The Entrepreneur Plague That Hits All Business Owners

We’re all God’s highest form of creation. We all bleed red blood. We all breathe oxygen.

And that truth got me thinking…
Why should somebody else determine my pay rate?
Why should somebody else control my time?
Why should somebody else limit the impact I can make?
… if we are all made in the same image.

And that’s what kickstarted made me make the switch from an employee to an employer.

When I dissect it, what it really came down to is one intense desire: Freedom.

Being a brand new insurance agent is hard. I won’t sugar-coat it. Not physically, but certainly mentally. It takes relentless discipline. And THAT right there, is the biggest hurdle any entrepreneur will ever have to clear.

You will need to build up your mental strength to push through the things that exhaust you, that try like hell to tear you down. Things like:

• When a stranger hangs up on you after saying they didn’t request this information.
• When someone slams a door in your face when you show up for your booked appointment saying they are no longer interested.
• When your friends criticize your new business, chirp at you about how you’re not making any money anyway, so why not join them for happy hour.

Are you going to decide to keep going when this doesn’t feel good? When the going gets tough? When you don’t feel like it?

That’s the entrepreneur plague.

Unfortunately, more often than not, those new to the entrepreneurship space — whether in insurance, real estate, MLM, whatever — say, “I don’t feel like it” and just allow that thought to be.

Think about it: You might have said it today…

“You know, I should get up at 5:30 and work out. Get a good breakfast early, and be on the phones dialing my insurance leads by 7:45 at the latest.”

Then your alarm goes off at 5:30, and you hit snooze thinking, “You know what? I can afford to miss a workout. I’ll get up at 7:45 instead, and be on the phones by 9. That’s perfect.

But wait, there’s a call at 10 I should be on, so I’ll jump on the phones at 11 and dial until 1:30, have lunch, and get back to it. That should be fine, yeah… yeah…”

Next thing you know, it’s 3pm and you haven’t accomplished near as much as you’d hope. “Well… there’s always tomorrow.”

I challenge you to take a hard look at that, and examine if that’s ever happened to you. I think if we’re honest with ourselves, we’ve experienced the same lack of discipline — same lack of mental power — in one way, shape or form, at some point in our journey.

I have, and that’s the reason I bring it up. There’s many days where I don’t feel like it, but there are many more days where I’ve established principles and stick-to-itveness within myself where I’ve said,

“I know I don’t feel like it, but I can’t let that Grady win. I can’t let that Grady be the deciding factor whether my kids are going to eat well forever, or if we’re going to have to go borrow money from my parents.”

And that’s the thing…

As you progress through life, and business, you have to find this mental discipline within yourself to go, “I’m not going to stay where I am anymore. I’m not going to remain average and ordinary. I’m going to build something and create a person inside of me who’s unrecognizable to who I am today.”

May you start to tell yourself the same.

Stay strong, stay positive.

Until next time,
GP