Understanding the way that the mind game of starting and operating an online business differs from an offline business is crucial. The dynamics are totally different in almost every respect. Yet get the mindset right and you can have an unstoppable business venture.
These dynamics involve certain key aspects, and not least the issue of time and place. As to Time, starting your on line business can be achieved at any time of the day or night, in any time zone on the globe. You can manage and operate it from the word go on the same basis and at any time it suits you
.And as to place, you can do that from on any point on the globe, sitting in a house or apartment, in its garden, in an office, in a moving vehicle, on a beach or on a boat.
The availability of a wired or wireless broadband connection is all that is necessary.
What conventional offline business can do that?
Now there are some one-man-offline-businesses not in any way related to the internet, but they are still most often tied to a place and to conventional business hours. Where they are not, then still I believe what I write here will apply to them too.
So, in your solo role as a budding online business entrepreneur, who do you talk to about your business day by day? Will you in all likelihood have a secretary, or personal assistant to share thoughts with? No. A manager? No again. A driver or yardman, or anyone to think aloud with? No, yet again.
What you have is a timeless, domicile less, person less business encased in your PC/Laptop and in your mind. When your mind, and your mind alone wishes and decides to action some work in your online business, it does so, there and then. Otherwise it can rely on its software and operate while you are asleep, in a way very few offline businesses can.
Without developing the required mindset to work alone like a solo yachtsman, the vast majority of front line recruits to the business world of the internet give up, largely because they feel they cannot sustain their mission on their own. But why not? Why can some and not others?
Acknowledging the key cognitive components is vital and how they need to be espoused to get an online business up and running.
Carrying a detailed picture in ones head of the planned business must come first. Even better, the plan should exist in hard copy form.
An acceptance that the faster one tries to build the business the greater ones resolve will need to be to face the proportionately greater number of frustrations, obstacles and handicaps which will appear. Can they be overcome? Of course, but it will need you most often to overcome them in the privacy of your computer.Rarely can it be a shared exercise.
Commitment, dedication and determination are words that must feature large in one's personal vocabulary from the first day.
You may ask, is there no way to reduce this lonesome activity. I believe there is and I believe it offers a double advantage. I suggest you look for business liaisons and relationships online that operate regular webinars or at least provide you with video tutorials..
Even if you listen, but better if you take part in the conversation, you can soon find solutions to unsolved problems. By so doing you can increase your own inspiration and motivation by hearing others rehearse the same issues you have and how they solved them.
But the other advantage is this. Webinars set up for your benefit demonstrate that the person or the partners organising them do really care about you and how they can help you succeed
. That is a great sign of good mentors.One final test I would add is, Can I get this person helping me on the phone if I need them or are they anonymous. If you can, and if you can commit to learning to play the mind game necessary to mastermind the success of your online business, then success will be the result.
Very best wishes in your online endeavours.
Sir Gerry Neale has lectured and trained under-graduates and post graduates at the University of Westminster in cognitive thinking. He has mentored courses for corporate strategic planning and how to position the organisation's and the individual's thinking in relation to them. He has conducted counselling and life coaching programmes with individuals in person and online.
He can be reached on http://cognitivementors.blogspot.com and http://startinganonlinebusinessisamindgame.blogspot.com/
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