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Originally Posted by chicagosuccess  See, I think if your desire is to make the business work, you can't put a deadline on when you're going to give up. To me, that's employee mentality and sets you up for failure. I'm not saying don't have goals, but don't put a drop dead failure date. No, "If I'm not doing X by X date than I'll quit." More, "My goal is to be making X dollars by X date." The great thing about obtainable goals is that even if you happen to miss them, they can be reset. |
Good advice. Running a business is never linear, whereas being an employee usually is. You have to think of your goals in a different fashion, one that doesn't bring some sort of grim spectre of "FAIL!" if you happen to fall a bit short. A dollar goal is a great idea, because then you'll be in more of a mindset to diversify and optimize all of your income streams.
As far as your man is concerned...mmm. He sounds a bit jealous. I don't know. He may be threatened. Could it be that he's always wanted to start a business, but doesn't have the same self-starter mentality that you do? He could be resenting you. Starting a business is a sign of major growth, or at least the beginnings of it, and people don't like change. You
will change, I guarantee it, and you may want to start surrounding yourself with people that have different mentalities and goals. I'm struggling with my closest friendship right now, because my goals and outlook have changed. Just something to think about!