It's a known fact that at some point in every successful entrepreneur's life, they've had to take some form of bold action.
By bold, I mean daring, fearless, courageous, persistent, determined and unwilling to settle for anything less than what they want.
It took boldness for Bill Gates to negotiate license rights to the MS-DOS operating system he created for IBM.
He then repackaged the system and sold it as Windows to every major PC manufacturer.
This one move made him the richest man in the world for 13 years.
It took boldness for Steve Jobs to return to the Silicon Valley after being publicly sacked from Apple -- the multi-billion dollar company he started.
Ironically, a few years later he returned to spearhead Apple's revival, when Apple bought his new company, NeXt.
It took boldness for Oprah Winfrey to overcome racism and sexism to acquire ownership and all production rights for The Oprah Winfrey Show.
In so doing she became the first woman in history to own and produce her own talk show.
And it took boldness for Walt Disney to risk everything on making the first full-length animated feature film -- even though everyone in Hollywood told him that such a project would be a failure and ruin him.
The film -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- was an instant success, grossing today's equivalent of $98 million and won Disney eight Oscars.
If we're willing to be bold and act with courage, there's no limit to what we can achieve as entrepreneurs.
But the truth is...
Most entrepreneurs kill off great business ideas before they've even had a chance to see the light of day.
Of the hundred of ideas tossed around our heads every day, the majority are quickly suffocated by our cautious inner voices; whilst those that do make it on to paper rarely make it any further.
And when we're not the death of our own good ideas, we're often quick to let others destroy them for us.
I know many business owners who allow their ideas to be crushed by family, friends and anyone else who wants to throw in their money's worth.
Similarly, many people sabotage their own plans before they come to fruition.
They imagine all the different ways in which their plans will fail, and then decide it's not worth trying.
Sure, most attempted business ideas might fail.
But failure is a certainty if we don't try.
Stop spending your time and energy worrying about what you don't know.
Stop caring about what other people think.
Stop thinking about the ways your plans will fail.
Basil King probably said it best: "Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.
" The reason you're in business for yourself is because you have a dream.
That dream may be to provide for your family, buy a bigger house, buy a faster car, achieve financial freedom, make your family proud, be respected by friends, be the envy of your enemies, become famous, etc.
The thing is...
Big dreams require bold actions.
Dare to dream, dare to be bold.
But before you go forth and boldly make it happen, make sure to heed the warnings in strategy five of my FREE Business Survival Kit
By bold, I mean daring, fearless, courageous, persistent, determined and unwilling to settle for anything less than what they want.
It took boldness for Bill Gates to negotiate license rights to the MS-DOS operating system he created for IBM.
He then repackaged the system and sold it as Windows to every major PC manufacturer.
This one move made him the richest man in the world for 13 years.
It took boldness for Steve Jobs to return to the Silicon Valley after being publicly sacked from Apple -- the multi-billion dollar company he started.
Ironically, a few years later he returned to spearhead Apple's revival, when Apple bought his new company, NeXt.
It took boldness for Oprah Winfrey to overcome racism and sexism to acquire ownership and all production rights for The Oprah Winfrey Show.
In so doing she became the first woman in history to own and produce her own talk show.
And it took boldness for Walt Disney to risk everything on making the first full-length animated feature film -- even though everyone in Hollywood told him that such a project would be a failure and ruin him.
The film -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -- was an instant success, grossing today's equivalent of $98 million and won Disney eight Oscars.
If we're willing to be bold and act with courage, there's no limit to what we can achieve as entrepreneurs.
But the truth is...
Most entrepreneurs kill off great business ideas before they've even had a chance to see the light of day.
Of the hundred of ideas tossed around our heads every day, the majority are quickly suffocated by our cautious inner voices; whilst those that do make it on to paper rarely make it any further.
And when we're not the death of our own good ideas, we're often quick to let others destroy them for us.
I know many business owners who allow their ideas to be crushed by family, friends and anyone else who wants to throw in their money's worth.
Similarly, many people sabotage their own plans before they come to fruition.
They imagine all the different ways in which their plans will fail, and then decide it's not worth trying.
Sure, most attempted business ideas might fail.
But failure is a certainty if we don't try.
Stop spending your time and energy worrying about what you don't know.
Stop caring about what other people think.
Stop thinking about the ways your plans will fail.
Basil King probably said it best: "Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.
" The reason you're in business for yourself is because you have a dream.
That dream may be to provide for your family, buy a bigger house, buy a faster car, achieve financial freedom, make your family proud, be respected by friends, be the envy of your enemies, become famous, etc.
The thing is...
Big dreams require bold actions.
Dare to dream, dare to be bold.
But before you go forth and boldly make it happen, make sure to heed the warnings in strategy five of my FREE Business Survival Kit
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