Being an entrepreneur brings many challenges along with its many benefits. One challenge, in particular, involves how your mindset affects your life and recognizing if you’re setting yourself up for success or failure.
Figuring out what mindset you have involves using your common sense. If you’re afraid to fail, chances are that’s what will happen because you won’t want to take any risks so you won’t take any action. However, it is possible to shift this mindset. So instead of being afraid, you become determined to make your business work. Which scenario do you prefer: Being determined and taking action or being afraid and cowering in a corner, doing nothing?
Here are some other common mindsets that may negatively affect your business.
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How Your Mindset Affects Your Life and Business
The mindset we adopt affects our judgment. A positive mindset means that when you have challenges, you’ll be able to work through them with confidence and clarity. It means that when you are presented with an opportunity you’ll be able to set fears aside and take advantage of the opportunity. And that means a more powerful, and more enjoyable, business.
1. A Negative Mindset Can Affect Your Confidence
How do you react if a boss or client says you made a mistake or they’re not happy with your final product? Does it rock your world for days at a time or can you regroup, make the correction, and move on?
If your brain is telling you to reach for perfection, then of course you’ll be extremely disappointed when you make a mistake or misunderstand your client’s needs. Accept the fact that you’re human and find a way to make the client happy. Then jot down that lesson in a journal or implement a new process so that type of mistake doesn’t happen again.
This lack of confidence may prevent you from taking that jump from employee to entrepreneur to begin with. Do you want to be stuck working in a cubicle for other people or would you like the freedom to set your own hours, accept the clients you want, and to answer only to yourself?
2. A Poverty Mindset Can Affect How You Set Prices
“Money blocks” is a popular buzz phrase lately but there are many stories of solo-entrepreneurs who consistently underprice their services. If you’re underpricing just to get the job, then you run the risk of not earning enough to pay your bills and you’re telling prospects subliminally that you don’t value yourself enough.
If clients baulk at paying your prices, then those aren’t the right clients for you.
3. An Imposter Mindset Can Affect How You Present Yourself To Others
Another common theme among solo-entrepreneurs is feeling like an imposter, especially if their skills are self-taught or their market has thousands of competitors already. Feeling like an imposter also feeds into these other situations above, where you lack confidence and don’t charge your worth because you feel like you’re not good enough. Portraying this image to prospects will likely cause them to reconsider hiring you, simply because they want to be fully confident that you are competent to do the job.
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Knowing and understanding your mindset about different aspects of your business is important for your personal growth as well as your business growth. But don’t despair. Mindset shifts are certainly possible with some steady practice. Very often it involves changing that negative self-talk into positive self-talk, or adopting the opposite thought. So if you don’t feel confident about a situation, think about all the good work you have done for your clients instead and read their testimonials. Done frequently enough, your confidence will grow.
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