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Chapter 6

Fight the Person in the Mirror.

Entrepreneurship is not a very easy journey and one may experience various ups and downs before achieving their full potential. As a new entrepreneur, you need to have a lot of courage to face these woes in order to build a great enterprise in the future.

You need to keep pushing yourself to achieve more, and one way you can do this is by making sure you build something that you believe in since this is the first step to creating a successful brand.

At times you might be in your dark room alone wondering why your business is failing, and the only answer to this is letting your business purpose and what you want to achieve be your drive. Doing this will help you fight your worries and keep putting more effort.

In your entrepreneurship journey, you will also face some challenges such as your business idea being copied. Dont start investing in your business until you are prepared to survive imitations by other players in the industry. If your idea becomes really progressive and performs very well there will be a lot of copycats, from the big corporate players to little startups with the aim of having some of your market share.

In such scenarios, your only motive should be continuous innovation, and if you get a good deal from the big players, you might as well consider taking it.

Its also important to make sure that you reserve a certain amount of money, which will help cater for various energy, and bad mistakes that you may experience. This action seems to be very hard for new entrepreneurs, but these reserves are what will help cater for bad luck and losses that you may come across.

Good capital is always a great arsenal in helping push forward your business idea into greater heights. Also make sure you learn the art of achieving your goals at a small budget. Dont spend too much on things that you might not require such as fancy offices and other products that might blow your budget away. Remember your aim is to stay alive until you achieve the perfect formula to success.

Always remember to take care of your family and spiritual health as you still work on your business. Its very important to balance your business and family and set some time aside for each of them. Founding a new business may take years and during this period, always remember to have some time for your family and spiri