How do you keep your Spirits Up as an Entrepreneur?

Ryan O'Bleness

The world of entrepreneurship offers a lot of highs and a lot of lows. Most startups fail, and the road to success is a long, and often lonely endeavor. 

As an entrepreneur, when things aren't going well, how do you keep your spirits up? What do you do to boost morale for you and your team? How much of a role does passion play into your drive to start or maintain a successful business? 

Let us know. 

Steffi Dsouza

Entrepreneurial spirit is a mindset. It’s an attitude and approach to thinking that actively seeks out change, rather than waiting to adapt to change. It’s a mindset that embraces critical questioning, innovation, service and continuous improvement.

It’s important to maintain an entrepreneurial spirit because “any business’s success depends on it.” “Over the last ten years we’ve all seen how the notion of being ‘too big to fail’ is a complete folly.

Ryan O'Bleness

Thank you, @Steffi Dsouza! Attitude and mindset, and the willingness to work untraditional hours and pour everything you have into your endeavor, is truly key for launching and running a successful business. 

Levi Leyba, MBA

For one, consider failures as learning lessons.  We all fail.  And if we don't fail enough, that means we're not growing as an individual.  For two, inspiration and keeping the mindset, for me personally, comes from listening to other entrepreneurial podcasts.  Three, I like to surround myself with other entrepreneurs, sort of like a mastermind group, where we can answer each other's questions and pump one another up when we run across learning lessons.

Ryan O'Bleness

I think the failure aspect is an underrated point, @Levi Leyba, MBA. It's so easy to feel defeated when you fail or something doesn't go your way. It makes quitting seem like an easy thing to do. But even the most successful entrepreneurs have failed at some point. A big part of entrepreneurship, as you point out, is to learn from your mistakes and from those around you to perfect your venture. Perseverance is key. 

Shohrat Shankar

I read book to motivate myself!
The books that I like very much are
1) The Secret letters of monk who sold his Ferrari - Robin Sharma
2) The power of positive thinking! - Norman Peale
3) Magic - Ronda Byrne

Andre Brown

I use the power of my why to help motivate myself during hard times. I also like to read books that focus on success so I know what's possible if you never give up.

denise hilton

It's a common trait of successful entrepreneur, to stay consistent and motivated. It's the most basic thing and you can't be successful without it.