Confidence Building for New Women Entrepreneurs.

Yesterday, I delivered a workshop for 12 fabulous ladies. There was Harminder who's dream it was to set up a magazine for Sikh ladies and Kelly, a British Kickboxing Champion who was looking to start a school of Martial arts. How about Tina with her wonderful idea to provide creative landscapes and woodwork services to local communities or Samantha with her fabulous ethnic jewellery. I was motivated by the passion that these ladies have for their ideas.
My job was to help them to over come the fear of starting a business; to explain to them that there is nothing to fear if they do it right.
I told them that it is not how good you are it is how good you want to be. "If you really see yourself in that picture you will get there", I promised them....guaranteed.
I believe in having "The Slight Edge", in other words you will reach your goal by doing a very small action everyday towards it. Confusious said that to walk 1000 miles you need to start with just one small step........
Imagine if you wanted to lose weight, you could leave those potatoes off your plate. You may not notice the difference today and probably not tomorrow but in the future it will change your life.
The trouble is that these very small actions are very easy to do but they are very easy not to do.
So I told the ladies to do something everyday towards their goals, one small thing today, one small thing tomorrow, it may not make much of a difference today or the next day but compounded over a period of time it will bring them to their goal.
The one small thing they did yesterday was to attend my workshop what will they be doing today?

We need more encouragement not reminders of the failures.

“It is said that over 80% of small business start ups fail in the first year!”I am thoroughly fed up with everyone using this same line.It is said by whom?
For the life of me I have not found where these people get their information from. Is this supposed to encourage people to start businesses?
Don’t you feel sorry for the poor budding entrepreneur?
In America, most serious entrepreneurs have had one or two failed business in their past, they see them as steps in the right direction towards getting the big one.
Sadly, this entrepreneurial spirit is looked down upon in this country; we would see them as “too big a risk”, in reality, the experience that they’ll have gained will have taught them not to make the same mistakes again.
I would call them a “better bet”! I am a “glass half full character”; a believer in positive thinking and I say, “if you believe it will happen and if you can see yourself in that picture, then you will be successful”.
I have heard people say to me, “It didn’t work because I’m just unlucky!” I say there is no such thing as luck! A successful business person is someone who’ll go that bit further than others by doing the things that others don’t like to do and to keep doing it until it becomes second nature to them.
So if you want to sell those widgets get on that phone and “smile and dial”.