Entrepreneurship means taking risks, exploring new routes, abandoning certainty, facing enormous challenges and moving towards the unknown, going against the current, breaking conformism and inertia; dare to build the future in adverse, hostile territory, full of obstacles.
Over the years, at least 4 out of 5 entrepreneurs will face a “breakdown moment”; That is to say, at some point in their development they will be forced to test all their talent, self-confidence, experience, strength and faith when going through some deep crisis or a contingency whose consequences are usually devastating.
Very frequently in the workshops and seminars that we give, many of the entrepreneurs express how difficult it was to face personal doubts, their fears, inexperience, immaturity and – above all – criticism, objections, negative comments and even ridicule from family and friends. and associates.
Indeed, failures, failures, setbacks and crises are usually part of a learning that will never abandon the entrepreneur’s path. Situations such as leaving the ancestral cave and getting lost along the way, falling prey to predators, succumbing to lack of water and/or food, are comparisons that usually describe the emotions they usually go through.
It seems that a tsunami is coming upon you, debts, lack of resources, pressures from investors, family expenses, stress, pressures, invoices from suppliers, declines in sales, illnesses and those non-stop days that take you away from what you want. It would be a fair reward for your effort and dedication.
Dreams collapse, become compressed, while frustrations and resentment thicken and weigh more heavily. BentXs, brokenXs, exhuastXs, overwhelmedXs there is no self-help book that has an escape route when everything overwhelms you, when strength and faith are scarce and it seems that there is no longer any handhold, no way to get up.
When a case of successful entrepreneurship is recounted, frequently that intermediate part between the terrible beginning of trial and error, poverty, abandonment, rejection that preceded the triumphant conclusion of some project is evaded, minimized, moved forward quickly as in a movie. to make it less obvious, evident, forceful, crude.
However, entrepreneurs must always have certified reserves of faith, strength, creativity and self-evaluation to face them.
Imagine for a moment what it was like to build a pyramid; explore the world in a galley across unknown seas; what it is like to currently develop artificial intelligence technologies, quantum microprocessors, reflects on everything that had to be put in place to achieve it.
Within your entrepreneurial spirit, resilience must be a critical and essential part of your arsenal.
Entrepreneurs are in every place or scheme you can imagine. From a workshop, a small business, a market stall, inventors, writers, speakers, professionals, merchants, application drivers, inventors, traders, gamers, creatives, designers, trainers, advisors, teachers, artists, chefs, doctors, scientists , explorers, influencers, of course.
For everyone, it is convenient to remember that such breaking moments, triggering events or crises are not only part of the beginning, but also occur along the way and until what seems to be the peak and plenitude of a project.
Sometimes a very good product, service or merchandise whose sales were exorbitant tends to stagnate or the trends of your followers can change, starting a decline without return.
Some international event, droughts, conflicts, fires, natural disasters could turn your company upside down. Needless to say, an increase in taxes, uncollected invoices, updating license plates, licenses, paying payroll, illness, public services or the conjunction of all this at the point of lowest sales that you have experienced.
Entrepreneurs must even face personal problems, complex relationships due to always being full of work, days outside of all normality, without rest, endless meetings, closed doors, corrupt practices, it takes a lot of maturity, temperance, stoicism to face them and rebuild one, again and again.
That is the life you chose, that is the route that no one dared and those are the costs. In triumph you will see the encouraging faces, the praise, the classic “I was sure you would do it”; In crises you will surely find solX and the internal voice of punishment and recrimination.
Then comes the time to resist, endure, grow, prepare, adjust, change course. There is no choice but to use all the capacity for resistance, foresight and vision. Another fact: 4 out of every 10 entrepreneurs will succumb before 3 years, but 2 thirds of them will manage to get ahead. There is always hope, there must always be faith, nothing can take them away from you.
The difference between those who survived was always that internal energy, that determination, perseverance: in a word, resilience, that is the key.
Austerity, new routes, new ideas, innovation, education, preparation, research, changes, moderation, technological improvements, better habits, public relations, new contacts, more clients, more efficient processes, savings, seem obvious, common sense.
Without reductionism, entrepreneurial resilience is giving and demanding the maximum every day, hoping for the best, but being prepared for the worst, facing it with your face held high and never losing faith.
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