As Unemployment rate in the country increase, Most Nigerian Youth has embrace the use of different skills to help themselves financially. Some are making a huge amount with their skills while others find it hard to make it big, not because they are not good in what they do, but because they are afraid of taking their skills to the next level.
There’s something really powerful about the idea of fear within the entrepreneurial experience, it cripples you and make you think you are not good enough, fear always focus on the negative. That negativity has been preventing you from starting that business of yours. It is time to break out!
Here are the best way to conquer the fear of business startups:
1. Start on a Small Scale:
The challenge for a lot of us is that when we go about our lives, we interact with so many “big” things and we forget or don’t even know how they originally started. Every big business out there starts as a small business like yours. Bring Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola into a room, ask them how they started, they will tell you how their small business turned out to be what it is today.
To overcome the fear ahead, it is usually more advisable to start your company on a little scale and gradually figure out ways to expand the exact same without wasting more cash on wrong resources.
2. Choose a Profitable Small Business:
Every businessman/businesswoman looks forward to the profit before they kick start their business. No one sell for the fun of it or because there friend is selling this too. Make sure you choose something profitable else you become afraid after few weeks.
Fear begins in your thoughts and you have to employ your mind to conquer fear particularly if you desire to increase sales for your personal business. Selling doesn't have to become a fearful experience!
3. Identify Your Greatest Fear and Deal with It
Many successful business owners have a particular fear before they start the business. So it is normal for you to fear from the beginning. Yes, you know what you are afraid of now, it is time to take bold steps that will help you kill the fear. Do not let your fear rob you of a major breakthrough in your life, kill the fear before it kills you.
4. Learn from others
You need to learn from others, not just those who are successful but also from those who failed. Learn from those who failed, it is very important, you need to know what lead to there failure. A word of caution here, learn what you need to learn from them so you can avoid what ruin them but do not let them weigh you down with there "it is not possible" gospel. You are different from them, and besides, they didn't learn from those who failed.
5. Have Passion for what you do:
If you are not happy about your job or any business you are doing, it becomes extremely difficult to make the best out of such business. I mean, if you're excited about the goods or services you offered to your clients, you adore the people you're meeting within your business surrounding and passionately talked about the business to people day-in day-out, the business will ultimately get the desired brand image. However, if you are too shy to identify with your business or fearful about the reception you are going to get from people you introduced your business to, then, you are not ready to stand alone in the world of business start-ups.
6. Your Business MUST cover your expenses:
Your business MUST be able to pay your bills and still leave extra for your savings account otherwise; you will be deeper in debt and this is precisely why the majority of people don't begin a new enterprise. For example, some people might fear starting a small business as it may not pay their current bills. Even if you possess all of the positive thinking on earth, crazy and unnecessary bills accumulation will never going to get you out of the business fear dilemma.
7. Be Positive
In everything you do, be positive about it. When you are to meet a customer, focus on the positive part, when you want to go into the selling of a new product which no one has not heard about, believe you will sell. Go with your believe and watch things work out like magic.
Enjoy the rest of the day.
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