Why I Love Business
In this article, you will find out why I like business, and what the difference is between people who like business and those who just do it for whatever reason.
A quote from one of my community members, in the Daily Business Hustle Open Group (a free group where almost anyone can join), states: “I don’t know if this is what I’m most passionate about. The other guys who are good seem so passionate about it”. Here’s the problem, this is a person who doesn’t like business. He doesn’t like business because it takes effort – because he’s a whiny bitch who doesn’t want to work. If you want to do the work, you don’t care if you’re passionate about it. You just decide what you’re going to do and you become passionate about it. You train your mind so you’ll like what you’re doing.
As you’re progressing, you’re getting a result and growing towards your goal. That’s what you’re supposed to like – not the specific task you’re doing. I don’t want to be sitting on the internet typing an email, while I could be outside having fun instead. I want to be at the beach as well, but I’m inside working on my laptop all day.
It’s not like it’s passion where it feels so good – all these good emotions and all that. It’s not about that, that’s not why you run a business. I like doing business because it gives me influence. Running a business is the best way for me to influence the world. I don’t like politics because it’s just taking money away from people who produce value. Business is producing value; business increases the value of things. Business creates opportunities for yourself and for other people. It can lift people out of poverty and it has qualities I like. It allows me to have the influence and freedom that I want to have. That’s why I like it.
Now someone who’s not doing one thing, or not doing another because it’s just not their passion. I think other people have passion. Other people have passion because they implement. They have passion because when they didn’t feel like doing it, they do it anyway. As a result they became passionate about it. That’s what passion is for me. It’s doing what is the right thing. Doing what it takes and going through the barriers (success barriers and old plateaus) and doing it anyway. That’s what it is. You can’t just have it on the inside; you aren’t going to find it there. You have to develop it through hard work. People who don’t get that will never succeed at business. They’re just spoiled; society has rewarded them for being lazy. Society has rewarded them for not having high goals. It has rewarded them for having a job, where they just coast along and don’t have to do real work.
If you want to become passionate about something, pick one thing with potential, for example sales or making YouTube videos. Just do it; Implement it for 2 years no matter what. Learn from your mistakes and start getting sales as soon as possible. You’re going to become passionate because you’re implementing, investing emotionally, that’s how you become passionate about it.
The guys I know who are super good, who own a super successful business. They don’t even care emotionally if they don’t get results for a whole week. A whole week of no results and no sales. Losing clients for a whole week, for a whole month. They don’t get emotionally attached to that. They feel the loss, then they think about what they could change about their business. They deal with it and don’t make a big deal out of it. They’re still on the path to gain the result. They’re still doing the thing they’re supposed to do. They keep repeating this process over and over and over. Learning from their mistakes, then improving. They do this over and over and over again.
They use real data, not two or three mistakes. If they make the same mistake several times, they recognise that this is a pattern. They then look at how to solve it: they’re looking for solutions. People who fail at business, they talk about it like there are all these problems. All the problems are piling up. Whereas someone who’s successful at it, when something goes wrong, then it happens again: they look at how to solve it. They’ll ask for different people’s advice on how to solve it. Then say three people tell him to try something; he’ll implement it for a week. If he solves it, good. If not, try something else.
It’s fun to push through problems, solve problems. Achieve new levels of success in your business and in your life as well, at the same time. Balance everything out; have a lot of fun doing this. For me, it’s about the process itself and getting results.
If you’re starting a business, a lot of people want to partner up with someone. They want to partner up with someone as a way to reduce their accountability. Instead of reducing your accountability, you should be increasing your accountability. Take 100% accountability. In fact if you’re starting a business, I recommend you start off alone. I don’t recommend you start with someone; because you’ll be giving each other excuses not to do something.
You want to be the only person responsible in the beginning. You want to surround yourself with other people who are implementing, but you don’t want to rely on them. Surround yourself with people who implement and share experiences. Share ideas going towards solutions. Help each other to work out solutions. Don’t complain, if you complain to other people around you, they won’t want to be around you if they are winners. Losers, they complain to each other. It’s just their way of communication; it’s basically a way to confirm that it’s okay to fail.
It’s not okay to fail over and over. When you fail over and over, you learn a lesson. Then you succeed. It’s not okay to keep yourself in a cycle of loss. You need to get out of that cycle and get a result as soon as possible.
In fact, I really don’t understand why people can’t like business, it’s crazy. Why would you go into business if you just want some money. You can’t be in business just for the money. You can’t be in it just to float around, just to have a good time and relax. You can’t be in business like that. It has to be a lot of focused effort over and over. It’s not a lot of relaxing, it’s not a lot of fun all the time.
There are moments of joy; there are moments where you’ll achieve something. Reach a new level where it feels amazing. There are moments where it’s the opposite. Dealing with the opposite is hard. It’s harder dealing with the opposite, with the bad stuff than it is to deal with the good stuff, that’s easy. It’s easy when it goes well; it’s hard when it doesn’t go well. The person who deals the best with bad results, with the bad feedback, that’s the person who persists the longest.
In conclusion, there are several things you should take away from this article. Don’t expect good emotions from your business, just keep implementing. Don’t wait for something you’re more passionate about. There’s no thing just around the corner that you’re going to be especially passionate about. Do the one thing you’re doing now, or commit to another thing. Commit to it for half a year, for twenty years, it’s a skill you’re learning. Commit to it and repeat over and over. You will become passionate; you will get good at it. You’ll achieve mastery doing that. That is good enough; you don’t need the next thing every single time. Commit to one thing. If you have any questions, comment down below.
