Topic: Ideas without action: An overview of a successful entrepreneur and a dreamer. (Read 597 times)

I would say that taking a step forward is still better than not doing at all. You need to find that right balance where you are doing something but you are not reckless as well. Sure, I agree that you shouldn't just jump into it, that doesn't really happen that way, and it should be something that would make more sense, but I would still advice you to end up with something that would make more sense in another regard. I get that it may not be all that nice and so forth but at the end of the day if you could end up with a different type of result, then we could end up with something that would make more sense.

I think the good thing regarding this would be a good idea to just do things and then find what's wrong and fix them afterwards. It would make you richer that way because you would be at least doing something instead of just thinking about it. I like to move slowly during those times, if you move slow, you are still moving at least, but do it slowly so you are not reckless.

Instead of the term immediate, I'll go for initial. Immediate action may lead to reckless decisions and actions thay may navigate to negative outcomes. While I agree with you that ideas will only remain as ideas without any action being taken, it is still best to be smart about it. Hence, initial action is preferable. Initial action ensures that something is being done with the idea but not everything at once. It may seem like there is no significant difference but trust me there is, and sometimes that difference can lead to either making or breaking someone's dream. It's good to take action but being smart about it is still vital.

Everything must be planned. If you try something without a plan, you will not only try but also fail. Social media is full of people constantly telling us that we need to do something, that we need to take steps without fear. They all survive with the income they receive from advertisements and I think they are extremely far from quality. Social media is full of people who present someone else's wrong idea as their own and as if that idea is correct.

Make a plan and consider all possibilities. Leave a small risk and make your attempt. Stay away from people who give you empty encouragement by saying, “Yes, you can do it.” Make your own plan.

Yeah, you are right, and that's what anyone who's chasing after success should know: success doesn't come without failure, because that's what can make the person have more experience and learn from what caused their failure. There's a saying that for every failure one encounters, they always have a clue of what to do next to avoid the same error that caused them to fail the first time. Although some people can get lucky that they try something and it works very well for them, along the way, they might still experience some challenges that could almost shoot them down, but with determination and the hard work to strive for success, they will not give up. Just like one of my friends who is in the same line of business as mine, his shop caught fire and destroyed about 90% of his goods, which are worth millions in my local currency. That incident almost killed the man, but he just accepted the faith and got some loans to start afresh.

Nobody is perfect, so trying is better than being afraid. Have hope and believe in yourself that you can bring the positive in whatever you are planning to do. The majority of people will be afraid to do it but if they tell people about it, they may go behind his back and start the business they plan to. That is how a lot of people become successful in life, they joined head together one person may be afraid to start but the other one may have strong mind to started everything even if it will end up being lose they don't care and that is some people pass test in life because life is full of lessons. Life is about risk take it and see the outcome of it, it will still be better than think it on mind.

Because they can't do it alone, all businesses have a partner, but they still believe in one another and work together because two heads are better than one because one may have an idea and one may have a strategy to put things right.

Op, you have hit on several significant points but I have to comment on the point of not taking action, This has killed or buried a lot of good ideas and dreams today,  Getting an Idea is one thing but swinging into action immediately is one beautiful thing and acts as a catalyst to helping you reach your success. Ideas can become reality when immediate actions are followed up with. We must learn to back our ideas with immediate action.

Trust me, you're not the only one who thinks of it like that. I'm sure a lot of us understand just how important having connections can be in ensuring success, especially those who have experienced working with other people from various career roles and paths. Primarily, I used to think there was no point in opening my circle to other people, specifically to those who are outside the industry I am a part of or focusing on. However, eventually, I learned that every industry and role are connected in some way and there are various circumstances wherein a task or a project would've been easier if there was a person we could ask for help or advice from who is knowledgeable on a department that is foreign to us.

Building connections or our network may seem pointless at the start, but trust me it will be something that everyone of us will need in the long run.

Was that laziness? In our busy modern economy, it's an interesting flaw to study. Laziness, in its purest form, demands nothing, requires nothing, and yields nothing, doesn’t it? This emptiness, this non-action, makes it easy and dangerous. Can doing nothing be easy?

Laziness is more than inaction in our fast-paced economy, where everyone contributes to productivity and progress. Disengagement from society's progress is it. Greed, however, motivates, inspires, and increases economic activity through self-interest. Does the greedy contribute something admirable, or are we just respecting their results?

While seemingly opposed, laziness and greed provide intriguing issues in human psychology and economic functionality. Both problems affect our economic structures differently, right?

Maybe it's just me, but I believe that if you want success, you need to have network before anything else. Anyone who has a huge network would have a better chance to handle it, and anyone who has a network that owes you a favor then would do a lot better as well. Just get a bigger amount of connections by helping people who need less help then you.

Some billion dollar guy would not need anything from you normally, but if you do help them, they will be a lot more helpful to you in the future. I am not saying finding those are easy, but always look for the people you can connect with. I used to go to start up talks where rich startup founders talked, while everyone was talking to those people and telling their ideas to get funded, you know what I did? I said thanks for coming in, and went straight to the guy who organizes these things and talked with him, why? Because I could help him, and make him owe me a favor. Find your level, and connect.

This happens because being lazy is easier, in fact of all the human flaws that exist laziness is probably the easiest in which a person can fall, and this is because literally in order to be lazy you need to do nothing, when you think about other character flaws like extreme greediness, at least the greedy person needs to do something in order to achieve their dreams of riches, and many people will admire them because of the results they achieved, so at least there is something to admire from those people, but when it comes to laziness I do not see any positive point you could find that results from that flaw.

Procastination is a great thorn in the flesh of success and achievement and one funny thing about procastination is your ability curtail its existence in you because at a time everyone has an iota of procastination in them. The best is to always try, even if you fail, you should continue to try and try the more


Could this be the origin of do your own research. Because if a financial advisor gave him an advice not to buy bitcoin and the advisor was paid for giving a rubbish advice. The regret would be much, that is the reason why in this industry you should learn to make your independent decisions.

Yes, it is true that it is not easy to achieve success because this is not a small thing for people, to achieve success there must be failures or falling phases that are clear and real and will certainly happen to people who struggle in the process of achieving success. success requires struggle because we ourselves will feel that not everyone will be successful but what's wrong with struggling or trying.

Find and learn the principles that must be learned and applied to ourselves so that we have the drive to always be enthusiastic, there are family and close relatives who will certainly support, but there must also be people who want to drop and this is one that we have to face will we be able to face conditions like this, and obviously it's not easy. But as much as possible never give up and just prove that we can achieve that success. The point is that it is not easy to achieve it but again nothing is impossible and if you are serious then there will be no process that betrays the results. And well don't just talk but don't take any action at all, it's just like nonsense.

In this day and age, to be a successful businessperson, you need to be prepared for all the circumstances you will face and be patient in all aspects of your life. You will have all the patience you need to succeed. Success is hard earned; it's not easy to get, that's the truth.

It's hard for someone who just daydreams but doesn't do anything to achieve what they want in life, so it's said that if you think big and go get it whatever it takes, don't do your best.

I think many of us are procrastinators. We've got a bunch of time to watch nonsense content on the internet and it's just all about entertainment and having fun. But when we put time into what we should be dedicated to which could be a life-changing career or opportunity for that skill we're mastering, we've got not that much plenty of time to spend. We've got plenty of dreams but we don't start it out when it's necessary and we're doing it when we think that we're failing in other things that we do. So we jump to the conclusion that we should start this and that for our own benefit. Despite that, we're still procrastinating at some point in our lives when we need to do so. That's why many are looking for motivations just for them to initiate.

Individuals who mock someone's failures can also be categorized as idea killers. These are the people who dislike new ideas and prefer to stay within their comfort zones. This can be extremely detrimental to the mental well-being of creative individuals, causing them to refrain from trying anything new because their ideas are met with ridicule.

It's advisable to distance oneself from friendships or environments of this nature. Or if they happen to be family members, consider working in a different city or pursuing your ideas independently, free from the influence of these "Idea killers."

Many people only dare to dream but don't know how to proceed, when they try several times to make that dream come true and fail then they stop, while successful people when they encounter failure will continue to move forward until they fail countless times and finally succeed.

I think we can find out how we face existing challenges and if we can overcome them calmly then we have succeeded in fighting the fears that exist within us. In achieving our dreams, of course we have to go through various challenges to be able to achieve these dreams. Without going through various processes, we will not be able to achieve what we have dreamed of. From every process we have gone through, we will certainly gain learning and experience so that we are stronger in facing it various kinds of challenges that exist.

You are right, having a good mindset will certainly make it easier for us to face existing challenges because without this we certainly don't believe in ourselves so we give up on the existing process and we can't achieve what we have dreamed of.

Well, that's up to us too, but considering the uncertainty in the world market, what is certain is that the past is not always the main patron that is an indicator of the future. The question is, are we ready to take this leaflet about Bitcoin investment and trading now?


I think this has been translated from the OP to say There are two ways to make this happen namely buy them with the hope of selling them at a profit, or continue speculating on their value without owning them through spread betting or trading.

Then I presume am not the only one on this thought of procrastination because almost all the time, when I want to do something good this particular thought just keeps running through my mind and it's the funny thing is that once you have this thought it's really hard to get it off and before you know you end up not achieving anything. Most people that often practice this are sometimes referred to as lazy but I think it has nothing to do one's laziness but it's actually the inability for you to make a concrete decision and stand on it because if you have strong principle to executing your plans then this act of procrastination will be far from you.

How can you even tell if that fear has been overcome. You see, fear is always around us, there's always an obstacle in reaching our dream, nothing such as smooth journey even after you overcome one obstacle as there is always one after another. What people obtain is experience to move forward and help us face every fear we might encounter.

Correct mindset will be the one to help us to face every obstacle, even if you fail, charge it to your experience and move forward, learn from those mistakes. Whatever happens, the journey to your dream will never stop as we are the one who draw our own finish line.

same here, sometimes that also happened to me, but we as an adult should start learning doing something without care about our own mood because thats just how world works. but its definitely harder to be done than said.
i've dreamt of learning so many skills so that i could start my own startup but the thoughts of failing and getting into debt already in my mind in which makes me further procrastinate.
I guess sometimes, enjoying life is good but we should know the consequence that if we too much enjoying life we would become skilless human which isn't needed by the modern world.
its all about forcing ourselves to be productive.

Do not be afraid of failure it is never permanent success in human life does not come overnight success in life after many failures. In this case failure to success quotes make our life easier many businessmen scientists and great men in the world have failed miserably before succeeding in life. Nevertheless they have gone on to success and achieved success in their areas of expertise. Therefore success in life should be the only goal to achieve success through hard work with patience even if failures occur many times in life.

Yes but at most times, it is experienced in the beginning. Actually, once we overcome it and we are already doing the thing that we are planning, things can go smoothly. Much more if you prepare and improve your performances. Only a few issues are only going to be experienced then. They say that failure is not real and it was only created in our mind. It sucks when we feel it because it prevents us from doing the thing that we truly love.

A mistake is normal and not necessarily mean as a failure so we should learn to try again. There are even people who fail for real but again, they didn't quit easily but they try again and learn from the experiences that they get.

When you have a good plan and you think it is profitable – then pull the trigger firmly. You don't have to regret failing once you try - but regret it when you never try because you always listened to many advisors. In fact - not many people care about what you're going through, they're just there to find out what your problem is.

A US citizen regretted his decision to never buy 150,000 bitcoins at $0.006 per coin in 2010 because he listened to financial experts or advisors when wanting to build an exchange. But a few years later - the price of bitcoin reached an unpredicted peak and he now admits he failed to take action when he had the chance. The conclusion is the same - don't delay when you have the opportunity, but don't be so greedy that you forget to consider the risks.

because, "someone who can only plan will be defeated by someone who dares to take action and take real action"
And if you are still affected by what they said to you in the form of abuse and insults directed at you, then your mental quality must be questioned again. Let them say what they say and the funny thing is they always buy tickets to watch a match. So remain a player in this life.


Behind every obstacle there is a hope, but we must remember that the task we have to do is to bravely face all the obstacles that exist without having to reduce the high hope. keep trying because your future is your responsibility and if you want to find success in the future then you have to be willing to practice and persevere.

So they have to pick one over the other which is nothing but family. Maybe they didn't run in the path they wanted but at least it is happening for a good cause which is family now with the evolution of technology the distance between financial literacy and ways of making money reduced a lot so one can work hard and save money quicker than before which they can be used to start their business or whatever they dreamt of while ensuring the comfort of family while pursuing that.

Fear of the unknown is the worst thing that one should put in mind in whatever he is doing, because this will deprive you from talking a bold step into investing and it will hinder you from growing. In business fear of being a failure is good and bad. If you have not started the business and you have this fear that the business will fail, it is an opportunity to you to kill that fear by being careful in your decisions and this will also make you to acquire knowledge on the threats that your business will face so that you can be prepared for them. You might also be able to have a strategy on how you will over come those threats.
On the other hand, when you don't see the fear of your business failing as a challenge to take proper precautions, fear will make you never try to take risk on investing and it will discourage you towards achieving your goals.

For any businessman to be successful, that person must take risk to invest because he hasn't invested yet but he believes that he can can become successful in his business without knowing about what will happen tomorrow, if the business will favor him. Bit because he has a goal, he just need to invest so that he can see the outcome of his investment. What I understand is that successful businessmen take more risks than the unsuccessful ones, for them to grow.

In life whatever you are doing, you must have that confidence in you that you can achieve it, if not it wouldn't work out for you because you will be demoralized with the thought of not making it, since you don't believe in yourself.

I completely get what you mean as I have been through that same scenario over a hundred times already, and sometimes even today there are occasional relapses when I have to face something important at work or do a chore I've been putting off for the longest time. Our mind is our biggest dictator, we let it control us every time even when we feel like it's not the best thing to do. One thing that I found that helped me overcome such a scenario is to counter those thoughts by reminding myself that if I don't do it today it will surely cause more time and a bigger problem tomorrow. We have to remember that sometimes stress and pressure can be a good thing as it drives us to face our fears and pus forward.

Within the domain of awesome thoughts, action is the genuine differentiator, setting fruitful business visionaries separated from unimportant dreamers.
after all, may be a embroidered artwork of dangers, and victory comes to those who jump into the obscure, change over dreams into activity, and advance from visionaries into flourishing business visionaries, taking off a stamp on the world.

What you are saying I think is subjective, not optimistic. Many people are so confident in their plans that they do not pay attention to the reality that is happening, which is called subjective and irresponsible. Optimism means that we are always calm in every situation, know how to listen to everyone's opinions, and find ways to come up with good solutions for the business no matter how difficult it is.

I agree with what poodle63 said, doing business and being successful is not as easy as many people imagine. To me, the first thing we should do is step out of our comfort zone, do things that others don't dare to do, act and act instead of just planning and talking and talking. Don't teach or show someone how to get rich when we can't get rich ourselves. Results are what people will see and judge a person as, ideas and theories are useless if they do not bring good results.

Most of the time, I fail at anything new because of procrastination. When I want to learn something new or do something new, my mind tells me, "hey you're not feeling well today, start with fresh mind tomorrow" and hundreds of thoughts come to my mind. After a while, I start thinking about the negative side of the idea that why it won't work, and in the end I finish(quite) working on the idea that I never started. Most of the time I procrastinate because my mind tells me, you are not feeling well today start tomorrow, you are awake for 1 night you need to sleep, etc.

By the way nice article I bookmarked it for reminder.

How do successful people stand out in today's fast-paced economy? It's dreams and determination. One important point: many dream, but few act. But why? Why are there so many people watching from the sidelines? Does it fear the road, hardships, or failure?

Overcoming obstacles and learning from mistakes is the path to success. Without a doubt. And yes, how will you arrive if you never leave? Grit, determination, and resilience are valued in the modern business as well as invention. One must accept the process, however challenging, to succeed, achieve financial stability, and make a difference. Isn't it true that we develop, mature, and acquire the necessary skills to accomplish seemingly unachievable goals precisely because of these challenges?

I highly agree that an entrepreneur must be realistic and base their action according to the situation.  The reason why I stated that a successful entrepreneur always considers the risk factor is because knowing the risk factor keeps these optimistic entrepreneurs in reality.  The difference is that with being optimistic, they have different approaches to hard situations where they are less prone to stress and frustration making them see the whole picture with motivation and hope which can lead to more competitive decisions.

Dreamers are all talk and no work.  They tend to plan big but failed to start small because they are too consumed of dreaming and planning things only to end out that they won't be able to do a thing.  


I agree most of the successful people started from a scratch, the difference between a successful person and a dreamer ( the one that full of idea but no action) is that a successful entrepreneur never give up on his goal while the latter one is too lazy or afraid to start to work out his dream due to being afraid of the risk or the wants to walk in a smooth path which is not possible when dealing in business matters.

People who can achieve success and build a business that continues to grow and progress, it all starts with dreams and maximum effort. However, it is very unfortunate that many people have big dreams and brilliant ideas but just sit quietly without taking any action, because they don't want to go through a difficult process, don't want to feel the bitterness of learning, don't want to feel how painful it is when they accept failure. which ultimately turns the dream into just wishful thinking.
If we want to be successful people, be financially stable people and be able to provide more benefits to many people, then we must be able and willing to undergo a process which, although bitter, difficult, painful and hard to go through, you must remember that This is what will shape you into a stronger person so that you will be able to achieve all your dreams, which according to some people is something that is impossible for you to do.

Life is all about survival. Everything we do is for the survival of us and our family. Setting a goal for us gives us the motivation to work hard. It is true that sometimes we fail to get what we planned for but this gives us experience and lessons about our lives. We reach our destination by claiming the stairway of experience and failure. Sometimes we discover ourselves in a risky position that tests our survival skills.

Never forget that who have succeeded today have started from a scratch, so they have been into failures a lot of times but they are strong enough to overcome them since they always try to put everything in action, than just to stay dreaming and yet fearful to put them into action knowing they are afraid to take risk and are afraid of losing. And with fears comes procrastination, which is why a lot of people fail because their efforts are not enough, or they are just simply lazy to start everything thinking that if they don’t got the chance to start today, there will still be a lot of chances that will come and will provide them the same opportunities they’ve seen today.

Life is not just about risks. Of course, there will be risks you will take, but life is not all about risks. We cannot do everything we do successfully. It may not be everything we want. We cannot always achieve our goals. All of this should not be seen as a loss.

Sometimes a success story is written thanks to our failures. That's why we shouldn't act with definitive judgments in this life. Many factors such as time, luck, education and focus shape our lives. But contrary to what you said at the beginning, life cannot be about risks.

Our goal in life should not be to reach a certain level by taking risks. We can take risks at certain times, but there needs to be a limit.

Confidence on the sense that it should really be just on that right level or manner because having that overconfidence dos have its own cons too on which its not something that suggested on having on.Its true that
no matter how good your analysis is, no matter how good your plan or insights but it would really be that totally be shut down if you dont have the confidence on trying out to materialize or doing it or applying
it into the thing that you are dealing then it would really be totally useless. We know that when running up something then it does need proper planning and management but if you dont have that kind of
confidence towards those things that  you have done then application would be possible. You wont really be knowing the outcome unless you do make a move.


If you do have plans but you are just simply making out having no action then those dreams would really be remain to be dreams and something that cant really be
comes into fruition because you didnt take any action.  This is why it would really be always important that you should really be making acts and plans
to make it happen because if not then you wont really be making any progress.

i meet a lot of dreamers in my environment, quite often when we sit together, someone says he wants to start a business, he without hesitation puts forward his idea in front of us but until now he has never made it happen because he doesn't have the mentality and courage to make it happen.  anyway i have a small car wash business, the income i get is not much but the thing that makes me satisfied is that i executed my idea and my dream came true, i survived until now because i believe everything i do will not be in vain, i hope everyone out there have the courage to start, if you fail then you have to look for your own answers.

One of the factors that lead to failure in pursuit of a dream may not be fear for some, but appluase. Some people just cannot do without wanting people to clap for them or give them accolades for their brilliance and intuition, whereas they thrive on this fake applause, they soon forget that it is the test of time that will determine if their actions while trying to fulfil their ideas was worth it.
It's good to put actions to ideas but what's more important is to note if the idea is worth pursuing in the first place.

I think the major dream killer is procrastination. Many people who have not been able to carry out their dreams did procrastinated over it and that caused them the zeal to carry on with it. We need zeal to be able to move our dream away from mere wishful thinking to manifestation of reality. It requires a drastic step to carry out ideas like those who have achieved in the areas of technology, science or medicine, they had to deprive theirselves certain comfort before they could innovate whatever they had dream of. Those with scientific minds didn't give up until they have achieved in their field, example in electricity, automobile etc.

Dreams that only become wishful thinking and no follow-up or action is taken, then it will not produce anything.

Just like people who analyze trades, do research, and everything is done, but in the end,
do not make any trades and there will be no profits or even losses.

Wishful thinking coupled with real action will result in an opportunity for progress,
even if it is a profit or loss that must have been trying to do in real terms.

Many of us have read or heard about Gogol's novel Dead Souls. One of the characters in the story, the landowner Manilov, dreamed of a bridge across the river, of trading on the bridge, and much more. And he dreamed all day long, and was so enthusiastic that he even forgot to eat. And he only dreamed - but did nothing. After all, dreams must have a real basis

Thank you for this article full of positive energy and valuable advice.
I will focus on this point because it is very important. Idea killers spread throughout all societies, and they are often, as you mentioned, the frustrated people very close to you, your family, friends, or your wife. If they are the frustrated type, they cause others’ frustration and failure.

Staying away from such people is necessary because they give you negative energy, cause you to fail, and destroy your dreams. But the biggest problem is if they are very close and you cannot stay away from them? What can you do in this situation?

Confidence is everything even if you have the best plan, roadmap, and money you will not reach the result and the success that you want to achieve if you don't have the confidence to make it happen, so many people fail because they they think that their plan is going to be a big failure,
We are enriching ourselves with knowledge on how to succeed to arm our confidence that we can make it happen.

So for me, confidence in all the characteristics you mentioned of a successful entrepreneur confidence is very important I have not known of a successful man who is not confident who realized their dream.

It is true that not everyone takes adequate and necessary steps towards the idea they have in other to make it work as planned, in every task ahead of us are also some requirements that are involved in them that makes the task deserves our relentless efforts to make it all happened as we wanted, some ideas only die along the way like smoke because they are just a mere dream that lack the further procedures towards it's realization, same also applies to every dreamers who have their own goals but refused to work on it, not until we are determined to offer the required sacrifice to see a dream come through, we may end having them only on an idea level.

I totally agree with this, fear of failure, is the main reason for us not too being too reckless. And in my opinion being reckless is one of the main reason people keep making bad decision. And with fear we tend to do things more carefully and research more diligently. But I guess this factors varies for every person, some people are just either lucky enough or so tough they can survive many failures and bad decisions.

I don't disagree with those points, but I just think they're far from a full list. One major thing it misses is that sometimes some people remain dreamers while others become entrepreneurs because of a major difference in finances and life circumstances.
Another important thing can be the economic climate of one's country, which is sometimes very hostile to new businesses and at other times very welcoming.
I'm sure that there are other reasons as well, and I think we should be more aware of the impact of inequality.

Laziness is a habit, this can be said to be a bad disease for warriors. this makes a fighter turn into a dreamer. What's more, if you add the habit of procrastinating, this is a very suitable combination for a fighter to become a loser who only talks big and empty.

talking big by telling stories or sharing your thoughts and ideas with your colleagues will make your ideas die, regardless of the reasons given to you, so that you will become pessimistic and just hoard your dreams. There is also an old saying that explains about sharing ideas with other people which says "if you have a wish, don't tell it to anyone. The more you tell it, the greater the chance of failure."
Yes, that's the danger of procrastinating, even trivial things will become big and confusing. like the words "little by little, over time it becomes a hill" is not a positive thing if it has the connotation of the habit of procrastinating, the longer you put off ideas, the greater your ideas and opportunities will be used by other people or even stolen because you tell them more often. your idea rather than implementing it

You have provided many explanations of facts and I very much agree. But this question will turn to you before others judge themselves for failing. I mean the question you will receive from other people is how far have you achieved success? and what is the ideal implementation that you can give us? or in the end you also only theorize while in reality you never start at all.

In the business world, building everything requires cooperation and complementing each other. Having an idea and being supported by the resource elements to achieve it will be easier. The idea will be considered successful if mutual cooperation between the idea owner and the executor in the field is built.

Sharing ideas with people who don't see past their nose or who are myopic in reason or have no optimistic tendencies is one way to sure kill an idea or business even after the implementation stages.

Fear is a common factor and it comes in many forms. Fear can cripple ambition and the issue with dreamers is that they expect things to go smoothly till the dream is achieved, without putting into consideration many a time that entertaining the fear of anything or obstacles require courage and the simple will to act in faith.

Sir, you explained it very simply but very right on target. I love it. And that is what happens or that is the problem that dreamers have. They don't actually trust themselves very well. Which makes them more pessimistic. In fact, to roll a large snowball you have to start by rolling a small snowball. That's what they forgot. I think they should first work on their own self-confidence. Because that's one of the sources of the problem.

I have an experience about this thing. Because In my university life, I have so much new ideas. Some of them are implemented as well. But my some of close friends were killed most of my ideas during that time. They are always saying this can not possible or always makes jokes about that.  End of the day our idea will be gone forever.

Of all the reasons, the one most experienced by someone is laziness and procrastination, where they will say that I will start tomorrow. But the next day, they didn't start their plans one by one and still said they would start tomorrow. And it happens so continuously that they don't start at all.

But for a prospective successful entrepreneur, they will not postpone it because the more they postpone it, the further away they will be from their dreams. They don't want that to happen and will try their best to make what they dream of come true. They are not afraid of failing to realize their plans because they know that failure and other reasons will not stop them from realizing their dreams.

So it is true that life is about risks and how they can overcome the risks. They must also be strong in facing challenges to make their dreams come true and continue to encourage themselves to remain focused on making their dreams come true.

All the points you convey are facts and realities that happen to many people who want to achieve their dreams. But to be honest, the two points above for me are the most difficult points to abandon and remove from my mindset. Because these two points are points that seem trivial but in fact have a very big influence in making all dreams come true. The thing is, I personally have experienced both points simultaneously, and the results had a negative impact on my progress in all areas. But after that I was able to get out of feeling lazy, like procrastinating work and not being confident. You could say that at that time I always asked the people closest to me for advice. Then at that time I knew how to overcome these two obstacles.

So the way to get out of these two obstacles can actually be said to be simple, but if it is to be implemented it is very difficult and requires great seriousness. Because from my personal experience, even though I know how to overcome it, I still have difficulty getting out of the obstacle zone. So the main key to the problems I experienced was Motivation and always pushing myself

Because if I feel lazy and always put off work, I always remember my biggest motivation and I always force myself to do the things I originally wanted to postpone. But even so, as I explained, even though you know the medicine, you can't get instant healing. So basically it takes a long process to be able to implement a new mindset and new habits.

The fear of failure is not only at the beginning, but in all stages. Whoever fears failure always puts failure before his eyes, and therefore any stage that does not go as desired, he begins to think that it is a failure and that I must stop. Fear of failure is opposed to recklessness and not calculating an alternative plan or investing entirely based on emotions. I see many of those who invest in alternative currencies who do not invest for any reason other than that they believe that their price will exceed Bitcoin one day, and this is more recklessness than fear of failure.

The journey to success certainly requires good ideas and we have to be able to carry them out because no matter how good the ideas we have without going through any process then these ideas are not useful for us, but I think to be able to realize the ideas we have we have to go through the existing process so that We achieve success from the ideas we have and we also have to be very confident in the ideas we are going to implement, lest when we run them they only run for a short time and we don't produce anything from them. It would be better for us to review first whether the idea we have is suitable to be implemented and if we experience problems in carrying it out we must be able to solve it well.

A lot of those things are neutralized when people are pushed into a corner to take action. I have had friends with great ideas, but they were in a job already and they did not want to leave the comfort of that security to take the next step to try out their innovative ideas.

The moment when you lose that job and you are forced to do something else, then people start exploring the unknown. A lot of successful people had to lose their job to start a new innovative business that later became successful. 

Don't wait until life push you to start your own business, go out there and do it.. 

Yes, those are great thoughts about positive issues here. Actually, I feel like life has countless stories, so there are things that have almost become a habit of forgetting. We think about success, and we need to think about the beginning and the journey with it, positivity will help reorient the process. But as a hypothesis about the lack of conviction in the idea, not being able to get what you want is something that I believe is fair here, we simply don't have the ability yet.

two issues i see when i talk to dreamers

1. they are usually the low income people who are used to not having any money at the end of the month.. the issue with this is they are at the end where they have nothing to lose and have every opportunity to gain. even if they start slow. like dedicate just $10 to buy a product they can sell for $30. then use that $30 to buy 3xproducts. and repeat until self sustainable to take an income whilst still selling

2. dreamers feel to start off they need to start big. meaning if they have no spare income of $thousands they think they cannot start a business/idea. however they are wrong. anyone can start small. you just have to prioritise and plan your way forward. it might be a longer path but its a safer path that can grow with less risk

The country where I live has a good old saying ''think positively to receive positivity''

Positivity makes us stronger, but perhaps @poodle63 also needs to look at the problem more simply when we all understand reality and should not do things beyond our ability to achieve target. I know that successful people need to go through different lessons of failure until they learn the lesson.

And IMO, positivity should be understood more through action, such as having a healthy lifestyle in life.

but I think optimistic entrepreneur also should know when to be realistic, if thing just doesn't work then it just doesn't work, you don't force your business to work just because youre optimistic while at loss because it will result in even bigger problem that is strangling yourself with debt.
i think businessman should always be realistic with a little flavour of optimistic, basically balance of the two, with being overly pessimistic someone will get nothing done.
because business isn't as easy as many have pictured out to be, its really difficult thing to do so much stress, so much pressure and need to be really effective at doing things since we are constrained with limited capital.

The list @OP shows the traits and ideology of a pessimist person.  In entrepreneurs, there is no room for pessimist people.  Optimistic people are those who dare to challenge the risk, learn from their past experience, and love to prove their idea over the idea killers that their idea is not wrong.  Optimistic people mostly experience success in their endeavors because they take life in a possitive outlook, of course, their actions also consider risk factors but they mitigate them by analyzing situations and planning for the best approach.

For an optimistic entrepreneur, nothing can be a hurdle and every problem has its solution.

There's a saying that I instilled upon myself every time I face crossroads between taking risks and cutting my profits/losses. "You risk more by not doing anything"

Of course this doesn't apply to everything involving business and whatnot, but it has been a great gauge/motivator for me whenever I feel like I'd pass off an opportunity just cause either I deem myself incapable of it, not cut for it, or whenever I feel like the opportunity has passed already. More often than not the limits we have are self-imposed, and when you let go of these limits in exchange for action that will defy your ceilings, you'd find out just how much capable of doing so much more you would be. It took a lot of missed opportunities and failed attempts for me to get where I am now, and I can't say I've stopped committing these mistakes as it's a normal life process, but the fact that I am committing mistakes is testament itself that I am doing something instead of nothing, and frankly speaking it's much better than lying around waiting for stuff to change for you.

On a normal note, it is very easy to have dreams but difficult to archive them, and there are major factors that contribute to a successful dream or entrepreneur, like you said. I think the first thing is to have the required resources to even start chasing your dreams.

One could have a dream of becoming one of the best doctors in their state and also having the best private hospital in that state, but the person with such a dream might not have at that moment even the money to further their education through the university. Therefore, it could just become a dream all their life until it's no longer a dream that can be archived due to how age has really affected them.

You can even have a dream to become one of the most successful entrepreneurs, a business tycoon both national and international, but you will keep striving to achieve all of that but don't really get to the extent of what your mind is telling you.

👉👉Fear of been a failure

👉👉Failure to embrace risk

This is where most people do really lack on, because of having that kind of behavior then you would really be missing out those good opportunities or chances that in your front on which
it might really be causing for you to make some profits but since you are really that afraid on taking up the risks then you wont really be doing something or sitting idle.
You would really be just making or saying those regrets on the time that you do see that the price had risen up or something that value had increased which leaves you that making those regrets
and keep telling the you should have made out such decision but well its already late.

You could have those unlimited dreams but since you dont make out any actions then it would really be just remaining to be a dream. If you do like to make it come true
then you should act and make those things happen on making such step and not really just make yourself that daydreaming.

There is one thing I know for sure, you won't have a result if you don't try, some people already fail before they try, and some get motivated based on what others around them are doing, and once they see such people failed, they will lose their motivation too.

Leave failure for later, try and see what will happen, just because A failed to achieve something doesn't mean B will end up with the same result, we have mistakes because of progress, if you are too afraid of making mistakes you will never improve in life.

Everything you said is true OP, the only thing standing between failure and success is hope, when everything turn to impossible, that little hope that's left in you can open a door for you.

After all this is said and done, let's not forget that happiness is the key, do not be too carried away by what you want to achieve, you can still feel empty after getting it all, so do not forget to live your lives to the fullest, be happy and spend time with your love ones, time is running out.

I definitely agree with most of what you've written here and seen that the most successful, self made, people apply many of these points to their day to day lives. Having a hustler mentality is often at the core of most entrepreneurial and free thinking people, where they are always on the hunt for reasonable trade offs in the pursuit of profits. Life is one constant game of risk and sometimes you have to step outside your comfort zones in order to gain new experience. People who come up with successful stock market strategies that bring them money, only learned how to do that by putting their own money at risk and even making a bunch of bad trades but they used the knowledge gained to improve afterwards.

Indeed, there are many factors that cause someone who already has lots of business ideas in their head but is unable to start the business at all. These factors are lack of financial capital and insight, lack of courage to take risks because they are too afraid of failure before even taking the first step. People who are afraid of failure before even taking a step are like soldiers who have lost even before going to war.

That's why there are many people who prefer to be in a safe and comfortable zone. like being a regular employee. But people who have more courage will usually get out of their comfort/safety zone and take on risky challenges. Of course, after making careful planning. So between dreamers and successful people there is actually only a slight difference, namely their courage.

Being wealthy and having financial freedom is what everyone wants but it's not our ultimate goal. Stop fantasizing and expecting too much because it won't do you any good and it won't change your life in the slightest. All you have to do is keep trying your best and keep improving your knowledge, skills and creativity as a form of your first step towards success. So first do a maximum effort, about the results later. Rich is not the main goal, because later if you succeed and have skills in doing business then you will get wealth and financial success.

To achieve all this, never be afraid to take a risk, because sometimes it is not the difficulty that makes us afraid but the fear that makes us difficult to step so that whatever we do becomes full of doubts.

We are all social creatures, "You have acquaintances and I have acquaintances" & "You have friends and I have friends". Indeed, when we talk about finance, almost everyone who wants to start a business is plagued by this problem, but don't let this problem become a cause of your steps being stalled until you have to decide to bury the big dream deep. Keep trying and take advantage of existing relationships, because I'm sure if you have good intentions, honest and responsible behavior, there will always be people who will lend a hand to help you answer all the problems that exist.

This is really true, and I have met several people who had a huge potential from being successful but hinders them from reaching it because of family matters.
For instance, there are people who used to excel in the academe but was forced to stop their studies because they had no choice for, they are the only one that is expected to provide for their families. This is a matter of family over dreams, and of course, family is still the top priority (for others) even if it means that you have to give up on your dreams. So, I think the support of your family plays a major role in pushing you to succeed in this field, and that will help your ideas to be taken into action. This is quite sad, but this is really happening in real life as I have known a lot of people who share the same narratives like this.  But there are people who gave up their dreams for a moment, and then continue pursuing it and become successful entrepreneurs.

This is one of the realities of life. There are breadwinners who are just giving up their dreams because they need to choose earning money over their passion to support their lives and bring food to their table. But those people that have dreams and despite the situation that they're facing, they won't just give up their dreams. They find a way to support their families and at the same time, they're pursuing their dreams. This doesn't just happen in movies and films but also in real life. And even when they reach their goals and dreams, they're not going to stop supporting their family because it's like in the blood of those family-oriented people and will do whatever it takes to do both things, to show the love to their family and also to reach the dream that they're wanting to achieve. IMO, these days, most of the families are changing their mindsets and parents don't want to pass the burden of theirs to their kids and letting them do what they wanna do.

A business man that stays with his family, is best to move along with them. There is no way he'll lose his family because of business. Unless, he traveled and left his family behind. If he leaves enough money for his family before traveling, he may not lose his family, even. Planning, consistency and courage fuels business growth and ideas. Not anybody can do it alone. Many would need help in the process. Hence, working together with the family can be effective. They could be your best business advisers, partners or participants. Depending on the level of understanding in the family. But, its common among business people, their family joins them. So, a family man who cares, can't fail his family for business. Unless he's working to set up a fresh family. A successful business from an unsuccessful family, in terms of cooperation, will suffer losses. Personally, I'd say that a man can as well work with his family on a business and end up being very successful. In accordance with what he offers to the society. Some locations may be lacking out on some services, and would need special services on the utility, and no one to handle or sell it to them. These are important research to make, before setting up a business. Not just filling up the brain with thoughts and no action. Once a person is sure that what they're about to offer the society is on demand, they shouldn't be scared of setting up the business. Fine it may not start immediately, but he'll gain customers. I don't see family as a hindrance.

Sometimes the ideas they get from reading books cannot be realized because they collide with their capital and mindset.
Many people think that capital is the main key, but we can see that many successful entrepreneurs maximize what they have, starting from something quite small but slowly becoming a successful business, because that's how it should be.
Reading books is very good for changing mindsets but practicing them is much better, and a businessman should not be afraid of failure and also losing money because that is part of success in business.

Fear can never drive you to success. It rather kill your strength to achieve success. Do you know how many people that have failed an examination or job interview due to fear. I've seen a situation where a student grew an exam fever due to the fear of such examination. A fearful person that want to address an audience will rather say rubbish out fear even when he/she knows what he is suppose to say. Being confidence is the to anything one is doing in life. Sometime, your rubbing address in a public talk can earn you multiple of claps just because you are confidence with what you are saying.


I don't really understand how this factors I mentioned can lead someone to failure. Although applying them all doesn't guarantee one will achieve maximum success but it part of the challenges most entrepreneurs should look into for success in their business.

The difference between a dreamer and a doer is that a doer is someone who has taken action, and a prompter to take action is a strong believe that you can achieve what you have planned, this if fueled by believe, especially the believe that you have in your own abilities. Self believe beats the believe that other people have in you because it is motivating from within. Believe does not think that there will be no problems or obstacles to success, believe eliminates doubt that the problems will be unsolvable.

They are afraid on taking risks and even if they are that accepting such risks but they dont really have the capital on starting so.This is why we cant really that making some conclusion in regards about the situation

because there are several factors or reasons on which it would really be a big hindrance for you to be able to make up such step and really that giving you no way for such progress since we dont really have no choice specially on the time that we dont have capital or money to start with on which this is the biggest challenge i would say and the other or next will be talking about being lazy or not risks taker.
Monetary issues would really be that common but not all entrepreneur's started up with having big capital but still manage to succeed on this space.

It do matters always on how you would really be trying out to pursue those goals or targets on which it isnt something that could really be easily be that
achieved without having that real hardwork and dedication.

Many people simply stop at thinking what they want and they fail to pursue it as they know that actually achieving what they want is very difficult, basically people want to become rich but they do not want to take all the steps necessary to become rich, however someone with that mentality will never go far, since we know very well that in order to achieve anything in this life we need to take risks and be willing to waste our time and our savings pursuing a goal we may not reach.

When you have a dream but you never think about it or follow it up and put it in the form of a plan then it is not a dream but it is just wishful thinking.
And I advise that when you dream, dream as high as possible so that when you fall, you will fall among the sparkling stars. And when you have that dream, keep trying as hard as possible to make it come true. If on the way to achieving this dream you experience difficulties and encounter very serious problems, then you just need to remember that great surfers are not born from small waves. And you need to know that every difficulty you face and every big problem you encounter, whether you realize it or not, is what will lead you to the gate of success.

Why not rather change your friends or your circle, you can not completely get it right, there are times you need to share idea with someone that's close for encouragement and even advice or assistant in your idea. I think a successful entrepreneur  has smart people or person around him/her.


Very correct as an entrepreneur or an investor you need to understand that risks would be taken it's almost inevitable but when challenged with risk always have the mind to back down is the risk is a stupid one. Always take calculated risk and weigh your options properly.

If you are a breadwinner into your family then you would really be needing on taking up those sacrifices but we know that it isnt something a very easy decision to be made considering that you are really that risking
your families condition but if you are really that doing something for much better thing or for better good then its not bad to consider on going into that path. Ideas without having any action would really be just pointless or useless. No matter how great the idea is on what you do have in mind but if it wont come into fruition just because you didnt make out any action then it would really be just remaining to be a dream like forever and this is something that a must avoided thing if you dont really like on finding yourself that having no progress at all. To those who do made out some act and hard work on trying out to achieve their dreams are the ones having the chance or the opportunity on which they could really be able to have those kind of those possible change if they have done it right and having a little bit mix of luck which we know that there are really things
in life that no matter how hard you do work but having no mix of a little luck then it would really be still leading you nowhere.

I want to add one more really point into that.

Fear of losing their family while pursuing dream

Yeah, it may look add from others but still, it is one of the reasons why the majority of the ones who are filled with ideas can't afford to chase their dreams cause they might be the only person who can feed the family, or thousand other reasons like that which we may experience/ passed/heard is also stop them from doing what they can potentially do because they may not have the financial stability to run the family if there is no income generated from that person so they all keep doing even if they wish they could do something better.

I can relate to those factors that despite having good ideas that are on my mind, I just can't execute them as I lack of many things. Forget about the funding as it's a normal problem from these startups.

But the actual establishment of that idea, making it into reality is the tough part. You are unsure of the result and it could even be the worst or the best experience based on your reactions.

Some may encourage you to keep on doing that idea but you'll just get from little to having no support at all. It's only you and a few believers will come out to keeping it up if there's no to little visibility of the potential result.

So many people fail in many things but they never stop dreaming. Risking money at a time when everyone is struggling may really be costly especially when your business also relies on the flow of clients.  With limited capital and a business that you aren't really passionate about is quite a bad mixture.

I have had my share of failures with my 1st and 2nd business and maybe because I do things at the same time. I wanna be a good father and a businessman. I fell on being a businessman but I make sure my kid likes me and we do things together. This at least I make sure won't fail.

It is okay to have plans but if actualization won’t be there then that plan will just be a story you could tell to other people. We hesitate ‘coz we don’t have enough courage to do so. Indeed, the consequence which is losing, is the biggest wall we should first break in order to meet success in our roads. And with regards to other people’s judgements, it is valid if you would react into those but to rely into such subjective viewpoints won’t push you to achieve more. Things are all in our hands for sure. Every struggle as well could be resolved as long as we qould have the drive or eagerness to do so. With regards to failure, there are just people who cannot handle such consequences but if you’re aware of it then you should have not continued in the first place.

You remind of countless stories of how people miss bitcoin at lower price but today, it is back to where almost everyone wish to have it but they are now scared to buy it. This is the risk they forget to include among them, without risk there is no potential and if you refuse to take it, you will regret when it grow because by the time everyone reap the fruit of their labour(patience), they will not get the chance to enjoy it.

Procrastination is deadly, it's one to avoid as a serious person, if that masters your body system, to do even a simple task will be like a load of laundry you want to do with hands, you will miss many of opportunities because you refuse to take them and those that are successful today never give procrastination a welcome hug in their life.

Everything you have said OP is true. It seems you were speaking to me.  In some cases, it is not money that is hindering us from achieving our dreams but simple things like procrastination and fear of the unknown. We need to take risks because it is even riskier not to take risks. Ideas rule the world so if you have one execute it.  There is no shame in failure because you have just gained some experience. Many great inventors and successful business executives failed so many times but they kept trying. You might be mocked or laughed at but you are better than people that never tried.

        -   All people want to succeed in life; that's why most people are afraid to try. Those who don't do anything yet think about the result immediately usually have negative thoughts in their minds. They are afraid of falling and of others saying negative things about what they are doing.

In these situations, when it comes to "success," there are only two things you can say: "Are you a dreamer," a type of person who "will do whatever it takes to get it," or a "daydreamer," who "will do" your best," which in the end is "your best wasn't good enough." Which one are you here or two?

Fear is the abundance that drives you to success more than determination. If the exam or the job you are going to join means a matter of life or death, you will be more focused and diligent in it than someone who loves perseverance and strives to achieve more. If you use the emotion of fear well, you will find great energy that will enable you to perform tasks that you are unable to do in normal days.


The factors you mentioned may lead you to failure, but applying them does not necessarily mean success. You avoided failure, which is the easy option, but success is the more difficult option, which requires more effort and experience in drawing up strategies, implementing them, and then withdrawing profits.

The world is full of great ideas. Many people have brilliant ideas but only few can bring them to action. This is what really separates a successful entrepreneur from a dreamers. Some can read 100 of self-help books but all they know is the theory aspect of life because they have failed to put all or part of what they have read in action. They keep saying "I should be the first person to have started this business in this community" after seeing people making it from such business. Reasons why people may fail to put their ideas into action:

👉👉Fear of been a failure
Fear is one great factor that can easily kill dreams. Failure shouldn't be an obstacle for you to achieve your dream. Alot of billionaire today has once failed in the history of their life. Check out this my article (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.60900070) on Rejection, failure and disappointment, its impact on ones achievement... From this you will see that sometimes one needs to fail in life to grow.

👉👉Failure to embrace risk
To achieve in life, you must learn to embrace risk. Everything in life is risk. Mr Johnson has $2000 and he said to himself. The economy doesn't favour any business and I don't want to lose my money, so let me just keep it in bank . He has forgotten that the bad economy system will also hit the money in his account.

👉👉Laziness and procrastination
Laziness and procastination may work together to kill ones dream. Some aren't too lazy to work on their idea but just that they keep delaying things by proponing the development of their ideas till tomorrow. They always say"I will start it tomorrow" but their tomorrow never ends. Always remember someone may has same idea you have in mind. Being early to enter the market before the person can be an added advantage for you.

👉👉Sharing ideas with Idea Killers
Idea Killers can be anyone. It can be your close friend, family or neighbour. Telling them your ideas may easily kill your dream. They easily give you hundreds of reasons why the idea may not work and this may therefore kill the idea in you.

👉👉Fear of losing their money.
Fear of losses is a great threat to success. This can easily stop you from being able to think clearly about that your good idea. Sometimes you need to lose some money to later make it big with your idea. Never be turn down by your failure. If you lose money to a business, all you need to do is to analyze the reason and the mistakes you made for such to have happened. This should teach you a lesson and not to fall into such mistake next time.

👉👉Holding on past experiences and beliefs
Some people kill their dream through their past experience or experience they got through someone close to them. They said to themselves Mr Charles did thesame business and fail after investing alot of money. Instead of analysising the mistakes Mr Charles had made that had lead to the downfall of his business, they just easily conclude that such idea may also not work for them.

👉👉Lack of self confidence
Some people don't have confidence in themselves. They never believe they can do it alone. Self confidence is highly needed if you want your idea/business to be successful.


CONCLUSION
Alot of people today blame themselves for what they have failed to do some years ago. The idea you failed to develop year ago may be the success story of another person that turn him/her to a rich person. Life is just about risk. Risk that money in your account into your ideas without minding what people will say, put in all your possible best for the idea to become successful and become a successful entrepreneur rather than a dreamer.