As an entrepreneur, you’ll have to get comfortable with your ability to react professionally when you can’t answer questions, and with your ability to learn on the fly. You’ll have to get comfortable with learning from any kind of experience, success, failure – and everything in between. Because of the very nature of business, you will find that you will go through many twists and turns on your Journey of Success.
When you get comfortable, you won’t get upset with every new twist to your business. When you get comfortable, you might even get to the point where you enjoy the challenges presented by each new deal. Let me share a quote with you from football great Walter Payton which I believe with every fiber of my being.
“Having the courage to do things you are not an expert at, trying things that you are totally unsure about, having the courage to stick with it once you start and learning from every step that you take until your particular goal is reached, even if your goal is never reached, is a learning process that will enhance your life. Just remember, it is your decision to succeed or fail; no one else’s.”
Now, you might be the type of person who has trouble getting used to new things. Does that mean that you can’t do this business? No, it means you have to try a different approach. If you can’t get comfortable with new experiences around every bend, then just decide to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
This is all part of the process of moving from your Comfort Zone to your Discovery Zone. Just acknowledge that you are going to feel uncomfortable, and
don’t let that stop you. You can get through plenty of business deals feeling uncomfortable if you decide that for you, that’s the only way it’ll work.
The most important thing is to maintain a positive attitude. If you focus on things always being different from which you are accustomed, you will get caught up
in the things that are making you uncomfortable. If instead, you focus on the fact that you can do business anyway, despite feeling uncomfortable, you might find that the uncomfortable feeling dissolves away.
When you get used to feeling uncomfortable, your uncomfortable feeling can begin to feel comfortable. Hopefully, this makes sense to you. If not, read it again, because understanding what I’m saying here is an important key to success
Something that will help you maintain a positive attitude is to keep your challenge and your commitment in mind. Remember that challenge is the starting point for the entrepreneur’s success journey.
It’s okay to feel uncomfortable with a challenge, as long as you’re committed to succeeding.
When you look at whatever it is that makes you uncomfortable, and then looks at your reason for becoming an entrepreneur and your commitment to it,
your discomfort should seem like a minor issue.
The problem that many people have with getting comfortable is that they’re worrying about either the past or the future, and not paying attention to the present. They may be worrying about mistakes they’ve made in the past or worrying about what will happen in the future if they make a mistake today. The trick is to focus on the present – on your current situation – and to focus on what you can do, rather than what you can’t.