W14 Reflection: Entrepreneurial Journal Final Blog

If I could share one thing that I have learned from this course, it is to keep trying. I would not say the lesson is to never give up, because sometimes we have to give up ideas to eventually find the right one. Keep trying tells us to try new things, try new ways, and that we can eventually succeed. Building a business is a very difficult task, and building a successful one is even more difficult. If you keep trying then you will succeed. At times it will be hard to keep trying and it would be easier to just let go, but that is when the breakthrough will be just around the corner so keep trying. 

A bit of advice I would give to someone building their entrepreneurial journey is to believe in yourself. An idea is only as good as the person who came up with it thinks it is. If you have an idea, then run with it and always believe it is a good idea. If you do this then you will find other people also believing in your idea and this will lead to your success. I worked in sales for a few years and that is my experience in this. People would not buy from me if I did not believe. If you believe in yourself and in your idea then others will too.

A word of caution would be that people will try to tear you down. People envy others that have ideas before them. They will try to tell you your idea isn’t good simply because they didn’t think of it themselves. If you ignore these people and trust your instinct then you will grow the business how you want to. A business grows because people support it and buy its product, not because they don’t want the product. 

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