Allon Raiz

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It's that time of year again. It's push time. A few months away from leave and many are already exhausted. These next two and a bit months are critical, so push, push, push. One day at a time.

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This rollercoaster we call entrepreneurship.

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Much of the entrepreneurial journey is taking big risks on others that you have entrusted, and believe will succeed. You simply need to believe in other people in your ecosystem. Who to believe in is the trick.

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The ability to keep quiet is a strategic asset.

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Many entrepreneurs will tell you that they are not good salespeople. They don't realise that they must be great salespeople by definition, because they have already sold that story (that they are bad salespeople), that version of reality, to themselves. And they bought it.

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If you are not deliberately building your network, you are not deliberately building your business.

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Every business has its issues. Even advertising companies battle to advertise themselves, sales training firms battle to sell, accounting firms battle with their own books & so on. Business is complex & run by fallible, unpredictable human beings, which ensures it's always hard.

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I have come to realise that entrepreneurs are way tougher than they think they are in their moment of crisis. They can endure huge amounts of mental pain for long periods of time. Slowly, they untangle the knot. Eventually they rebound.

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There are only two types of businesses. Those that are aligning to the shifting market and those that are becoming insignificant.

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To choose entrepreneurship as a way of life is to choose rejection as a way of life.

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August is one of those pivotal months. It either signals you to wake up and catch up on all the outstanding strategic objectives you set at the beginning of the year, or you feel overwhelmed by what you have not achieved and promise to do better next year. Decide which route.

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If you battle to make tough decisions and kick the can forward, the economics in your business will eventually always land up forcing you to make even tougher decisions, often with even higher emotional and personal costs. Make tough decisions as early as possible.

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When you have moved through the storm and the storm is behind you now, it still produces a wind. The wind that previously pushed you backward now propels you forward.

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The more value you create for a client the more valuable your business becomes.

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Nothing tests your limits like entrepreneurship.

When you thought you were at rock bottom, you later realise that was actually the 5th floor, and you still had way more to go to hit rock bottom. And when you got there again, you realise, you were actually on the 3rd floor.

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So much of becoming successful as an entrepreneur is doing the unexciting, grindy stuff, consistently.

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Entrepreneurship is a humbling experience. Every time you might think you have risen above the level where you are now home dry, you are given a wakeup slap by the journey.

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The tough part of being an entrepreneur is managing the relentless context change mainly brought about by illogical and short sighted decisions made by stakeholders in the ecosystem. One of those stakeholders making those decisions might be yourself.

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Met with an entrepreneur last night who grew up extremely poor. He said "I am lucky as an entrepreneur because I know HOW to suffer." I found that quite profound.