3 Sacrifices Successful Entrepreneurs Make
Being a successful entrepreneur is a journey for a person who rises every time he fails.
But only rising from failure is not enough, you need to make some sacrifices for years to become an overnight successful entrepreneur.
These sacrifices may look good for one or two days but to follow them seamlessly is a challenge- only a few can accept and carry on.
1. Work 5-9 instead of 9–5
Working 9–5 seems very difficult because you are killing your dreams to work for a person who is building their dream using your hard work.
You still can start to build your dream from scratch, you only need your dream, to begin with.
How?
To start building your dream, you need to have a strategy, plan, and skills. If we talk about skills required for entrepreneurs. You need to cover many skills as entrepreneurs since you will have to wear many hats during the journey to success.
But again question remains the same, how to make time for your dream while you are working for someone else?
You need to invest your time. You need to trade 9–5 with 5–9. Meaning, work 9–5 for the employer and use the remaining time to build the skills required to build your dream.
Don’t leave your job to build your dream before you are ready, it is the worst step you can ever make: Read when to leave a job for your startup.
After you have learned the skills, now is the time to practice them, work on your own project, and test it for the lacking things, and learn again to improve those skills. This is how this cycle goes.
If you are expecting to sit around and rule once you have started to set up your business, you better go back to the job you were doing before.
The business takes a lot more than sitting and ruling around. It requires you to give up your time to learn more, fail more, understand more what is lacking, and learn again. This is not your 9–5 job on which you can take leave and take rest or delay work for some time, NO!!!
It is your dream you need to squeeze yourself and become the best version of yourself. You need to stay awake and aware. You need to do what it takes, it takes more than your 9–5 job.
Are you ready to give it to build your dream?
2. Cut off negativity
It’s very important to stay positive when you are starting to build your dream because now you are starting to separate from the crowd.
The crowd will try to stop you saying, “It’s too difficult, you won’t be able to do it. You won’t make it. You don’t have what it takes. You must do a job, it’s secure. You can be okay in the current condition.” This kind of similar comment you will receive which actually discourages many people and they leave their dream hanging in imagination.
If the people surrounding you are negative, your mindset tend to build in a similar way that is Negative!!!
So the only solution is you must cut off the negative people, stay far away from them, and do not let the negativity infect your mind.
These negative people can be your dearest friends or your closest family member. Still, you need to maintain distance from these people, you should not hear their negative mindset.
You don’t have to cut off the relationship, you just need to stay away from these people.
This way you keep your mind and hence your actions and decision safe from negativity.
3. Forget about vacations and work
To be able to make it to the success you need to make many sacrifices and forgetting about the vacations is one of them.
If you are going somewhere for a business — traveling is mandatory, but if you want to go somewhere just for fun, waste your time, and money for no reason just to visit places is the thing you don’t want right now.
Thinking of vacation, planning, and going there will distract your mind even when you come back.
You can’t afford what distraction is bringing to you: loss of time, loss of money, and most importantly loss of your work you were going to do at that time.
So forget about the vacations till you feel that you have achieved something to count on, not in imagination-in reality. Till you make money even when you are on vacation you need to work and forget about vacations.
If you are making all of this sacrifices, learning from mistakes, and continue working for years — for sure you will become an overnight success one day!!!
