Having Patience With Your Business
-Motto
There are so many bumps we all face as we set out to achieve our business goals in life. One of the biggest is finding the will within to become paitent. I have recently had to practice this principle immensely. I have gone through a move and I have had little time to write solid content and build traffic. My site died a little this last week. I gave it no water and no sun.
I hope you realize that with any business practice in life that it is a living organism. The same principles that you teach apply to your kids apply to how you run your business. It is like a growing child.
He will spew filth at you from all over the place. He will keep you up at night. He will cause you to wonder what you are doing wrong and how to delicately act in order to treat him just write so he grows up the way you want. Then you realize that what you want may not always be right.
Realize as a business owner, just like a parent you are going to make some mistakes. Just learn from those experiences and obviously your response is going to be different based on what type of a child (business) you have, but you can never stop loving him and never stop being patient.
I hope you are not getting too weepy-eyed, but this type of care and respect is necessary. I think many businesses fail because they don’t care long enough.
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
-Thomas Paine
How many parents ever say I am going to just give up on my child. Most intelligent parents or any family therapist would say that is silly. Truly the only way a business fails is if you quit. You let guilt, anger, impatience, or some other negative emotion get the best of you. I think if we all treated our businesses will a little more respect and honored them the way we did when we first ”gave birth to the idea” then we wouldn’t have such a high business failure rate in this country.
Instead you hear thoughts like (replace Timmy with your business), “I tried all I could, but it was Timmy’s fault.”
“Timmy wouldn’t listen to me and respond the way I wanted him to so I stopped doing it. It is ok because I have heard of another kid named Johnny out there that is going to give me a greater return and require less work.”
“The stress with Timmy was too much. I have my own Johnny already that I can stick to. Timmy just wanted to much from me and I couldn’t handle it anymore.”
“Well the other contributors to Timmy had different thoughts on how to raise Timmy so I sold my rights to Timmy. Timmy is not going to go that far in life.”
Now I know this is all rediculous, but I think it proves my point that we give up on our dreams too easily. Obviously there are circumstances we face like putting a family as a priority, but still you should be able to find joy in your business. Even in the difficulties. THAT IS WHAT MAKES THE BUSINESS SO REWARDING. The same can be said for parenthood that makes it wonderful and worth while. People love their business because they helped it through the tough times and were patient with their business as it struggled making baby steps.
Think where you could improve as an owner just as you would hopefully want to in any personal relationship, such as a child. If you can put up with the tantrums, puke, and dirty diapers then it can truly mean something some day.
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Just surfed in and found you site and this post. Very good information you have here. From my experience, many people start a business under funded and just about the time they start to see their business take off, they fold up due to a lack of funds. Come to think about it, that mirrors the internet world also!
Thanks for a great site,
Don
Hi Cade,
Thanks for visiting and leaving a comment on my blog.
Great article you have here. I think that business is a long term venture that needs nurturing with time, money and fresh ideas. Many people go into business without good planning so they give up when the going gets tough.
May you have a fruitful week ahead. =)
Thanks for visiting my blog and commenting. This is an interesting post.
I especially like your growth metaphor - “My blog died a little this last week. I gave it no water and no sun.”
I look forward to visiting again.
All the best
Yvonne
Nice wording. Our businesses really are like our children and sometimes you just don´t realize that you´ve made a wrong move until you notice the results! Just like your “no sun, no water” metaphor.
Great post! I just started my own buisness and this post gave me a lot of thoughts.
Yes i agree with you Don..
“Many people start a business under funded and just about the time they start to see their business take off, they fold up due to a lack of funds.”
There’s is a strong reason in supporting Don, i have came across many many cases of such type in my circle i.e, getting out of business due to lack of money.. anyway thanks for the fabulous information..
Patience is so important. If we all had more of it then I think there would be a lot less problems in our world as a whole.