Patience and Consistency: What a Deadly Combo!
Have you ever placed yourself in the position where you’re trying to tackle way too many projects and tasks at once? I’m sure you have, most entrepreneurs are guilty of this.
The reason I believe this happens is for one thing, entrepreneurs are usually self-starters, innovators, people who don’t feel like sitting around watching people conduct business on TV, or sitting in class and listening to professors talk about entrepreneurship for the rest of their lives.
We typically are the ones that want to be out in the field, right smack dead in the middle of all the action and fun!
Another reason I think we go after too many projects at once is we can’t stand to watch a good deal, idea or plan go down the tube without trying to execute upon it.
Like I’ve mentioned before, others around me in my community know that I’m an entrepreneur and that I work in business daily. As a result sometimes people, mostly friends and family, bring me business ideas that they have and sometimes ask me to partner with them to get these businesses off the ground.
Well if the idea sounds like a good one, I can’t help but try and get in on the deal. In the back of my head I can hear a small voice saying, “William, you don’t have the time to do anything else, so don’t even think about.”
Then again something from within, maybe it’s my heart, maybe it’s just my gut, or possibly it’s my rear end making decisions; but whatever body part it is, sometimes it speaks a whole lot louder than my brain and it always steps in and says,
“You got to be kidding me. This is a deal that can’t be passed up! You know that you’ve always wanted to venture in that area on a project, well now this is your chance! Rest, you don’t need any rest, you can rest when you’re dead son!”
So as a result I end up jumping in on this deal and before I know it, I’m absolutely overwhelmed with task and there is no time to take a breath.
There is nothing wrong with us multi-tasking or “multi-venturing” as I like to call it. Hey, it’s just in our blood. However make sure that you are always leaving yourself enough time to handle these projects properly, because the last thing you want to happen is for your work to begin deteriorating, getting sloppy and becoming less than excellent.
The worse case scenario that can result from trying to tackle too many projects and run multiple businesses at once is to hit a wall, get absolutely burnt out, lose your passion and end up throwing in the towel.
When you are able to apply patience while completing projects and couple this with consistency, you will become a beast in the marketplace! Ultimately you won’t spread yourself too thin by trying to do too much and you won’t be so anxious to compromise your intensity, passion and work ethic during your journey as an entrepreneur.
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