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Top 5 lessons in my first year of business (part 1)

Name: Top 5 lessons in my first year of business (part 1)
Uploaded: 2022-07-16T10:45:00+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: This YouTube monologue ("Top 5 lessons in my first year of business (part 1)") presents the creator Peter Vander Wall sharing lessons from his first year…

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This YouTube monologue ("Top 5 lessons in my first year of business (part 1)") presents the creator Peter Vander Wall sharing lessons from his first year as a business owner. In this chunk he emphasizes Lesson #1: "bet on yourself" — making and keeping promises to yourself builds self-trust, enabling progressively harder commitments. He describes having little financial cushion when going full-time, but believing in his business trajectory and committing to hard work; the result has been a dramatic life change, though he notes he is not "there yet."

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Top 5 things I've learned in my First Year as a Business Owner Part one. You need to bet on yourself. You're the number one person who can make an impact in your life. If you can make promises to yourself and then keep them, you're gonna build a load of trust with yourself and that's gonna enable you to do harder and harder and harder things as time goes on. You know, when I first went full time with my business, I wasn't making a ton of money at that point. I didn't have some huge cushion that I could land on if things went south. But I saw the trajectory that my business was going and I knew the opportunities that would come my way if I kept working incredibly hard on this business. And none of this is to say that I'm there yet, but I've made a dramatic change in my life because I made a commitment to myself and I kept it like and follow for more.