You never know where you would find something relevant for your present moment, sometimes... years after the fact.
While decluttering, I stumbled upon an old issue of a magazine with "Ten myths about running your own business":
1. Success means growing big and making lots of money.
2. Being self-employed means you'll have more time for yourself.
3. It's easy to run your own business.
4. You need lots of money to start a business.
5. Only born entrepreneurs will succeed.
6. You need smart offices to impress clients.
7. You shouldn't take risks.
8. Once you get clients, you can stop marketing.
9. The idea is more important than how you run the business.
10. Being cautious is olf-fashioned.
Over fourteen years later, and yet not that much has changed and the force is still strong with those myths.
While asking myself which of them I believed, at some point, or even recently, I realized that, for me, everything starts with the one about success.
More often than not, success is what we think that we should want because everyone else seems to want it... But it doesn't have to be this way.
Coaching question of the day:
"While talking about success... How does it look like for you?"
While decluttering, I stumbled upon an old issue of a magazine with "Ten myths about running your own business":
1. Success means growing big and making lots of money.
2. Being self-employed means you'll have more time for yourself.
3. It's easy to run your own business.
4. You need lots of money to start a business.
5. Only born entrepreneurs will succeed.
6. You need smart offices to impress clients.
7. You shouldn't take risks.
8. Once you get clients, you can stop marketing.
9. The idea is more important than how you run the business.
10. Being cautious is olf-fashioned.
Business Spotlight, 4/2006
[Having time for myself and my loved ones...
and waking up late in the morning]
Over fourteen years later, and yet not that much has changed and the force is still strong with those myths.
While asking myself which of them I believed, at some point, or even recently, I realized that, for me, everything starts with the one about success.
More often than not, success is what we think that we should want because everyone else seems to want it... But it doesn't have to be this way.
Coaching question of the day:
"While talking about success... How does it look like for you?"
Tags: Coaching question, Self-coaching, Self-awareness, Success, Myths about business
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