3 Success Hacks For New Entrepreneurs
They say that the catalyst for change comes from one of two places: inspiration or desperation.
And if you’re really lucky, like I was, you are catapulted into something different by a little bit of both.
When I made the choice to dive into entrepreneurship, and specifically into insurance sales, I remember feeling both exhilarated and anxious.
It was a whole new industry, which would require me to become, essentially, a whole new person.
Throughout the journey (and one I’m still walking today), these are the top 3 things that, once I was able to get a handle on them, became the biggest facets to my growth — both personally and professionally.
#1. Belief. Above all else, you have to believe in yourself and what it is you are pursuing after. If you don’t, who will?
Here are a few practical ways to increase your belief:
→ Write down what you are after on sticky notes and plaster them everywhere (your bathroom mirror, your dashboard in your car, the ceiling above your bed, the refrigerator door, etc.)
→ Share your dreams and goals with those you trust, so they can encourage you and hold you accountable to them.
→ Follow people online and surround yourself with people who have been where you are, and now have what you want.
→ Celebrate the small wins (in insurance sales specifically, that could look like getting another appointment on the books during dial day, and/or saving a policy from cancelling with an annual review, etc.)
#2. Discipline. You have to learn how to develop uncompromisable integrity within yourself. You wouldn’t tell your boss you would do something, and then just not do it (for whatever the reason may be), right? Right.
As an insurance professional — and entrepreneur of any sort — you are your own boss. Start treating yourself like it.
Here are a few practical ways to increase your discipline:
→ Start simple. Decide to get up tomorrow morning at 6am. Set your alarm, and plug your phone in across the room so when it goes off, you have to get up.
→ Get an accountability partner. Find someone who will push you to follow through on the things you said you were going to do.
→ Track your progress, so that you can see the benefits that you reap from sowing self-discipline.
#3. Mindset. This is the capstone of it all. Everything you do is a result of what happens within the 6 inches between your ears.
Here are a few practical ways to increase your mindset:
→ Find the positives in every “negative”. Get a flat tire on the way into the office? Great! Looks like you avoided what could’ve been a catastrophic accident.
→ Focus only on what is in your control: your activity and your attitude. Everything else that happens “to” you, is happening for you (as a benefit, even if you can’t see it).
→ Invest in your thoughts. Read the books, listen to the podcasts, buy the courses, go to the seminars, position yourself in crowds that force you to think bigger, even faster.
→ KEEP GOING. Think positive > Speak positive > Live positive.
Master your mindset, and you win.
You can do this. Really, you can.
Believe it. Consume it. Embody it.
It’s your time to level up — to step into who you are meant to be.
Excited to be on this journey with you.
Talk soon,
GP
