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I make it a mission to respond to all emails that I get. So don't hesitate. Make sure you reach out to me so you don't stay stuck with your business. Now, what I want to talk about today is being held back by other others. OK, so in front of me, I've got a. A word sheet and it says, are you being held held by others? Right, so it should say held back by others. OK, but what I want to talk about is misinformation, right? Now, when we start a business and when we become business owners, there's a lot of people that want to give you information. Right, there's a lot of people that want to give you information about what to do, what not to do, how to do it. And sometimes what happens is a lot of it is misinformation, right? The people that are giving you this information haven't got any credibility and they don't have an actual business and they aren't doing what you are doing. Right. And sometimes what this does is this holds us back because it limits us not just physically moving forward, but it holds us back mentally from making certain decisions to grow the business. Right, when you are in this type of industry, it's a very competitive industry, but it's also an industry full of opportunity. Right, every single year, the sports training industry gets bigger and bigger because more parents are looking into sports to get their child more motivated, to get their child more physically active, to get their child more confident, to get their child just doing something and away from the screen of a television or away from their games, right? Their console, their computer, their tablet, right? Parents are looking for sports as the solution to a lot of their child's I wouldn't say problems, but just to get them more active and engaged and doing something that gets them away from sitting down all day. OK, so this industry is going to continue to get bigger, right? Even though we are going to be heading into a recession, right, wherever you are in the world, we will be going into a recession. But even though we are going into one, there's still going to be multiple opportunities to grow in this industry because parents will continue to invest in their child and they will continue to look for ways to get their child active and just more confident and better. OK, now I want to share with you three things that you need to be you need to take into consideration when you're taking in information from others. Because sometimes as business owners, we love the strategies, we love the techniques, we love to consume. But sometimes that information that we're consuming holds us back from implementing and growing and moving forward. Right, so being held back by others will be your biggest challenge as a business owner. OK, because I know personally when I started my business, I had a lot of ideas, I had a lot of plans, I had I wanted to do so many things. But then all it took is one person to speak something negative and say, you know what, this isn't going to work, or there's already a lot of people doing this or or this or that. That in my head, I felt, you know what, OK, let me I'm not going to do it because it might not work. Right, but essentially, this is your business. You make the decisions. You want to do it, you do it. If you don't want to do it, you don't do it. OK, if you want to go quickly with your business, you go quick. If you want to take it slow and take baby steps, you take baby steps. Right, do not be held back from what other people are telling you. OK, because most of the time, ninety nine point nine percent of the time, what people tell you is misinformation. It's information that they have received. And they've passed on. OK, and most of the time, people aren't in your situation. They people aren't in your situation. They might have been in a similar situation and they might give you advice, which is great. But no one's going to be in the exact same situation as you. Right, so you've got to find ways and you've got to take mental steps to to think, do you know what? I've got to make my own decisions and I've got to take my own risks with my business. OK, so the first one is look for warning signs with people. OK, so when you're a business owner, again, you're going to get a lot of information thrown at you. Sometimes even the gurus that you're following online, they're giving you bad information. They sometimes, you know, you're going to find people online that are telling you to save money. You're going to tell you're going to find people that are telling you to spend money. You're going to find people that are telling you to use credit cards. You're going to find people that tell you not to use credit cards. Right, there's a lot of information there. So what I want you to do is look for warning signs. OK, what are people saying? What are people doing? OK, so if you come into contact with someone who's telling you not to start a business, right, think to yourself, right, why is that person telling me not to start a business? Is it because maybe they started a business and it didn't work? Is it because they wanted to start a business but they were too scared to start the business? Is it because they they themselves are getting misinformation and they don't they've never had a business. But, you know, they're consuming the news. They're consuming negativity and that negativity is then getting thrown out to you. Right, so look for warning signs with people. What people saying to you? What people doing? OK, and why are people reacting the way they are? OK, because normally that is what will limit you from not just business growth, but personal growth as well. OK, so look for warning signs. This is something I've become very conscious about, right? Before I would just stroll through life my day to day, just living in my own world. But then what I slowly start to realize is that if you live in your own world, you're not living in this world. OK, and in this world, unfortunately, there's a lot of negativity. There's a lot of people that want to to hurt you. OK, so we've got to be very aware of what the warning signs. What are people saying? What are people doing? How are people doing it? How are people saying it? OK, and the more aware you become, the better. OK, you can react and also the less you will be held back. OK, because if someone's giving you bad information, then you yourself, if you find, you know what, that's a warning sign. They're giving me bad information. Then they might not be a person that I need around in my ecosystem. So I want to distance them away and I just want to focus on myself. OK, so look for the warning signs with people. That's number one. Number two, evaluate the accuracy of the information people are giving you. So this touches a little bit on the first bit. But, you know, people are going to give you misinformation. Don't start a business. A business is too expensive. There's too many competitors in in the area. It's very risky to start a business. Ninety-five percent of businesses fail. And you're not experienced enough to work with clients. You don't have a degree in business. You've got no business experience. You've got you've got no university degree. You've got no coaching experience, right? There's so much information that people are going to be giving you, right, evaluate the accuracy on it. OK. And the only way you can evaluate the accuracy is doing your research on that person. Right. What if that person's telling me not to start a business? Why are they telling me that? And this goes back to the warning signs. OK. And normally. What people tell you is is is wrong. And most of the time, what people say is inaccurate. OK. Just because. What they say to you probably came from someone else, but that person changed that information when they gave it to that person. So it's like. It's like this whisper game, right? When you get in a circle and you start whispering, like the whisper starts from one person, it goes, they start whispering it to there's a name of it. But I can't remember at the moment. But you're in a circle and one person whispers something to the first person. That's first person whispers it to a second. And by the time it gets all the way back to the first person, it's it's completely different to what it originally was. OK. And that is why we've got we have to evaluate the accuracy of the information people are giving you. OK. If people are telling you the economy is bad, then evaluate it for yourself, right? Go outside, go into the real world and have a look to see if the economy is bad. Right. I get information all the time about we're going into a recession, the economy is bad, parents aren't spending money. But I work in this industry and I see that people are still spending money on on sports. They're still spending money on on soccer birthday parties. They're still, you know, they're still buying merchandise for their kids. They're still going to to soccer games like professional soccer matches. They're still spending lots and lots of money on soccer. So that means that, yes, OK, we are we are in a recession, but maybe parents are prioritising where they spend them their money. Maybe the money that they wanted to they were spending on something. They don't spend that now, but they just focus solely on one thing. OK. So evaluate the accuracy of the information that you're getting from people and decide for yourself whether it's accurate or inaccurate. Right. And the third one is decide where you want to go from here. Now, I make it my my mission, should we say, and I make it a task to analyse my day every single day. Right. It comes to the end of the day. I like to sit down, have a cup of tea next to me, and I like to make notes on how my day went. Did I reach my full potential that day? Did I waste time on these activities? Did I? Did I reach out to someone? You did I make new connections? Did I do something to help grow and expand my business? What did I do? So I just want to sit down and I sit down with a notepad and I'll make maybe five to six lines, just analysing how the day went. Right. What were the what the good parts of the day? What were days were parts of the day where I think, do you know what? I was I felt a little bit negative. I felt a little bit held back and I could have done this a little better. Right. So I constantly analyse everything I do. And that's not just and that's not because I am I am different or, you know, I'm overthink things. I like to see, do you know what? This is what happened because the way I see it is our day to day as business owners, it goes really fast. Right. The hours in the day, sometimes it feels like there's not enough hours in the day. So what I like to see is I like to sit down and say, right, OK, this is the time I woke up. This is why this did I exercise? No. Why did I not exercise because I didn't make an effort? And so I like to break down what I did, analyse it and see, right, what can I do better the next day to just fulfil my potential? OK, because we don't as humans, we only get one life. But you've only got one life and you've got to try and live it the fullest and the happiest you can. Right. And that means enjoying having a business, right? Enjoy the business side of having a business. Enjoy the coaching side of the business. But do things every single day that are going to go into make you a better business owner, don't waste time, don't overthink things. Right. And that's why I made this. I wanted to make this video because, you know, every single day and we're living in times now that if you go on to the on to news channels all throughout the world, right, there's a lot of negativity being being thrown at people, right? There's a lot of scare and there's a lot of frustration. There's a lot, you know, the cost of living is going up. People's bills are getting more expensive. People are losing their jobs. You know, it's it's a very tough time. But if we can focus on what we need to focus and not get distracted by our environment, then as business owners, we can grow and our business will excel and get to the next level. OK, so hopefully this video has helped. Again, if you want to reach out to me, please do so. Visit the Canon Lee link in the description. You can schedule a free 15 to 20 minute call with me or you can send me an email to make money coaching sports at gmail.com. Right. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel. 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