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  (And Does It Motivate You To Do Your Very Best?)

Have you noticed how whenever things start to tank just a little emotionally, it becomes critically important how and what you do to define inspiration?

Because whatever it is (emotionally) that’s temporarily dragging you down, one thing is for sure,

if you don’t have some sort of way to effectively manage these times, when they come.

As they surely will. You’ll constantly let the all too powerful doubt gremlins rule the day.

Why You Need To Define Inspiration Or Else!

My friend, in both business and your personal life, it’s not if you’re going to get hit really hard. It’s when.

And if you haven’t figured it out yet, once you enter the highly competitive arena of business, it’s winner take all.

Not that your competitors are (necessarily) out to chop your proverbial head off, although at times, it may seem that way. It’s just they mean to dominate their market place, by any and all ethical means necessary.

And more times than not, that means total market domination. So they’ll utilize every available resource at their immediate disposal.

And the really competitive ones will stop at nothing. And it’s this side of highly competitive men and women that often (temporarily) gets the best of all of us.

Case in point: remember how you felt when you first started your (on or) offline venture. How high your long term expectations where for long term success.

Hey, nobody was banking on you becoming the next “Mrs. Fields Cookies” or Microsoft etc. But for sure you expected to be successful,right? And why not? There’s only one you,right?

After all, both you, and all of your friends and family said, “your smart, enthusiastic, dedicated and hard working right?”

If You Don’t Define Inspiration….. Failure Will Start To Institute It’s Own Agenda….

So what happens when things don’t immediately gel? You start to question the fact that maybe you did need a little more seed capitol than you originally thought.

Or maybe you did need a little more real world experience regarding business, before you started. And may be there was more competition than you originally anticipated.

Like the stock market, business cycles go up and down. Cash, along with profit margins, (at times) can run razor thin, maybe you hit a really rough spot.Because….

Trusted employee/associates mysteriously quit, steal or get fired etc. Ads and other marketing campaigns fizzle at best. Valued accounts suddenly decide (for no) apparent reason to cancel or transfer their account over to a major competitor.

May be your banker decides not to (either) raise your existing credit limit or call (demand you pay) any short term outstanding loan balances, before they authorize any more credit. Ouch.

Hey, it happens. That’s just a very small sample of what lies ahead for you entrepreneur. (Isn’t being your own boss the bomb?)

Or maybe your social media account (specifically) in this case, hubpages, decides to shut down your account. Like they did yours truly two years back.

Basically rendering all one hundred and twenty three hubs virtually worthless. On the surface anyway. And probably effected 40% of my overall traffic, at the time.

And guess what? To this day, they’ve never reversed their decision. Did it suck? For sure.

Does life go on? For sure. So what’s the point? You either define inspiration or failure will have it’s way with you.

That’s the way and the life of a daring entrepreneur. Is it worth it? for sure.

Just don’t expect your journey to be all peaches and cream.

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