How To Know If You’re Ready To Start A Business

Hi, folks. How are you today? Thank you so much for joining my live stream. My name is Nick the poet, and I'm a creative and business coach here at Cadre. And so you've probably seen some of my recent live streams about spirituality, about meditation, about wellness, about sobriety, about mental health, recovery. And these are huge, huge elements of my life, really, that I consider to be the most important. But I'm also, you know, a working professional and I have recently started a new business.

And so I wanted to share, you know, some of what I'm learning. And hopefully, you know, some of these tips and tricks can help you if you're thinking about starting a business or you see being an entrepreneur as, you know, part of your growth as a human, or just you want to be more of a leader within your business. And so, you know, the first thing tip is I'm going to take the position that it is good to keep your day job while you build your business. And I think there's a lot of different schools of thought here.

And in your particular situation, it might be good for you to just, you know, start that business and go all in on it, because that is the situation that works best for you. But I'm going to take the tact in this live stream to recommend continuing keeping your day job while building your business. And for me, it's been really important to clearly communicate with my day job about what I'm doing and what I'm trying to build and working with them in that realm. Now, that might not be the way you go.

You may just do your job and then in your spare time, you know, work on building that business. But I have found, you know, for me to make sure that I have the stability of that day job and then allow me to pursue, you know, the passions of creating this creative consulting firm, which I've started. And so that's one thing, you know, keep that day job, and another one is to focus on building systems. And now I'm a big fan of the traction system by Gino Wickman, which utilizes this thing called a weekly l ten meeting and creates smart goals and makes sure that we're utilizing our core values.

And so I found that to be extremely beneficial. And also, you know, using tools like slack and airtable and, you know, communication systems like this have helped me a lot. And also, you know, selecting mentors. And these mentors could be, you know, a book, it could be, you know, someone online. And it's, I think it's really helpful to have mentors that, you know, as well that you can talk with. For years I've been saying that my social media mentor is Gary V. And he's helped me so much, you know, but I've never met him.

I've been to the VCon conference and I feel like I know him, but that's just because, you know, he puts out great content, you know, that I'm then able to practice and utilize. So I think, you know, finding mentors is something, you know, really important. And I think too, you know, tying in a lot of the stuff that I've talked about before with spirituality, with, you know, sobriety, mental health. Like I have to make sure that I'm putting that stuff first and that I'm really taking care of myself because if I'm not taking care of myself, you know, I'm not going to be able to do well in business.

And so making sure that I'm maintaining that self care and sometimes it might tip a little bit out of balance, you know, and that's okay as long as I stay connected with my community there and with what I need to do. And I think a big thing is just, you know, asking for help both within that, you know, sobriety and the mental health recovery. But also within business, you know, ask for is, you know, put on social media. Is there anyone who would mentor me? I've started a new business or, you know, I've started, you know, businesses before as well.

I had a sober cab company in college. I had a tennis racket string in business when I was twelve. You know, I've always had that entrepreneurial mindset, but I've had to get over some of the fears and also some of the fears of failure and some of that unworthiness of like, I've done all these things and none of them have made me wildly, financially successful to this point. So am I a failure? You know, am I worthy of this? You know, these are the things that come up on the journey and that I'm going through on a daily basis, have had a really busy and exciting day to day, haven't had a lot of time to even think and just, you know, trying to do the next right thing.

And so I just encourage you that if you are, you know, thinking about starting a business to, you know, give it a try and giving it a try and, and going all in on it could look like a lot of different things. It could be actually filing an llc, it could be making a website, it could be, you know, putting out content, it could be building a course. It could be so many different things in this modern digital age, but I just encourage you to not do it alone because we're so much stronger together. And that if you have that desire that keeps on coming up, that you probably just to start a business or to, you know, start a mission or start a nonprofit, whatever it may be, to go ahead and, you know, give that a try.

And so, yeah, I wish you the best in that. And I. The end of all my live streams, I've been including my email address, which is Nhanson, that's Hanson with an enre IO. If this has moved you in any way, I'd love for you to reach out to me and. And let me know. And I just wanted to pull up the live schedule for the rest of the week. Give me 2 seconds. Okay, shoot. I can't bring it up right now because I'm within the app, but please check out our other amazing presenters who are going live every day of the week.

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