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If you have any tips for early entrepreneurs.

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Yeah.

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Uh, oh God, there's like so many, like there's, uh, so many, a book can be written.

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I'm sure there are plenty of books about this, but I would say the number one thing is that

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understand you are in this for the long haul, right?

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And that may be a cliche answer, but sometimes the cliches are true is don't think about,

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I've had problems with this myself, you know, obviously I've learned from it, but it's like,

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don't think of it as, okay, in one year, I'm going to hit all of my goals, right?

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You should really think about, okay, what am I going to be able to sustain this 10 years from

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now? Do I want to sustain this 10 years from now? Do I want to be doing this 10 years from now?

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If your answer is no, or you feel hesitant to even answer that question, then I'm not saying

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entrepreneurship may not be for you, but that particular business may not be for you, right?

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So I remember when I started early in my entrepreneurial journey, you know, before I

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became a personal trainer, coach, started that business, you know, that's when I kind of got

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bit by the entrepreneur bug. And I saw everything I saw, Oh, make money from Amazon FBA, you know,

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make money from, you know, uh, what's the, what's the word like transcribing, you know, make money

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from that, you know, do Shopify, do real estate, like do all these things. And I was spreading

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myself so thin because all I wanted was entrepreneurship, money, freedom, right? But

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I was getting into things that I didn't necessarily love, you know, it seemed cool at the time, but it's

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like, it's it fizzled for a little bit. So what I would say mainly is do what you love, obviously,

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because that is to sustain you for the long haul. But also just because you're not getting the

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results you want immediately doesn't mean you failed. Doesn't mean that entrepreneurship isn't

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meant for you. It just means that it's going to take longer than you anticipated, right? Of course,

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there are those success stories that people make, you know, six figures in a year that does happen,

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but at the same time, that doesn't happen for every entrepreneur. But if you can start

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and stay persistent and endure the loneliness of entrepreneurship, because that that does happen,

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the hardship, the celebrity beliefs that you have about yourself, oh, am I good at this? Should I

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even be doing this? If you can endure, sustain, overcome those obstacles, stay in it for the

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long haul because you will thank yourself later. Eventually, when you are on this mountaintop,

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you're going to look back at the road you traveled, at the journey you kind of went through.

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You're not only going to thank yourself, you're going to be grateful for it. You're going to be

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much smarter because one thing I've understood as an entrepreneur is every step I take, when I look

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back, I learn something from it and I make sure everything that happens in my life, not just

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entrepreneurship, I try to find the blessing in it. I try to find the learning lesson in it

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because that's just how I program and rewire my brain. If I can look for something positive,

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if I can look for something that I can grow from, that's only going to help me in personal life or

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entrepreneurship. That is kind of a long way to answer the question, but to boil it down,

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to put it in a summary, in a nutshell, is just keep going. It's a marathon, not a sprint.