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“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” –Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple

Along with listening to my Udemy courses on marketing, Instagram and business I read articles on Forbes, Inc. and Entrepreneur. My takeaways are these:

1. You MUST develop a business plan. This is your roadmap, your handbook, your guide for where you see your business and what exactly you want to do. There are some great questions in a business plan that force you to think past “I have a great idea for a business”. Get specific and plan specific goals. You can do this FOR FREE on SBA.gov.
2. NO ONE gets rich quick. You better be in this for the long haul, just like a new diet/health/fitness regime.  Building a brand, empire, business takes time.  And failures. And frustrations. You can take a sneaky route and trick people into giving you money (more on this later) but that does not build a solid, longstanding business that you can be proud of. THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS. Period.
3. If you want different results, change you actions. Or as Tony Robbins says ““If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
4. Don’t let fear hold you back.  “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -Thomas Edison, Inventor
5. There is no time like to present to start. Stop looking for reasons to wait. “Today” was at one point “tomorrow”.

There was a advertisement in the newspaper long ago that is applicable to social media today. It said “Make $1000 a week from home!“. You had to mail in $50 dollars for the kit which would tell you how to make this money. Do you know what the kit was? A piece of paper telling you to put an ad in the paper telling people that could make $1000 a week from home. Think about it….

Bottom line? Build your business based on old-fashioned values and hard work. You will go farther, be happier and do more good in this world. Think of businesses you like to frequent and mirror their values.  Write a business plan, look at legitimate business sites for advice and ignore all those weirdos out there trying to sell you crap to get started.