Ne lasam amagiti de povestile de succes ale antreprenorilor ce au pornit dintr-un garaj catre culmile gloriei. Adevarul este mult diferit. Cei care reusesc sunt probabil 1-2% din totalul celor ce incearca. Haosul realitatii face ca visul antreprenorului de succes sa se sfarame in scurt timp …

Un articol Marca Cangethis

600,000 new small businesses will be created in the next 12 months. By the end of the year, half of them will have shut their doors forever. Chaos Turns the Dream of Small Business Ownership Into a Nightmare. It’s an inevitable part of owning and running a company. The media tells us story after story about the multi-million dollar opportunities grown out of a garage or dorm room. But few people tell the true story of entrepreneurship—the story of long hours, sleepless nights, endless worry, mental and physical stress, strained family relationships and non-existent social life.

Whether you’ve owned a small business or not, you can imagine the effort required to keep a company up and running. Every week the small business owner must make sales, fulfill on products or services, pay the bills, manage employees, deal with angry customers, update inventory, meet with clients, find vendors, market their business, collect outstanding balances, and read and respond to emails. In addition to all that, somehow you’ve got to stay organized.

Rather than finding more time, money, and freedom as they had hoped, small business owners end up committing everything they’ve got to their companies—becoming shackled to it.

Eventually, organization fails, plans for improvement are forgotten, and the small business owner is forced to run a day-to-day gauntlet. At this point, chaos has conquered the business and enslaved the business owner. Then it’s simply a matter of time before the tired small business owner succumbs completely to the chaos.

Most entrepreneurs are so busy with day-to-day “stuff”, they have no time to create strategies, improve processes, or actually grow their businesses. So, the growth and success of a company is limited to what the business owner can manage herself.

Then, when there are no more hours in the day or money in the bank account, the business comes to an abrupt and painful halt; a halt that could mean the difference between staying in business and throwing in the towel.

Am citit acum ceva timp un over-view pe acceasi tema scris de Alin Popescu (AvocatNet.ro).

Care crezi ca sunt top 3 motive pentru care sa nu recomanzi viata de antreprenor?

Lipsa banilor de care ai nevoie, faptul ca ai mereu nevoie sa educi colegi care incep de la zero activitatea si stresul pe care il genereaza primele doua motive. In trecutul meu de om care se ocupa de o afacere online, am vomitat, am avut tensiunea 20, am plans de bucurie si m-am gandit sa ma angajez la o companie care sa-mi dea si mie “decat 500 de euro” M-a tinut in afacere increderea pe care am avut-o intotdeauna in proiectele pe care le dezvolt. Uneori functionez pe pilot automat (asta e chestia care probabil m-a facut sa nu dau coltul pana acum), alteori imi vine sa iau somnifere.

Dorinta de a schimba ceva in viata ta, de a iesi din cursa sobolanului este de cele mai multe ori infranta de obiceiurile vechi ce te tin prizonier a ceea ce faci si ai mai facut …

Of all people who consciously start personal change, more than 80% will have returned to their old habits within two years. No wonder the world is filled with cynical people that are still in the same job they have hated for over 10 years, still smoke 2 packs of cigarettes everyday and still spend too little time with their kids.

So why do so many of us fail at changing? Why is it so hard to maintain change? How can you successfully develop new and effective habits?

5/95

Prominent psychologists like John Bargh and Roy Baumeister agree that the majority of our behavior comes about unconsciously and automatically. An estimate of the proportions: 5 percent conscious, planned behavior opposite 95 percent unconscious, automatic behavior. This does not only count for “simple” automatic behavior but also for complex, intelligent proceedings. We read automatically, we respond to e-mails and phone calls automatically, we think automatically and we even learn new automatisms automatically.

Only new, unexpected, special cases, for which our brain has not developed an automatic response, require our conscious attention. And that is a good thing because new, conscious, planned behavior requires a lot of energy. Much more energy than repeating unconscious, automatic patterns that have proven successful in the past.

The fact that we act automatically 95 percent of the time is handy when we’re doing “business as usual,” but when change is needed, our automatisms can be an enormous hindrance.

The great thing is this: if you want to change, you don’t have to become a different person. You just have to be more like yourself as you are in your best moments. If you have found your exceptionally good moment, try and describe the behavior that goes with it as precisely as you can. Your brain can’t handle vague intentions. So describe your behavior as descriptively and precisely as possible. What behavior led to these positive moments? Make the description three things: Measurable, Active and Personal (M.A.P.).

Many people are very satisfied if they are working with S.M.A.R.T. goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely) but when it comes to personal development and change, S.M.A.R.T. is not smart enough! S.M.A.R.T. goals only describe what has to be realized at the end of the journey. The tangible behavior necessary to achieve these proposed results—what you need to do—remains a mystery.

If you don’t define behavior, you cannot manage it. But, most people are unable to translate seemingly simple concepts like losing weight, changing jobs, or spending more time with the family into concrete behavior. So… behavior is the weak link between plans and results.

The hard truth is that you don’t see results from most changes for weeks, months or, sometimes, even years.

The first thing that helps is measuring your behavior. Don’t try to measure the result, but simply measure your behavior. Make note of what you do. In this way you pay attention to your behavior and increase that behavior. You can do this by keeping a simple list.

The second thing you can do is to not think in terms of succeeding or failing, but in terms of learning. If you really think your goals are important, you can’t fail because you are learning as you go along.

The third thing you can do is talk to someone everyday about your resolutions, your change. Find a coach in your own surroundings.

The fourth thing that helps is good old-fashioned reward. Reward yourself with little presents when you’ve taken another step towards change.

These are things you have to do continually. Until the results that come of your new behavior become the true reward for your efforts to change.

The great news is that once you’ve made a change in life, you often get the hang of it. One successful change gives self-confidence and provides the motivation to continue to set new goals. Your next change might be the beginning of a whole series of new changes.

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