally to create a seamless small business work experience. Execution grows in ease as you clear your inner world.
Where Do Limiting Beliefs Come From? Go Within
Assess your mind before searching for a new strategy because the old one did not seem to work.
Small business pros offer simple, proven advice for a good reason. Proven advice executed generously for some time yields business profits.
However, if fear in your mind manifests limiting beliefs, you will not follow proven advice generously, patiently, and persistently until mining profits. Who has the problem?
Does the proven strategy successfully executed by pros possess the problem? Or does your mind create the problem?
Handling Problems
Every time problems arise in growing your venture, begin and end in mind. Find the issue by wading into small business limiting beliefs. Ease discomfort. Slowly disassemble fears to disassemble ideas damaging to your business.
Practical tips do nothing for entrepreneurs who are scared to execute the practical tips diligently over years. No one succeeds by skipping what successful small business owners do.
Receiving proven advice from pros gives you steps to follow to succeed. Stop looking for more advice because you have already received it. Stop resisting good advice from pros.
Do not quit following solid advice. Root out limiting beliefs concerning your small business and diligently follow good advice.
2 Common Small Business Limiting Beliefs
- I Have No Money to Start a Small Business
The online world offers you options for starting a small business on a budget:
- invest $240 to $300 per year in a domain and hosting
- invest $100 to $200 or less in a premium theme
For example, most people can invest at most $500 using a credit card, or perhaps dip into savings to invest in their future.
2. I Have No Connections to Start a Small Business
Good news! I, too, had no connections 13 years ago as a new small business owner.
Here’s what you do: earn connections by helping successful small business owners. Expect nothing in return. Ask for nothing in return. Earn their trust. Gain credibility in their eyes. Get connected by being genuine, generous, and persistent.
Most small business owners have no connections as newbie entrepreneurs because most are new to their fields. How do you know people from your field if you have never worked there?
Therefore, do what most of us do. Generously help successful entrepreneurs get connected for years.
Conclusion and Discussion: How To Change Limiting Beliefs
To change limiting beliefs, start by identifying them. Pay attention to thoughts that hold you back or make you feel stuck.
Ask yourself: “Is this true?” Then, replace these beliefs with more empowering ones. For example, if you think, “I’m bad at this,” try shifting it to, “I’m learning and improving.”
Repetition is key for making this stick, so remind yourself of the new belief daily. You can also take small actions that prove the new belief true. Over time, these small wins will build up and reinforce a healthier mindset.
Start small. Then tackle these two everyday small business limiting ideas.
Finally, ferret out fear in mind fueling each limiter. Follow practical tips to grow your venture.
Do you have limiting beliefs holding you or your small business back? Let’s discuss this in the comments below.
