Jason Wasser, LMFT 🎗️Founder, Shevet Collective · Therapy & Coaching for Entrepreneurs, Family Businesses 🖥 Certified Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner Founder Shevet Collective 🎧Host:You Winning Life Podcast 🎤

The Harsh Reality of Bad Days in Business

18 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Speaker A emphasizes that experiencing more bad days than good ones is a normal and essential part of running a business. Frequent poor days serve as feedback, helping entrepreneurs identify ineffective practices, refine processes, and build better systems. A focus on immediate success or quick gratification is portrayed as misguided, suggesting that those seeking instant payoff should consider traditional employment instead. Speaker B concurs, describing the entrepreneurial journey as a "sifting and sorting" process where many ventures must endure prolonged periods before achieving profitability, especially for larger companies that often become profitable much later.

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And most people don't understand that it is extremely normal for your day to be horrible, for think, for having more bad days than successful days. In, in business, you have this random good day, but a bunch of bad ones, a bunch of bad ones. But all those bad ones are helping you get somewhere. You're identifying what's working, what's not working, how to do something better, how to improve the process of, of things. But you are creating systems and evaluating the way that a business should operate. So absolutely not. When you're immediately targeting success and looking for immediate gratification, you're in the wrong business. That's when you better get a job and then you'll get an immediate paycheck.
Yeah. Yeah. I see it as that sifting and sorting process, right? That if someone— because most of those bigger companies, for them to actually be profitable, right, is so much later on.