Don't Let Other People's Walls Fence You In
by
Jim Donovan |
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"How's
it going?" I asked the clerk in the new bookstore.
"Well you know," she
replied "it takes a long time to build a business."
I caught myself just before I
muttered in agreement and instead said, "Does it?"
You see, the clerk is simply
repeating a commonly held belief, a global belief that it takes a
long time to build a business. This is not a fact just simply a
belief and limiting one at that.
Unfortunately, it is held by enough
people that would begin to believe it's a fact. We are surrounded by
limiting global beliefs. Throughout history, people have been held
back by these beliefs. The world is flat, man cannot run a
four-minute mile, man was not meant to fly and on and on until
someone came along and disproved them.
There is a commonly held belief that
80% of new businesses fail in their first five years. This is simply
not true, this particular inaccuracy is a distorted version for fact
from the Small Business Administration, that said that of the
businesses that fail, 80% do so in the first 5 years. That's a very
different statistic.
 I'll bet these limiting global
beliefs hold you back. Don't be the clerk in the bookstore and
automatically assume that it will take a long time to succeed. By
making this incorrect assumption they hinder their chances for
immediate success until the appropriate amount of time passes.
It has been said that if you expect
the best you'll very often receive it. Expect to succeed, expect
everything to go smoothly and do everything you can to assure it
does.
Just because someone or some group of
people believe something will be difficult, or take a long time,
does not make it so. Don't let their walls fence you in. Create your
own beliefs, ones that will support you and increase your chances
for success.
By the way, many businesses have been
successful from the very first day. Business that one-day opened to
the public and never looked back.
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