How to Stay Motivated: 5 Secrets to Harness Superhuman Persistence When Overcoming a New Challenge
When you start a new business, the road can be a long one. But it isn’t infinite. So as long as you can keep walking the road, you’ll get there eventually.
The trick is persistence. But how do you get the persistence you need to overcome all the challenges along the way? The secrets below can help.
The Art of Delegating: Get More Done Without Burning Out
When we create our own company, we often start out having to do everything ourselves. Everything from filing our paperwork to creating our promotional copy to working sales — it’s all us.
There’s a certain romance to those early days. But as your company grows (which, one hopes, it will), all of those activities quickly become way too much for one person.
But the skills that built the company in the early days don’t include the big skill you need to learn now: delegating.
Creativity Beats Competition: How to Be a Big Fish in a Less Crowded Market
Many people start companies thinking they need to directly challenge competitors, and others who don’t have the stomach to put others out of business avoid chasing their dreams. This leads to failure in the first instance and failure to launch in the second.
To succeed in the market, you need to use creativity — not to out-compete others, but to avoid competition in the first place.