Get my free New Biz Jumpstart Kit!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nSurprise #3: Your hyper-awareness coupled with relentless execution always led to your next milestone.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The third surprise for me as an introverted entrepreneur was that my hyper-awareness coupled with my relentless execution always led to my next milestone. Let me explain. If you’re an introvert, you’re probably super aware of the sorts of things that happen around you, whether it’s the little things that change around you or you recognizing whether or not you’re in flow or being productive. You’re highly attuned to these sorts of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And when I quickly realized in my entrepreneurial journey was that it was this hyper-awareness that allowed me to then focus intensely on any particular task for an extended period of time. One of the things that a lot of entrepreneurs struggle with is focus, but what I realized as an introvert was that because I didn’t have to always talk to another person about an idea I had and I could just focus on the actual execution itself, it allowed me to dial in and not only produce a high quantity of work, but a couple of that quantity of work with a high quality of work. Because I was so aware of everything that was going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And it was through coupling this hyper-awareness with this relentless execution that then allowed us to fight another day, so to speak and startup talk. So in other words, whenever we would hit a big milestone for our team, we would always be thinking about the next milestone. And as a result, we would create this feedback loop, which would then allow us to scale our business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then as we scaled our business, we saw greater successes with our customers. As we saw more customers, we then saw our revenues grow. And as our revenues grow, we were able to provide a better customer experience, and so on. Reaching each success of milestone gave us greater control over our so called destiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It made us feel like we had some semblance of control over the chaos that often exists in startups. This is an area that I think introverted entrepreneurs particularly excel in. We can often just carve out an entire day, building a new system or a process that can then be used consistently for the business, because we can stay focused for such a long period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, when I started my YouTube channel, I didn’t want to set an arbitrary subscriber goal. So instead I focused on what I could actually do in terms of the work itself. And so I set my goal to be 25 videos by the end of the year. And by the time this article is released, I’ve already passed that mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You don’t have to be pitching your company every single day in order to be an entrepreneur. All you need to do is show up every day to the work that you’re committing to and continue to build the idea, that you have in mind to provide value for your customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Big takeaways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Two big takeaways from today’s article. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Make sure that your voice stands for something. I’m speaking about this from the lens of an introverted entrepreneur, but honestly, it can apply to anybody. And what I mean by that is make sure that you lean in when you feel compelled to say something, but at the same time, don’t feel forced or obligated to say something in every single meeting. Be selective as to when you decide to chime in.<\/li>
- If you can execute, then you can be an entrepreneur. It doesn’t matter if you’re an introvert or an extrovert. It just matters that you’re committing every single day to the work and actually doing the work. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
When we were first starting out, our content marketing efforts are blank gotten zero page views. Today, it gets several million page views every single month, but it didn’t happen in a day. It was a marathon. Not a sprint. We had to commit to building out processes, staffing team members and releasing content every single day for our readers in order to build up that following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Remember as an introverted entrepreneur hyper-awareness plus relentless execution equals your next milestone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you found this article helpful, be sure to check out my YouTube channel<\/a> to get new videos every single week I’ll help take you from zero to self-starter as you grow your business, get more customers, and hone your business acumen. Also, feel free to share this with anybody that you think might benefit from learning about these three things that surprised me as an introverted entrepreneur. <\/p>\n\n\n\nIn the next article, we’re going to go over how to onboard your customers effectively, five simple steps for beginners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n