“Hoooraay!”
Nicky offered a gleeful cheer and a leap of joy as she declared that today … at what had proved a very quiet trade fair, her start-up business had received it’s very first order!
Great news indeed.
“It’s success Charlie, I’m so pleased!” Nicky cried.
Nicky had every right to be happy. That first acknowledgement of the faith she has in her very own enterprise will stay with her for a long while.
It’s relief, validation of her actions and in her product and service. It can be tricky for anyone wishing to start their own business. Today’s fickle, competitive, and somewhat demoralising world calls for a tough skin.
The very process of declaring yourself ‘open for business’ calls for bravery. Although working for yourself doesn’t call for being anything other than transparent. Being yourself.
While we understand Nicky’s delight in her first order, isn’t it great news? We should understand that success does not start with the first exchange of cash for goods.
Some would say success is in the very fact that you step out, decide to start out on your own in the first place!
I/we believe that to be true, don’t you think?
So, that very start. Before we start trading. Even in advance of company formation and bank(?) account, that tricky market positioning and publicity … all that ‘stuff’ is way, way ‘down the line’ in the pursuit of success.
We should first turn our thoughts to recognition. By working toward validation from peers that you can be trusted as a credible person and with a viable product … this is the most important ingredient to success. Imagine who they know?
For, until we have affinity with like minds, those contacts within our business or social sphere … the pursuit of satisfaction through real success may be lonely, and tougher than it should be.
So, it’s further Hooooraaay!! Congratulations! A warm welcome from all to the business world Nicky, as you work smart building that trusted network.
‘people buy from people’
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