The 3 Mental Blocks That Sabotage Career Ambition

Here are the reformatted captions with proper line breaks: If you want to start a business, but you're always hesitating. I totally get it. Because most people get stuck. before they ever get started. I've been building businesses for over 20 years. Some of them have failed spectacularly. Some of them have succeeded more than I ever dreamt. And right now I'm in the middle of a brand new one. One of the things that I I've seen over time is that most people who have ideas just don't do anything with it and that's why they never even have the chance to succeed. So today I'm going to share with you the three things that I've learned that really stop people from starting. And what you can do differently So you can be one of those people. who have a real business, a story to tell, and a chance to succeed. The first mistake most people make is they spend their time daydreaming, brainstorming, and hoping for the perfect idea. But, that doesn't exist. There's no such thing. The best ideas come after you start something, not before. Airbnb started as a couple of guys that just wanted to rent out a mattress on the floor of their apartment so they could pay rent. "And we had this idea. What if we just turned our house into a bed and breakfast? Joe had three air beds. And we call it airbedandbreakfast.com." Reed started Netflix because he got a $40 late fee on a video from Blockbuster. "If you were late, you had a late fee. And I thought oh my gosh, I wonder if you could mail a DVD." They're billion dollar companies. And even talking about them is a bit of a mistake on my part, because, the reality is most businesses, the business you probably need to create for yourself are going to be boring. They're going to be small. And that is okay. You don't have to be a visionary to create a business. You're not going to have a perfect idea. All you need to do is come up with any idea, something that needs to be solved and then to go after it. And if you don't have that idea yet, the best thing you can do is go work somewhere. You may hear about the whiz kids and the 21-year-old that builds an app. But most people are a little older and the reason for that is because they've worked places where they've seen real frustrations. That's where they got their idea for their business. Or they've seen the limitations of working for other people. They've been laid off, they've hit a plateau, and they realize the only way they're going to create the life they want for themselves is to do something a little bit differently. That's what you need to do. It's gonna change you're gonna get it wrong at the beginning but As you go through the motions. Your ideal will become whatever you needed to become to create the life you want. A lot of people will tell you to follow your passion, but honestly, that's the type of advice that keeps a lot of us broke. Passion is something that you feel internally, but passion alone will not create a business for you. A business is created from frustration. It's created from seeing a problem, something you don't want to do or something that other people will pay, to just go away. You just have to find the right thing. And then once you do, that passion people talk about, it'll grow. Passion comes from taking action, from being an owner of something. You know, this really came together for me when I was early on in my career. I worked at a company that was inherently and objectively very boring. It was healthcare data integration. It was something that no one talks about. I didn't even know existed, but when I met the founder, when I learned about the business, I realized that he took a frustration he had and turned it into the love of his life. He's been running it for over 20 years at this point. Every year has been profitable and It's not a household name. But, his passion rivals that, of any other executive or founder I've ever met in my life. So stop asking yourself what it is you're passionate about, know that that will come. start asking yourself, what am I frustrated by? What have I watched other people complain about? What don't I want to do anymore? And what can I do with that idea? That's where real businesses come from. The next mistake far too many people make is getting tunnel vision once they have their idea. And only thinking about a single way to turn that idea into a business. Every idea you have can become just about anything. It could be a product of service. It could be small and local. It could be massive and international. That's up to you. It's up to how you execute. And really, it should beven by what you ultimately want out of it, why you're creating the business in the first place. Just think about a musician. If a musician gets tunnel vision, the only version of success they're going to chase is the idea of becoming an international recording artist. But if that same person took the idea in their passion, if they thought broadly about how they could turn that into a business and a life for themselves. Maybe they'd become a songwriter. Maybe they'd become a teacher of music. Maybe they would write jingles for the local businesses in their area. They could do anything. As long as they think about it in the right way, and that's what you need to do as well. Think about the life you want. Are you aiming for fame and fortune? Well, then yeah, you need to have a big idea. You're going to have to put in the hundred hour work weeks. But if what you want as a new cottage, if you want to be able to set your own hours, maybe you can do it smaller in a different way, figure out what it is you want to do and what you don't want to do. because if you don't, you might end up with a business, but you won't end up with a life you want, and that could be one of the biggest regrets of your life. Nobody is born an entrepreneur. It doesn't matter where you go to school. It doesn't matter how many books you read. It's one of those things you have to actually live to truly get good at. It's like being a comedian. You can do it in your bedroom while you like, but ultimately you got to get on stage, you're going to have to fail a number of times before you get any good at it. Same is true for any entrepreneur. The person you see now is a person that has been through some stuff. A person that learned how to pivot quickly because they were about to run out of money, a person that learned how to hire amazing talent because they made so many bad decisions early on. That's how you become an entrepreneur. You just do things, you fake it till you're actually good at it and eventually you look back and you can't believe how far you've come from that early version of yourself. So stop comparing yourself to Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. Stop thinking that you have to have this certain mentality or mindset. You're comparing yourself to someone else's end product, the end version of themselves. Yeah, there's some lessons to be learned from their stories, but ultimately you need to create your own. Just be okay with who you are. Know that we're all kind of making it up as we go along. And if you're willing to do that, you will eventuallyually get good at it. That's how it works. There's no shortcuts. You just gotta go do it. At the end of the day, everyone who owns and runs a business is just a regular person. They just had an idea. It might have been exciting. It might have been boring, and they did something with it. Along the way, they figured out what worked and what didn't work. They figured out how to become better at being an entrepreneur. And now they're living a life they truly dreamt of. You know, it's not always going to work out for everybody, but the first step to having it work out is actually doing something with it. It's getting away from the hesitation and just trying it out and learning as you go. And if you have an idea and you're struggling to talk about it in a coherent way, well, check out the link of the description because I made a course for this exact problem. There's one that I was having recently and I think it might help you as well. Once you're on your path, you're going to go through all the highs and lows. And I talked about that on this channel all the time, about what it's really like to be an entrepreneur. In fact, this video here was me sharing with my entire network, the setbacks and the lack of progress I was making. So if you're afraid of how people might see you or judge you, I highly recommend you watch this one next.