Stay motivated as a founder because entrepreneurs face so many challenges.
You can’t let the challenges of being an entrepreneur get you down. You have to stay motivated and positive at all times, even when things are tough.
As a founder, you have to stay focused on the end goal of your business and what it means for your future—and this will help keep your motivation strong and alive.
If you’re not excited about what you do, how can anyone else be? If no one believes in what you believe in enough to buy from you, then why should they?
Writing down your goals will help you keep track of them
Writing down your goals will help you keep track of them and remember what they are.
To write down your goals, pick up a pen and paper (or open up your computer), then write down each goal as if you have already achieved it. Imagine yourself achieving this goal in the most successful way possible—how does it feel? Write about that feeling as if it were real and happening right now.
Examples:
- I can’t wait to see how many customers we get at our launch party!
- I am so excited to see how much money we make next quarter!
Share your goals with colleagues, friends, and family
One of the most powerful motivations for any one of us is the desire to be seen as a success and to have others recognise our accomplishments. We all want to feel good about what we’ve done, and it’s easy to see why this would apply in a startup environment. Sharing your goals with colleagues, friends, or family can help you stay motivated because it gives you something tangible that your support group can hold you accountable for.
Of course, there’s always a risk that sharing your dreams with other people will backfire if they don’t believe in them—or worse yet, try to talk you out of pursuing them altogether! But if you’re confident about what makes sense for your business strategy and where its strengths lie (which will come from working hard on developing proper market research), then it shouldn’t be difficult to find someone who shares those same values. Having someone else around who understands where things are headed means that when times get tough or progress stalls out temporarily due to unforeseen challenges (and they will), there’ll always be someone available who knows exactly how much effort went into getting started at all—and why it’s worth continuing moving forward now despite whatever difficulties arise along the way towards achieving those initial goals!
Find some time for tasks you actually like doing.
One of the biggest problems with being an entrepreneur is that you never have enough time. There are so many things that need to get done and when you’re running a startup, it’s easy to feel like there’s never enough hours in the day.
However, as long as you have a sense of what makes your business work and what tasks are important, there should be some way to carve out time for yourself each week. Maybe it’s going for coffee with a friend once every two weeks or taking 30 minutes every Wednesday morning to journal about your goals for the next month. Once you’ve figured out how much head space you need per week (and trust us—it’ll take some trial and error), make sure that this time gets scheduled into your calendar!
Once we started making time for ourselves each week, we found our motivation starting to come back around again too!
Have fun and stick to your goals.
- Have fun and stick to your goals.
Startup founder are all about having the freedom to do what you want, when you want. But if you’re not careful, this will quickly lead to procrastination and letting down other people’s expectations of what an employee should be doing for their job. The best way to avoid this is by making sure that your work environment is a pleasant one! If possible, find a way to have fun while still being productive—and even if that isn’t possible at first (perhaps because there just aren’t enough hours in the day), try finding ways through which small amounts of leisure time can be drawn out until they become full-fledged vacations or breaks from work altogether. This will help keep things fresh so that whenever someone asks about how things are going for their startup founder friend who spends most of his days working on his project full time—and also has two kids at home whom he loves dearly but doesn’t see as often as he would like due primarily because there aren’t enough hours left after working all day long without fail every single day without fail!
