If you want to become successful in the world of business, it's going to take a lot of hard work, useful skills, relationships, determination, and mental fortitude.

You have to force yourself to become comfortable with the discomfort of risking failure (because you will crash and burn sometimes), taking harsh criticism, and constantly releasing your creations into the world before they feel "ready." Your mentality, and ability to roll with the punches to keep pushing forward, will greatly determine your level of success as an entrepreneur.

• > Never Stop Building Your Strengths
  Today's top entrepreneurs got to where they're at by being the best at what they do. They're focused intensely on discovering their true strengths very early on and relentlessly build upon them.

In fact, most successful entrepreneurs actively outsource, hire help, or completely avoid doing tasks that aren't within their core skill set. They know that the more time they spend doing only what they're best at, the higher their chance of success.

• > Learn to Say "No" Often
  How well you allocate your time, especially in the beginning phases of growing your business, will have a huge impact on how quickly and effectively you'll be able to scale the company. Think about it this way: If time is your most precious resource, the way you need to allocate it, is essentially by choosing to do only the highest-impact activities that can move your business the furthest toward your goals.

• > Failure Isn't Real
  If you want to truly become successful in the world of business, you're going to have a whole lot of learning experiences, disguised as temporary failures.

The sooner you can train yourself to realize that there's no such thing as real failure, the quicker you'll embrace the fact that you have very little to lose by putting your creations out into the world before they feel ready.

• > You're in Control of How You Define Success
  The word, "success" in business is most commonly associated with becoming a millionaire, selling the company you founded in your college dorm room for billions of dollars or landing on the cover of Entrepreneur Magazine.

However, success actually has nothing to do with any of these three common goals. The true measure of success in business is how much you're able to use your skills and strengths to help others. All other measures by which success is commonly defined, are purely vanity metrics.

• > Invest in Your Relationships
  Continuing the theme that true success is defined by how many people you can measurably help within your lifetime, there's one final, crucial element to your success as an entrepreneur: The genuine, meaningful relationships you build with people will reward you for years to come.

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