#BusinessSuccess #MentalHealthMatters #EnjoyTheJourney
Hey everyone! 💬 Let’s have an open conversation about something that’s been on my mind: Is business success really success if you’re not enjoying the ride? Sure, making money is great, but if you’re overwhelmed and stressed all the time, can we truly call it success? 🤔
Think about it: We all know those high-flyers like Richard Branson who seem to be laughing their way to the bank. 🤑 But honestly, how many of us can say we’re smiling through the challenges we face while building our businesses?
I don’t know about you, but I often struggle to keep a cheerful attitude. Some days, toxic emotions like frustration, anger, or self-doubt creep in. 😟 It can feel like an uphill battle. And it seems there’s not enough talk about emotional health in our entrepreneurial circles.
So, what do you all think? Here are a few things to ponder:
- Is it possible to achieve business success while maintaining a positive mindset? 🤷♂️
- How do you deal with the stress that comes with chasing your business goals? 😓
- Are there specific practices you follow to keep your spirits high? 🌟
I’d love to hear your experiences or any tips you might have on maintaining a positive emotional state while pursuing business success. Let’s share and learn from each other! 👇
Hey, I totally get where you’re coming from! It’s so easy to get caught up in the hustle and forget to enjoy the ride. I think a lot of us feel that pressure to grind non-stop, but at the end of the day, if we’re not happy, what’s the point? I try to remind myself to celebrate the small wins and take breaks when I can. It’s all about balance, right?
Would you rather cry in a Honda or cry in a Lambo
I would call that life success 🙂
Yes. Had a corporate job for a company everyone thought would be the dream job (I was an attorney for Google). Good money, prestige, amazing coworkers. I hated the work. My wife said I’d talk in my sleep saying “no, no, no!”
But now with my own business every day I wake up excited to go to work. I love my clients and my team. I have a nice little office with my name on the door. The money’s good and getting better, but doesn’t match the corporate job. And I’m ok with that.
Complete bullshit.
Come back when you’ve built sonething.
If you’re smiling? It was a fluke. Work harder.
Happiness, doing what you do is the key to the longevity of what you do!
The likelihood of success is far greater, if you love and like what you do!
I’m not saying every part of what you do to become successful is all 100% love, or like, but if you love or like 80-90+ % that in my mind is like having your cake, and eating it to!
All the best!
If you are happy your are already succesful. Everything extra is just cool
So here in the real world we don’t get to pay for things with smiles.
If you’re trying to say “be friendly with a smile on your face at all times” I agree. Making money is easily the most important thing when running a business.
Yeah it comes down to what you want and enjoy in life really. I don’t always have a smile on my face during the process, but as long as I am working towards something that will genuinely make me happy (a better life for me and my family) then I would consider that to be a success.
Life is all about perspective. One of my favorite stories is the one about the Mexican fisherman. If you’re not familiar with it, I invite you to search it up.
There are many ultra wealthy people in this world that do not feel successful, and suffer from mental health issues for the same reason.
At the end of the day, success should be those things that make you happy. YOU. No one else, nothing else. Not a title, job, material thing, but that continual state of happiness.
Just my two cents.
What if I’m only happy half the time?
I think the key to success is the ability to know when to grind it out when it isn’t fun. It isn’t always fun. It often sucks. There are good times and lean times, there’s work that I love and there’s awful, boring work that I just have to push through.
My dad was a small business owner, so I grew up with it. Things would be going amazing, then he’d lose a huge client and everything would be touch and go for a bit. Then he’d get clients to replace them and it would be crazy busy for a bit as the business adjusted. I see a lot of business owners who get used to smiling, and then can’t adapt or persevere when there isn’t as much to smile about.
Seriously, speaking from experience, open your own business. I am at my third lambo, big villa millions on the bank account, goth gf with big mama milkers, etc.. Everything is better when you are rich. This sub is a bot infested joke.
Love this perspective. I’ve seen so many entrepreneurs grind 24/7 to build something big, only to lose touch with what actually makes them happy. Success without fulfillment can feel really empty. Finding balance and knowing what ‘enough’ looks like is huge.
I grew up in the 80s. As Jane Fonda used to say, “No pain, no gain.” Smile through the pain!
The true reward is getting to even play the game where you get to 1) Execute on an idea that is interesting and you are passionate about and 2) reap any rewards for the potential success.
To me, just being here working towards my own dream means that I’ve already won, and the outcome is actually irrelevant.
Still beats being stuck in a 9-5 cubicle
there is no destination only a journey. that means finding enjoyment in the journey not waiting for some end goal like selling your company or being x network.
Here’s something that I think people get confused with.
You aren’t supposed to be happy all the time. Your job, business, isn’t supposed to be making you feel happy all day every day.
It’s supposed to make you feel satisfied.
All of life is problems. The key is to do something where you enjoy solving those problems every day.
It’s not going to make you feel happy, but it’s going to make you feel challenged, in a good way, and overcoming and solving those problems is going to feel satisfying and make you proud of yourself.
It’s not easy. It’s not fast. It challenging.
If you wake up everyday and you aren’t getting satisfaction from the problems that you face, then you know it’s time to switch to something else, something that offers a different set of challenges that you enjoy.
There is a happiness epidemic where everyone seems to be convinced that fucking smiling and walking around feeling elated all the time is the goal.
It’s not. Because it’s not possible to be happy every day all day.
It’s about being content with the challenges you face each day, and the skills that you use to solve those challenges.
success is personal. enjoy the journey, not just the destination.
Yes, I totally agree. And the reason why there’s joy through the process. taking your passion and making it a mission to completion. You need to know your why. You need to know what you want out of it. When you’re going to achieve it. How you’re going to get there.
With a positive outlook, when a client sees a smile, it’s infectious a downcast face will not survive the long-term success. But a true smile that’s genuine will overcome the negative impact. That leads to true success with a smile to the bank.
A smile is what you make of it in your heart.
I agree. I just left a sales job where the top guys were working nonstop, making 300-500k, but were absolutely miserable. I left one week ago and started my own company. I am much happier running my own ship, even though the money isn’t quite there yet.
I’d rather be happy AND grinding, not just grinding and miserable.