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Small Business Opportunities And The Ten's

You may find this Newsletter a little long winded but it's for a good cause: It's all designed for Your Success!

One of my favorite quotes is by Alfred d'Souza. It goes like this:

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin, real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." - Alfred d'Souza

What I love about the above quote is that it has a very strong yet well hidden message in it.

Let me attempt to have you get it!

Any business that belongs to you is better than any job where all you end up doing is making someone else's dreams come true at your expense.

However, where most people fail in business, as in Life, is when they find themselves waiting for their issues to get handled before ever even starting on their own road toward their very own dreams and aspirations.

You see; most people fail in business because they never get started in the first place. "there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got through first"

Hence they shut down their project prematurely, somehow justifying the act because of some circumstance that was in the way (not enough money, experience etc.) Yet, they fail to realize that this wasn't something new in their lives.

They get sucked in to the drift of being human. They give up! They abandon ship!

Most small business opportunities start-up as solutions driven projects, backed by much enthusiasm. Yet they end up as "just another string" of events and small bursts of activities (brilliantly executed with much success I might add) ending by making yet another "almost successful entrepreneur" right about his or her failure.

I have been working closely with YOU for many years now and this, I have discovered to be true.

The real challenge with small business opportunities as opposed to big business opportunities is that; with a small business, less is at stake making it easy to give up.

Big business means higher stakes. You can't walk away for big business the way you can from small businesses. There simply is no option to walk away...

Herein lies one of the best kept secrets in business (there are many others but this is one of my favorites. I call it the "NO BACK DOOR" approach. It requires a unique commitment to keeping your word. It also requires a further commitment to keeping that commitment of keeping your word.

Once your commitment is in place, all you need to succeed is to commit to it "NO MATTER WHAT". Success is inevitable inside this kind of commitment. Failure (the back door in this case) is just not an option. You are doomed to honor your WORD as YOUR SELF and you give your word to yourself.

"Yeah right", you say!

Yup! That's right!

At least, I believe it to be one of the most profound truths about business... and success in Life for that matter.

So how does one apply a truth such as this in real Life?

First, there must exist "thinking" (and I mean original thought), not all this nonsense that you and I call thinking.

I refered, in an earlier Newsletter, to that "little voice" we listen to while we shower in the morning. The joke is that we believe these (automatic) thoughts to be thinking.

Sorry guys and girls! These are just thoughts. Quite different from thinking! Yours and my automaticity is our worst enemy as entrepreneurs. We must find a way to break the drift (of these thoughts) and replace it with a new kind of thinking. The kind of thinking that wasn't going to happen anyway. Therein lies, I believe, many more ideas and secret keys to lead you to whatever level of success you desire.

At this point, I'd like to share some guidance, some fundamental laws of business that if you put a little heart and lots of thinking into them, you will find yourself supercharged for success.

Small Business Opportunities are everywhere to be found. Whatever business opportunities attract you, remember to apply some golden rules. I must thank Quincy Scarborough for his great insights into the following passages.