"How's it going?" I asked the clerk in the new bookstore. "Well you
know," she replied "it takes a long time to build a business." I caught
myself just before I muttered in agreement and instead said, "Does
it?". You see, the clerk is simply repeating a commonly held belief,
a global belief that it takes a long time to build a business. This
is not a fact just simply a belief and limiting one at that. Unfortunately,
it is held by enough people that would begin to believe it's a fact.
We are surrounded by limiting global beliefs. Throughout history,
people have been held back by these beliefs. The world is flat, man
cannot run a four-minute mile, man was not meant to fly and on and
on until someone came along and disproved them. There is a commonly
held belief that 80% of new businesses fail in their first five years.
This
is simply not true, this particular inaccuracy is a distorted version
for fact from the Small Business Administration, that said that of
the business that fail, 80% do so in the first 5 years. That's a very
different statistic. I'll bet these limiting global beliefs hold you
back. Don't be the clerk in the bookstore and automatically assume
that it will take a long time to succeed. By making this incorrect
assumption is hindering their chance for immediate success until the
appropriate amount of time passes.
It
has been said that if you expect the best you'll very often receive
it. Expect to succeed, expect everything to go smoothly and do everything
you can to assure it does. Just because someone or some group of people
believe something will be difficult, or take a long time, does not
make it so. Don't let their walls fence you in. Create your own beliefs,
ones that will support you and increase your chances for success.
By the way, many businesses have been successful from the very first
day. Business that one-day opened to the public and never looked back.
