It comes from every angle: personal life and business. It’s unavoidable.
This should only take about 7 mins to read.
What’s been the most challenging part of your entrepreneurship journey?
Here are some of the responses I received:
• Learning how to build with a different energy that comes from deep trust (and patience).
• The psychology of lots of little failures, and few big wins • Not having a business partner as a sounding board is challenging for a solopreneur.
• There is no roadmap. Figuring things out has been a painful path of iteration.
• Getting out of my way (that and marketing)
• The most challenging part of entrepreneurship for me is committing to ONE strategy long enough to gauge its effectiveness.
• Remaining in a profitable margin is the hardest part of entrepreneurship. Cash profitable. Emotion profitable. Partnership profitable. Profit margin has many faces.
• The most challenging part has to be staying consistent.
It comes from every angle: personal life and business. It’s unavoidable.
Let’s talk business. There is an abundance of information flying around every corner of the internet: blogs, newsletters (like this one), videos, podcasts, tik-toks, and so on.
Who do you listen to?
Where do you start?
How do you approach it?
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This is an underrated option. Find someone who can guide you through the process and help you see things differently.
Most of us get caught up looking at something too long, and then we get tunnel vision. A fresh pair of eyes and a fresh view can give you a new perspective.
Videos, Podcasts, Newsletters, Blogs.
Listen, read, and watch for authenticity. It’s obvious when someone is authentic and when they are just blowing smoke up your ass.
Once you zero in on a few people, you sense that authenticity from, go one level deeper into their journey. 70-80% of the information you need will be online.
Who you surround yourself with impacts how you operate and move within your business (or personal life). Over the past year, I’ve joined 4-5 unique online communities; some are indie hackers, marketing, coaching, etc.
At the end of the day, we are all going through similar challenges and obstacles. In today’s age, people are open to sharing what they’ve learned, what mistakes to avoid, and how to overcome specific challenges. Guidance is everywhere; choose wisely who you listen to and what advice you put into action.
Gentle reminder:
If anyone is selling you a guaranteed solution to your challenges, don’t buy it — it doesn’t exist.
Tweet 1: this is a thread I wrote earlier in the week, it's a playbook to help people get to their first 1000 Followers on Twitter.
Tweet 2: Awesome thread by Kieran Drew about how he grew his online business.
Check out the What Is My Brain? Tik-Tok channel →
That's a wrap for issue #26. Thank you for reading.
Email me at z@zlatkobijelic.com if you are building something. I'd love to know what you're working on and if there is anything I can do to help you.
Random question:
What's the one thing in your life that you've been most consistent about?
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