Let’s face it. Storms happen.
I liked how blogging colleague, Peter J. Normandia from Yin vs Yang, put it in his post: Only After the Storm, Do You Truly See the Light.
Building a business can be quite a journey. Everyone knows the road is rough in the beginning, and each day is one fight after another to become, and ultimately stay, successful.
You may be in a situation where your “storms” seems to be overwhelming you.
Knowing that there are others who have been through the odds and coming out stronger, you wonder if there’s any glimmer of hope to see the light at the end of your storm.
You can.
And it’s pretty simple when you understand how.
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Some of my friends have been asking me the following question, and since it’s been asked once too often, I think the answer itself deserves a post on the blog.
“How do you get 5 businesses up in a single month?”
Good question, and I’ve compiled a list of the top 5 answers that would probably help you get started.
1. Start with little. Alright, I don’t own all 5 of them. The first was a flop (“No one’s ever made their first jump.” ~ Matrix), I co-founded the 2nd (a wholesale BBQ in Singapore, now winner of The Green Book Award: Best Food — Gold — 2009/2010), while the other 3 were built to expand my parent’s already existing business. I don’t earn anything from the latter 3, while the I’m only making a tenth from the first 2. Yes, it’s passive. So all is good.
Perhaps one of the huge myths of starting any business is the need for huge capital. Allow me to be fully transparent to all of you. I’ve started in Jan 2010 with S$200 ($140.7954 U.S. dollars); and that included whatever meal expenses I had for the month. Starting with very little got me to really focus on getting only the essentials, and ignoring everything else that aren’t gonna help in anyway. That meant that I can’t hire anyone, neither would I get to travel often (traveling anywhere, even just to meet friends anywhere beyond the neighborhood, is draining on both the daily expenses and energy), nor could I buy the biggest systems or even outsource anything with the hope of spicing up the business.
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Besides having fear that holds one back from making any progress, the other culprit that causes an individual to continually stay in the rut is his / her past.
There were people who may have spoke negative words into the individual’s life, taught wrongly, belittled in public, constant discouragement, failed, and had a heck lot of garbage stored up as bad memories for the person—breaking free from that is seemingly impossible.
I have my fair share of run-ins with such bad experiences. But the good news is that, change from a bad past to a good present is possible!
Allow me to share some of my bad past that turned good.
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