Are You An Online Business Owner… or Victim?

01/21/2010 | 3 Comments

Yesterday, I shared with you this thought…

YOUR BUSINESS IS YOUR MASTERPIECE….NOT YOUR PRISON!

Today, let’s expand on it…

Online entrepreneurs can be separated into two different groups by the way they think…

Owners -or- Victims

Here’s what I mean…

Right now in your business you are either an owner of your outcomes, or you’re a victim of your circumstance.

Entrepreneurs who are victims, don’t realize the power they have to alter the results they’re getting. They fail to exercise their creativity to solve the current challenges standing in their way. Instead they give all their power away to circumstance. The net result — their business ends up getting worse and worse.

Entrepreneurs who are owners take ownership of every situation of their business.  They realize they grow with each challenge they overcome. So they come up with creative solutions to their current obstacles. And in the process their skills get better and better…

Entrepreneurs who act like owners stay in the “profitable now.” They give all themselves to what they’re doing in the moment. They stay committed to the outcomes they’ve established and invest all their energy into achieving them.

You see, owners realize this…

Future business success is only created in the present moment. The small task, activity, or project you’re focused on right now will impact your business’ future more than all the excuses, worries, and fears you could possibly stack on top of each other.

Owners embrace the philosophy shared by Ralph Waldo Emerson when he wrote…

“Don’t wast life in doubts and fears. Spend yourself on the work before you, well-assured that the right perfromance of this hour’s duties will be the best preperation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”

So, for today, pick one excuse you’ve been using in your business and come up with all the different actions you could take that would begin to eliminate it once and for all.

If you get stuck, or you come up with a great new approach – share your obstacle or success by commenting below.