Best Business Advice for Entrepreneurs: Do More Of What You Love
As a business owner, I’ll be you’re no stranger to doing hard things. It’s hard to show up, day in and day out, to market, sell, and deliver your offers to other people. It’s hard to be visible and vulnerable as we ask people to hand over their hard-earned money for something we’re selling.
And while I can’t help you avoid doing that hard work, I do have some advice that will make showing up to do that hard work a whole lot easier (and even enjoyable!)
In this blog post, I’ll be sharing how to leaning into your natural excitement and internal momentum can make doing the things that need doing a whole lot easier - and help your business reach your big goals too!
Mindset & strategy aren’t always the answer
In this online business world, a lot of weight gets put on mastering your mindset and scoring the right strategy. And while both of those pieces are important to building a business…
I’m going to argue that they aren’t actually as big a piece of your success as they might seem to be.
Here’s what I see usually happening as people try to build and grow their businesses:
You have an idea
And you love your idea, you feel excited and want to get started on it like yesterday!
But then you feel some sort of wobble…
Maybe your audience won’t like it?
Maybe you don’t have enough people in your audience anyways?
What if it doesn’t work and you’ll have wasted your time?
What if you aren’t qualified to do it in the first place?
Maybe someone somewhere will judge you for doing it…
You get the idea. You get stuck in analysis paralysis and all that great momentum you once had grinds to a halt.
Now, some of these concerns are very real and valid! I struggle with Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria big time, so I get it.
But then…
You pause your idea and put off working on it
So you can examine your strategies, work on your mindset and, often, outsource your decision-making to other “experts”. And this is often because those things seem safer, smarter, and easier in a weird way than actually just doing the thing.
Because it is unknown.
And how it turns out is unknowable.
And that’s scary!
And as a result of all of this thinking you start to talk yourself out of your idea and fall out of love with it.
You start to see the cracks, the potential pitfalls, the work you need to do on yourself…
But ultimately, what’s actually happened is… nothing.
You haven’t created anything new.
You don’t know if people like it.
You don’t know if it works.
And you may be feeling even more stuck because now you’ve added more hurdles in your way of actually doing something, anything, to move forward.
And that’s the thing: You can’t get anywhere without actually trying.
Which is why I’m here to advocate to go with your first gut reaction. That spark of excitement. The motivation and momentum that comes with something new and shiny.
Taking action is the only way to make things happen in your business.
But I know that doesn’t come as easily for some of us. And that’s totally understandable. We all have lives lived, experiences, traumas and neural pathways that have taught us to mask, to shrink, to hide and to play it safe. Because it kept us safe.
So let me ask you this:
What do you want to DO?
What feels controllable?
What feels doable?
What feels exciting?
What feels motivating?
And how can you lean into that more?
Because it’s up to YOU to make this business work.
But it’s also up to you how you want this business to FEEL. And I’ll bet, if you can spend more time doing things you’re excited about, experimenting with ideas you came up with and generally enjoying the time you’re putting into this work… It will FEEL a lot better!
👉 And THAT will almost certainly show.
Which will attract people to you, get them excited about what you’re doing and ultimately pay to get a piece of what you’ve created that feels so good.
