By Caroline Castrillon — 2019
If you’re an entrepreneur, tapping into your intuition can play a critical role in helping you reach your goals.
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The life of an entrepreneur isn’t necessarily easy. As the pop-culture phrase has it: “The struggle is real.”
For new and young entrepreneurs, there are some unique challenges that are especially difficult to overcome. If you’re just getting into the game, or you’re thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, be prepared for these eight significant hurdles.
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Overcoming challenges as an entrepreneur is part of the job description. But believing that you can do this, and scanning for the solutions to get you there, is what has helped these business owners achieve their goals.
While trusting your gut can be scary and challenging at first, it’s an important skill for all entrepreneurs to learn so that they can confidently make the many decisions that will impact their business.
A recurrent theme in our interviews with [these] award-winning entrepreneurs was the powerful role of intuition—or instinct, gut feeling, a “spidey sense.”
Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have all said they use intuition for business and let’s face it, they have had quite a bit of success with it.
Our intuition, at least in part, is probably related to the experiences we’ve had and what we are doing is quickly processing an interpretation of a situation based on those experiences.
Entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Steve Jobs,and Oprah Winfrey rely on their intuition to make decisions. You can’t argue with success.
Many of us have thought of or dreamed about leaving that job to pursue our dreams, maybe start a business, or pursue our passion. While there are practical issues to consider, we also need to overcome the inertia that comes with the fear we experience when taking a major new direction in our lives.
Sadness is a central part of our lives, yet it’s typically ignored at work, hurting employees and managers alike.