The Entrepreneur Way 1653: Expressing Yourself into the World Through Your Ideas with Dr Steve Taubman Founder and Owner of Powertrack Presentations
Dr Steve Taubman is a bestselling author and world class speaker who has dedicated his life to showing people how to thrive through their challenges. He's written extensively on the application of contemplative practices in stressful situations and has spoken worldwide on mindset mastery for goal-oriented and helping professionals.
“study your craft… There are two driving forces that drive entrepreneurs and they look the same from the outside but they are very different from the inside. And one of them is passion and one of them is obsession… Passion is an energy that will take an entrepreneur and put him or her into a highly resourceful state for long periods of time. And so early in our progress as entrepreneurs we are working with great passion. Sometimes what happens is we hit a wall, we may become upon something that we don’t how to do but we feel such dogged determination that we start applying all of our energy on that one thing and we do it with what looks like passion from the outside so we are still working day and night. But what it is flipped from passion into obsession now we feel this sense of doom and I’ve got to get this done and just this horrible feeling of obligation. And most entrepreneurs cross that line without realising it. Highly successful entrepreneurs will again be mindful, they recognise the moment that they cross the line from passion into obsession. If they find themselves becoming obsessive and there is a negative energy associated they notice it and spot it early and typically what that means to the entrepreneur is that there is something that he or she doesn’t know how to do or isn’t as skilful or masterful at as he or she thinks he or she is and rather than go out and ask for help, rather than take a … Rather than go online and learn something new they just keep beating their heads against the wall. This is the death of entrepreneurship and of having heart attacks and ulcers or end up running from their businesses as if it’s a burning building. You’ve got to be willing to recognise when the passion is starting to change into a negative obsessive energy. And if it is you need to realise that that’s assigned that you need help, that you need more information and you probably need some kind of mentoring or coaching. And if you would only take that as a signal and a sign and do the right thing rather than beat your head against the wall trying to do it all yourself your life would be infinitely easier and you’d properly get much more successful much more quickly”…[Listen for More]
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