Enjoy Your Business Journey To Success

By Cheval John

You have ventured out on a new endeavor.

Whether it is launching a business or starting a podcast, etc., you want your endeavors to be a huge success.

You look at your competition and see that they are doing great.

You might even see that your competition is amassing a quick following within weeks and are profitable in the process.

Your first thought is “Why They Are More Successful Than Me?”

From that thought, you start comparing your endeavors to theirs.

You will be thinking along the way that you are not good enough to succeed.

When you fall for the comparison trap, you have already failed.

You have diluted your vision of what you want your business or podcast to be and are trying to copy your competition.

When that happens, you are only following the competition and not creating your unique voice for your business.

In addition, you are failing to provide value that would benefit the people who need it.

What you should do is not focus too much on the competition because you will end up creating their vision of your business and not yours.

Also, you should check out this awesome blog post, “How To Understand Your Competitors Without Falling Into The Jealousy Trap,” by Maria Ross, founder of Red Slice.

She explain the post in depth on my podcast, “What’s The Word?” last night about how she came up with the idea of the post and also falling for the comparison trap.

It is really valid because many of us always compare ourselves to other people who are seemingly more successful than us.

I have struggled with the comparison trap a lot of times.

Even though I have achieved a whole lot of goals like having my own podcast, running my own online media company, writing two books, spending an extended period of time in Mexico and Chile, or obtaining two college degrees, I still find myself at times comparing myself to others.

We have to remember that they will always be someone better than you in a skill like business, etc.

Also, you have to understand that they had to work extremely hard to earn their way to success.

That is really not a bad thing.

It is really awesome because you can always learn from them and see what they did to achieve their success.

I could right now compare myself to Maria because she is experiencing a whole lot of success as an entrepreneur while I am aiming to be successful as an entrepreneur.

I choose not to because I understand the journey that she has experienced to be where she is at today with her business.

So if you see a someone (example celebrities, etc.) who are seemingly achieving success very quickly in their new business or podcast ventures, just remember that they had to put in years of hard work and dedication to be where they are at and establishing their audience.

That alone should make you appreciate their journey and enjoy your own business or podcasting journey to success.

Like the old saying goes, “Rome Was Not Built In A Day.”