For many entrepreneurs there are moments of success and glory and many more moments of hard tasks, learning curves and the like.
To minimize the general stumbling blocks that all entrepreneurs find themselves coming into contact with, you need to know what they are.
Then you need to know how to circumvent them.
Here is what I call the first major stumbling block: "Being Teachable" To many this may sound very obvious.
However, obvious or not.
If you don't learn when you are teachable and when you are not.
You will unwittingly fall prey to this very subtle, yet very powerful brick wall.
What is "being teachable?" Do you consider yourself teachable? Whether you answer yes or no to this question is not important.
What is important is discovering whether you truly are teachable, right now, at this present moment, or not.
Ask yourself...
Do you readily learn from others and change how you do things when you see and learn quicker and more profitable ways of doing things? Or...
do you listen to people teach their proven business models only to think or express your opinion? This usually sounds something like this: "I see your point, however, I disagree with you.
" Now that seems like a harmless thought, doesn't it? Well, let's look again.
To be 'teachable' means to become childlike.
When a young child learns you can see their full focus and attention on something.
You can see them mulling it over in their minds.
And then you see their eyes lights up as a moment of recognition hits them.
They suddenly realize they understand something new.
In many Internet Marketing forums I see a lot of entrepreneurs, both newbie and experienced walking past the "being teachable" principle.
They are hitting this stumbling block head on.
Although they think they are just giving their opinion.
It usually comes from not "learning" what is being taught and then following that learning with immediate action.
Opinions don't count in the entrepreneurial world.
What counts is learning a new marketing technique for example.
Then following up that learning with immediate action by implementing this new technique into your online business.
Then after taking action, you watch and measure the results.
If the marketing technique you just learned and used improves your profits, you might have a winner to add to your growing business.
If, however, you simply have an opinion...
that is thoughts about whether this new marketing technique will work or not, without taking action and using it in your business.
Well then you have walked full force into the 'being teachable' stumbling block.
And you will continue to do so, until you change your methods.
You must focus on becoming teachable.
Make yourself a blank slate it you will.
Then turn each learning opportunity into action.
Then measure the results.
Did it add to your bottom line? If it did, was the time spent doing it worth your time? Once you answer these simple questions you are on the road to remaining teachable during your entrepreneurial career.
The "being teachable" path leads to higher profits, less stress and more free time.
The "opinion" path simply leads in a circle.
One opinion after another, round and round you go.
The choice is yours to make today.