Slow entrepreneurship is like slow food: discover the secret of successful business
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Slow seems to be strictly forbidden in the world of entrepreneurs. Everything has to be fast. “Money loves speed”, my former marketing mentor always said. And because we as entrepreneurs like to make money, we go along with it. The number of independent professionals I speak to who think they are going “too slow” is now almost countless. Because they think more speed is needed, they rush or feel like a snail that should be going faster. And snails cannot be good entrepreneurs.
The negative feeling about yourself as an entrepreneur and that nagging feeling that it should be faster and better. In my opinion, it is unhealthy for you. It causes (unnoticed) stress that sooner or later takes its toll and definitely reduces the quality of your life.
Who decides what the right pace is?
That it should be faster seems a fact but in reality it is complete nonsense. Bullshit that we tend to collectively believe in. Because who decides what the right pace is? You yourself. And if you can't stick to your own self-invented timeline, you hit yourself on the head. While ignoring the fact that you came up with the deadline afghanistan telegram number list yourself. The timeline you invented seemed real when you invented it, but it was nothing more than that: a real- seeming fiction. Real-seeming. But reality has shown that it was unrealistic. You can fight against that, resist and stone yourself for it, but reality will not bow to that. Your planning and timeline are wrong. So stop beating yourself up for it and come up with all sorts of reasons why the actual pace is the wrong one.
analog clocks on the wall
Doing business takes time
I notice more and more that business takes time – whether you do business online or offline. Ideas take time to mature, creative plans take time to develop. Mailing lists are not built in a few days, websites always bring time-consuming unexpected problems, and new skills are never routine in a day. Just like children, companies do not grow to maturity in a few months! Sometimes the time is not right for what you want anyway. No matter how much you judge the (snail's) pace at which your company is developing: you are getting somewhere.
Slow seems to be strictly forbidden in the world of entrepreneurs. Everything has to be fast. “Money loves speed”, my former marketing mentor always said. And because we as entrepreneurs like to make money, we go along with it. The number of independent professionals I speak to who think they are going “too slow” is now almost countless. Because they think more speed is needed, they rush or feel like a snail that should be going faster. And snails cannot be good entrepreneurs.
The negative feeling about yourself as an entrepreneur and that nagging feeling that it should be faster and better. In my opinion, it is unhealthy for you. It causes (unnoticed) stress that sooner or later takes its toll and definitely reduces the quality of your life.
Who decides what the right pace is?
That it should be faster seems a fact but in reality it is complete nonsense. Bullshit that we tend to collectively believe in. Because who decides what the right pace is? You yourself. And if you can't stick to your own self-invented timeline, you hit yourself on the head. While ignoring the fact that you came up with the deadline afghanistan telegram number list yourself. The timeline you invented seemed real when you invented it, but it was nothing more than that: a real- seeming fiction. Real-seeming. But reality has shown that it was unrealistic. You can fight against that, resist and stone yourself for it, but reality will not bow to that. Your planning and timeline are wrong. So stop beating yourself up for it and come up with all sorts of reasons why the actual pace is the wrong one.
analog clocks on the wall
Doing business takes time
I notice more and more that business takes time – whether you do business online or offline. Ideas take time to mature, creative plans take time to develop. Mailing lists are not built in a few days, websites always bring time-consuming unexpected problems, and new skills are never routine in a day. Just like children, companies do not grow to maturity in a few months! Sometimes the time is not right for what you want anyway. No matter how much you judge the (snail's) pace at which your company is developing: you are getting somewhere.