The Surprising Pitfall New Businesses Face (And How To Avoid It)

In this article, you will find out how to avoid the biggest issue businesses face in the first ten days they start.

When you start with a new business, it’s the same as starting a new habit. When you’re starting something anew, there’s huge resistance to doing it, this huge resistance. I swear after dealing with over 100 hundred clients, I can tell you every possible obstacle will come up, when starting a new business.

The whole world will seem to conspire against you, every relative will come to you with a problem, and your dog will get sick, and your old boss will call you back, offering you a raise (maybe they’ll offer to double your salary, and he’ll beg you to come back). Your girlfriend will break up with you, and your family will abandon you.

Everything will happen in the first ten days you’re starting up your business, because it’s hard. This will happen, because you’re making an excuse, you’re the cause of this. Even if it seems, like there is an outside force that sweeps in to come and scoop you out of your responsibility. To make the sales calls, to make the videos, you’re coming up with the excuses.

My reference experience with my clients has shown me this. I hear the same exact excuses from my clients over and over, in the first thirty days. I hear them over and over, the same exact excuses. I tell them I’ve heard it all before, and these things are all exactly the same. These things are not real, you’re causing them. Take 100% responsibility when starting your business. You take small steps, and begin with the minimum you need to get started.

If you have to start with phone calls, just do thirty of them every day, and build up. You can’t start with one hundred calls a day like the pros. You need to start from the beginning, start with the basic steps, and build upto it.

Another thing you have to do is plan it – how you’re going to do it, who you’re going to call, how you’re going to call them, where you’ll get the phone number from. Every step has to be planned out, so that when it’s time, when it’s in your schedule.

When it’s 2pm for example, you’ll be on time, you’ll be on location where you have to be sitting, the list is right in front of you, and the phone is right in your hand, then you can get started. Make sure there are no distractions, especially Facebook, there’s no Facebook. Your dog is locked up in another room, it can’t distract you with any noise.  There’s a baby sitter for your children, there’s no one else at home, and you can just get started.

You can work for at least an hour and a half without any kind of breaks, and keep working at it without any distractions. You have to keep doing this for the first ten days, and after the first ten days, congratulations it’s going to suck a little less, but it’s still going to suck.

For the first 30 days, it’s all about learning the skill of implementation. In fact, some people don’t get any results for the first thirty days. Of course, it’s completely possible to get sales, and get your business fully running in the first thirty days.

For some people, it just takes while longer, and that’s perfectly fine. You have to surrender to the process, if you can surrender to it, you will succeed, and at a point, even if you break your leg, lose your voice, lose your sight, lose your hearing, and fall off a truck, and  almost break your neck, and you can barely move. You’ll say: “I’ll still do what I’m supposed to do”. If you can say that to yourself, then you will succeed.

Trust me, if you put in the effort it will be worth it. Every extremely successful business, has taken this level of commitment, to a level even higher than this. It’s not too hard, it’s completely possible, I’ve sixteen and seventeen year olds do it. You can never really predict if that person is going to do it or not.

You have to be the type of person who does it, and not make up a ‘perfectly valid’ excuse, that at the end of the day does not get results, doesn’t have a company. You don’t want to be in the 90% who fail at their business, don’t part of it, be part of the winners, and be part of the people who succeed.

Don’t take the road of least resistance, take the road, that’s travelled by the few, and those who succeed. This turned into a motivational article, I’ll try not to do this that frequently. If you have any questions, comment down below.