MBA2721 Are You Cut Out For Business?

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I'm your host, Omar Zenholm, where I deliver practical business lessons three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, to help you start, grow and scale your business. Before we jump in, can I get 30 seconds of your time? We love guiding you on your business journey and we want to help even more people build their dream businesses. And so if you could hit the follow button on this podcast app, it would be greatly appreciated. It's completely free and it helps us out more than you know. Thanks. When someone asks, am I cut out for business? What they're actually asking is, do I have what it takes to handle uncertainty? Can I deal with pressure? Can I stay consistent when no one is watching? Can I bet on myself and follow through? And the truth is, entrepreneurship is not a personality test. It's a capacity test. Your capacity to learn, your. Your capacity to adapt, your capacity to change, your capacity to stay in the game long enough for the game to reward you. That's the real question. People think founders are superhuman. They don't need sleep. They have no fear. They have no doubt all the vision in the world. All the confidence, all the bravado, absolute nonsense. I've coached thousands of entrepreneurs and I found that most of the most successful ones are are pretty average people. I built a multimillion dollar SaaS company from scratch, sold it for life changing money. I taught on this podcast for over 11 years. I've published over 2,700 podcast episodes and I can tell you with full certainty, successful entrepreneurs are not special. They're just willing to do things most people don't. If you cut out six traits, six traits that separate them. I'm going to share all six, starting with trait number one. You take responsibility for your life. If you're cut out for business, you have one trait above all other traits and that's you take responsibility. You don't blame the market, you don't blame your boss. You don't blame the algorithm. You don't blame your family. You don't blame the economy. You don't blame the fact that you're a minority. You don't blame the fact that you didn't grow up with money. You don't blame anybody but yourself. You take responsibility and say, no matter what, I have to take control. It's my responsibility to make something happen. This is on me, and if it's on me, I can change it. That's the mindset. And that mindset alone will put you ahead of 99% of people in the world. Entrepreneurs don't look for permission, they look for responsibility. Because when you're responsible, you have ownership. And when you have ownership, you win. Trait number two, you can learn anything you need to learn. Entrepreneurship is a learning sport. You don't need to know everything, but you need to believe. You can learn anything if you need to. Whether it's marketing, sales, product, finance, hiring, leadership, problem solving. You know that if you need to learn it, you can do it. You can figure it out. I built Wobin or Ninja, my software company, from nothing. Nobody taught me SaaS. I never had any experience in software before. Nobody taught me about fundraising, or how to raise capital, or how to pre launch or how to make money, or how to be able to pay your hires or any of that. No one taught me ux. No one taught me ui. No one taught me how to hire a tech team, how to build an infrastructure. I learned because my survival and the survival of my business depended on it. You don't need expertise, you need the belief that you can acquire expertise. Trick number three, you show up when you're not motivated. Listen, it's easy to do the things you love. And when you're feeling pumped, that's easy. The hard part, the challenging part is, is doing things when you don't feel like it. This one thing knocks 90% of the people out. You don't need to be obsessed. You don't need to work 16 hour days. You don't need to hustle to your eyes bleed. But you do need consistency. Before I was a full time entrepreneur, I was a teacher and I was building businesses on the side. But I spent two three hour sessions during the week to build my business. I spent all of Saturday building my business, working on it and really going after my dream. Not because I was inspired every day and I was like the energizer bunny, but because I made a commitment to my future self. I said to myself, if I want to make an out of this job, I need to invest in my future self. I need to put in the time, I need to commit to it, I need to focus. And if I don't do that, if I get lazy, if I miss that evening session or I don't do it on Saturday and work on my business, then I'm giving up. Then I'm not fulfilling my end of the bargain. I can't expect to be successful if I don't do the work. Motivation will get you started, but systems are what get you successful.

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You can handle uncertainty. Listen. Business is unpredictable. Customers leave, launches might flop, people quit on you, ideas crash, the market shifts. You can have some tough days. If you crumble every time something unexpected happens and this is going to happen, it's going to be a really rough ride for you. The entrepreneurs who succeed aren't fearless. They they're courageous. Actually, courage is not the absence of fear. It's moving forward despite your fear. And business rewards people who stay calm while the world is shaking. Trait number five, you actually want to solve problems. If you're annoyed by problems, you're going to hate entrepreneurship. Because entrepreneurship, business is the problem solving game. You're in the business of solving problems. One long stream of problems, right? Solve enough problems and you're going to get paid. The bigger the problems you solve, the more you get paid. Solving problems consistently, you become unstoppable in the marketplace. Entrepreneurs aren't chasing escape, right? They're chasing meaningful problems because they know that equals dollars. The best way to put it is entrepreneurs aren't problem free, they're problem fueled. Trait number six, you can think long term. This one is huge. If you're looking for quick wins, if you want overnight success, if you think six months is a long time, you're not ready. Business rewards patience. The slow, consistent builder beats the frantic sprinter every single time. I'm 11 years into this podcast, the $100 MBA show, over 2,700 episodes. Nine no breaks, no gaps. And the compounding effect is pretty insane. And I'm just getting started. I feel like I'm just getting started. I have so much more to achieve. Business really isn't hard. Staying in the game long enough is. It's an endurance game. Can you withstand the pain of time? And that's really what it is. Can you just really make it happen despite the fact it's taking longer than you expected? So are you cut off for business? Well, we now know it has nothing to do with confidence or charisma or personality or creativity or passion or being outgoing or how many entrepreneur books you've read. That helps. But it has very little to do with any of that stuff. It has everything to do with your willingness to take responsibility, to learn to. To adapt, to show up consistently, to handle uncertainty, to solve problems, to think long term. If you're willing to do these things not perfectly but to the best of your ability, then yes, you are cut out for business. You're more than cut out for business you're designed for. If this episode has given you clarity, share with someone who keeps asking themselves if they're cut out for business. If they've been umming and ahhing about starting a business. You know who I'm talking about. Go ahead and send them a message and give them the link to this episode on whatever app you're listening to, to or watching this episode on. Before I go, I want to leave you with this you don't need permission. You don't need to be born with the entrepreneur DNA. You don't need to be special. You just need to commit to showing up. The only way you can really fail is if you give up. Don't give up. Entrepreneurship isn't a personality type, it's a choice. Take that choice, bet on yourself and keep moving forward. If you found today's episode helpful and you want more practical business lessons to help you start, grow and scale your business, the best thing you could do is subscribe to this podcast. Hit subscribe or follow on your favorite podcast app, the one that you're using right now. Whether it's Apple or Spotify or ever, you listen to podcasts by hitting subscribe, you get our next episode automatically and it's the best way to support the show. It's absolutely free and it's a way for you to commit to to growing your business. And now that you've subscribed, I'll check you in the next episode.

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