The only critics you really need to listen to you are your customers. If they have no complaints, ignore everyone who does.
Entrepreneurship is an amazing opportunity to create a business which allows you to be in control of your life. You can create financial security and not deal with the stress of living paycheck-to-paycheck. You can experience true time freedom in which you wake up each day and spend your time on the things that light your soul on fire. You can make an impact in the lives of those your business helps — you can help solve real problems.
Along the way, there are other factors thrown into the mix that complicate entrepreneurship. It can be clearly identified issues such as a lack of cash flow, having the wrong team, dealing with the wrong customers — the list can go on. But some silent, less obvious struggles are what hurts the most businesses and entrepreneurs — without them even realizing it.
If you spend any amount of time on social media, you’re likely to see a post from an entrepreneur making fun or taking shots at people who make money teaching other people how to make money. You’ll see entrepreneurs complaining about how other entrepreneurs market their business, how they build their email list, what they create content around and 100 other complaints. You’ll see entrepreneurs taking shots at how various other entrepreneurs generate income and their business model.
Here’s the thing: when you see these types of threads — and all the other people jumping in and agreeing — it affects you in ways you don’t realize. You start to think that you need to change what you do or change the way you operate your business. You overthink and become timid. You stop doing all the things it takes to help your business…
