The procrastination of the entrepreneur makes perpetual salaried.
You can never rise above your monthly expectation, you can never be better than
your employers rating, poor, excellent, bad, good or better. The inclination to
achieve more is destroyed by the determination of your procrastination, success
comes by inspiration but inspiration is only a step in the right direction to success.
Start from where you are, right now and act on your
inspiration check out some of this unpopular inspirations.
According to Isaiah Hankel, Entrepreneur Speaker and Business Consultant, Entrepreneurs often feel like impostors at their
businesses and in their lives because they’re constantly trying to do things
they’ve never done before. Every day they’re learning new skills and this can
prompt them to feeling like they're not really qualified to be running their
businesses.
But many people experience impostor syndrome at some point.
They persistently see themselves as inadequate or failures despite information
indicating that their skills are sufficient or they're successful.
Confident entrepreneurs accept their inadequacies. They are
simply faking it before they make it and that’s OK. It’s called learning.
Once business leaders learn to accept this process, their imposter
syndrome goes away. Here are 10 other tricks confident entrepreneurs can use to
avoid imposter syndrome:
1. Own the victory
Confident entrepreneurs own their accomplishments. The cause
of imposter syndrome is an inability to internalize success. Instead, people
think they got lucky, slipped in or benefit from an unusual amount of help. It takes integrity to own a victory. Sure, you may have been
lucky or have had help as a new business owner, but you probably did your part,
too. Even if you were just in the right place at the right time, you were still
there. Without you, the victory wouldn’t exist.
2. Don’t rely so much on external validation
External validation is a crutch. No one should have more
power to make you feel better about yourself than you. Sure, it’s fine to feel good when other people compliment
you and you should always accept external praise, but don't overly rely on it.
3. Keep the pressure on
You can’t fight self-doubt with more self-doubt. Too many
entrepreneurs make the mistake of combating impostor syndrome by purposefully
lowering the bar for themselves. These types say things like “Oh, I’m not that good” or “I’ll
probably mess up” before daring to take a specific action. Some will even go as
far as sabotaging their own performance to fulfill the lower expectations.
The problem is that trying to take pressure off yourself by
pretending to be more of a failure will make you more of a failure. It’s a
pitiful cycle. You set the bar lower and lower each time until what you do
doesn’t matter at all.
4. Act before being ready
Many entrepreneurs feel like impostors because they wait and
wait to take action. They want to launch a new product or change the direction
of their business but never have the guts. They just think about acting. Thinking without acting makes entrepreneurs feel like
impostors in their own lives. They know what they want and who they want to be
but never move toward it, leaving them feeling like a phony.
5. Encounter failure firsthand
Entrepreneurs who critique other businesses but never dare
to take great leaps in their own work are the real impostors. Reading about
other entrepreneurs’ failures and successes only goes so far. Sooner or later you have to plunge in and start succeeding
or failing first, experiencing things firsthand. You can’t be a fake and fail
at the same time. If you’re failing, you’re doing it. You’re real.
6. Expose your true self
The only way to destroy imposter syndrome forever is to be
exactly who you are to everyone all the time. Don’t prop up a fake image of
yourself or your business to others. If your business is small, let it be
small. Be transparent with customers and use the fact that you
company is minute to interact more closely with them. Align your thoughts,
words and actions as much as possible. It can be hard to do but there’s real
freedom associated with this.
7. Laugh at yourself
Find the humor in your business. People will like you and
your business more. And, you’ll be taken more seriously. In fact, studies show
that self-deprecating humor by high-status people increases their
attractiveness.
8. Ask for help
Confident entrepreneurs are not afraid to say, “I don’t
know” and then follow it up with “Can you help me find out?” As an
entrepreneur, you can’t do everything yourself. Entrepreneurs who try to move
mountains all on their own without ever asking for assistance will end up
feeling like the biggest imposters of all. You only have two eyes and two ears. You need to network and
spend invest time in learning to tap into other people's wisdom so you can see
and hear more. Then when you get stuck, you can benefit from their insights.
9. Plan all the way to the end
Winging it will make you feel like a phony. Failing to fully
plan for your business is another technique that entrepreneurs make the mistake
of doing to try to relieve pressure in their stressful situation. They think that winging it or making things up as they go
will prevent them from being held accountable if they fail. This is not true. The ending is everything. It’s not enough to have a great
start. You must finish what you start. Sure, no plan survives contact with
reality unscathed. Things happen. Plans change. But that doesn’t mean you
shouldn’t try to foresee and prepare for the possible obstacles that may arise.
10. Knock down pedestals
It’s impossible to feel like an impostor once you accept
that everyone else is an impostor, too. The only thing that separates you from
the successful entrepreneurs of the world is time and effort. Anything that
they can do, you can do. Too many people see great entrepreneurs or greatness in
general as some kind of special thing that has to be assigned them. Nothing
could be further from the truth. Every entrepreneur feels like an imposter at
one time or another. All entrepreneurs are trying to be better versions of
themselves.
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