What Every Struggling Entrepreneur Needs to Hear (My Personal Lessons)

hey everyone leam Motley here and today I wanted to make a quick video for those of you who are struggling as an entrepreneur because that is something that I know all too well I was once there and in this video I want to share with you some of the things that helped me get through some of the toughest parts of my entrepreneurial Journey particularly in the earlier stages when you just have no clue what the hell you're doing um so I'm going to share with you some resources that got me through it and some of the key lessons from that journey and also some tactics that allowed me to essentially just keep going without stopping and that's really the name of the game is Just can you just keep going despite all of the evidence showing you otherwise and all of this negative feedback you're getting from the world how can you just keep the courage and strength to keep going and so I want to share with you guys some of you have already found it um it's a Blog from my earliest days as an entrepreneur likely where many of you are in your journey right now the first entry in this is in let me check uh

September 6th of September 2019 and so I started doing a Blog it's here on a WordPress site that was uh it's still up and it was called from Fang day to Financial Freedom and I'm from Fang day in here in New Zealand that's my hometown and it's supposed to be my journey from Fang day to Financial Freedom and so when I started it I said that the purpose of this blog is for me to share my learnings experiences and thoughts I plan to do short Reflections on books I read and hope of maximizing my learnings and sharing these with people that I look up to and perhaps who would look up to me and archive them as some kind of frail form of the evidence that I do in fact know a thing or two however I do recognize that most people reading this will have far more experience in the topics I cover so please send me an email if you have any ideas to bounce around with me or even some criticism if you think I have something wrong or don't see the whole picture which I'm PR of doing and so this blog that I started um was really a way of me keeping in touch when I was living overseas in Scotland with my family and friends I would just like be able to share what I was doing in my entrepreneurial Journey um but this became a pretty valuable place for me to document my thoughts and from the earlier stages of me starting as an entrepreneur which I think can be incredibly valuable for many of you because you may look at me and other people now and be like well they can't even like relate to what I'm going through it's like they seem like they've got it all going and it's just sort of going from one strength to the next which is what it does get to eventually but man it was not like that all along it was extremely painful and you just have no idea what you're doing and so I want to share this resource with you all and I'm going to show you some of my favorite entries here and then later on I'm going to share with you another really important tactic that I used to stay consistent and stay in the game as an entrepreneur when I was just getting

started one of my earliest blogs from 2019 is a book review of Miracle morning by Hal elod which was really what started my entire personal development journey and so here on the blog I'll leave a link of course to this blog in the description I break down the key Concepts in the book what I learned from it um the Savers acronym which is what I started my personal development Journey with which is meditation affirmations visualizations exercise reading and inscribing as well and then I have other book reviews on here like Think and Grow Rich of course a classic that everyone reads at some point in their personal development journey I have little breakdowns of my holidays that I went on while I was living overseas and so what this blog allows you to do is to look back into my life when I was at this stage of my development and see the mundan or basic stuff that I was going through and how I was processing and getting through the

issues and so some of the most important ones that I think you all should read uh things like this here which I titled choosing your pain and I started reading manon's the subtle art of not giving a today and it really struck a cord particularly because of his breakdown of Happiness when asked what you want in life he explains that there's no point in listing all the nice things everyone wants to live a Carefree happy and easy life to have great relationships and to be well respected r he urges readers to consider what pain they want in their life in other words what they are willing to struggle for he uses his own childhood dream of being a rock star as an example he fantasized for years about being up on stage playing guitar to the screams of the crowd and shockingly this never came to fruition as he eventually realized that he was in love with the result the fans rocking out on stage but not to the process the group rehearsals trying to find gigs carting around heavy equipment without a car therefore he didn't really want it and so I said it got me thinking of if I'm caught up in this entrepreneur hype do I really love the struggles of building and running my own business or am I just in love with the result when I consider the pain I wanted in my life I absolutely wanted it to be the ups and downs of business ownership I was directly responsible for the outcome and then I left my readers which was about five people at the time um with a question of saying what pain have you chosen for your life will you find happiness in working through the never-ending onslaught of problems associated with that Journey so for me I still come back to these blogs occasionally to remind myself of how far I've come but for you as someone who is in the same position that I was here this is me literally in my first year of business in 2019 when I was living in Scotland and you get to look in and go through this journey step by step with me basically and see the learning that I was picking up along the way this is the stuff that I can tell to you about business from the point that I'm in now it's a few years down the line likely and it's taken me a long time to get here but the advice that you can get from 2019 Liam is just a few steps ahead of you right so these things are maybe a lot more applicable than some of the other advice that I can give to you because I'm running a business that's it's on a much different level to what I was just trying to get off the ground at the stage there's even other

things on here like my productivity practices that I was picking up at the time which many of which including this I still have in my routine um where I'm planning my day and setting out different tasks it's based off the book called eat that Frog by Brian Tracy and you have a tasks B tasks C tasks D tasks and E tasks and this sorting system is something that I still use regularly to make sure that I'm staying on the right path with my productivity and with my task management I even give you a direct link to the daily planner that I used to use I remember this thing I had used to input them from America and pay stupid money just to get the specific kind of daily planner that I really like to use because I can track on my habits Etc so there's so many valuable resources in this blog if you just take a few minutes to read through it and you can pick up some really good gems that may help you get through this tricky phase of business which is your first year or two on Sundays I just put up a quote like this one of my favorite quotes the man in the arena uh just something that was I was keeping in my mind to keep me going like these really small things you can steal some of the hard work I had to go through and just absorb this quote and put it on your wall I had this stuff stuck all over my wall and you'll even see in some of the blogs I'm saying I like this quotes I stuck in the front of my wall and now I read it every

day then we have ones like this visualizations which is insane for me to read now in the position that I'm in but I say during my morning routine I always set aside time for 5 to 10 minutes of visualizations I close my eyes and imagine my perfect day living my dream life and easily working through tasks I focus on bringing the happiness of that future moment into the present me and my friends somewhere in the world seeing new places meeting new people working on awesome projects and building our businesses waking up in my dream house to a beautiful view driving my dream cars and feeling the rush as I move through the gears when I open my eyes I feel so happy and energized ready to smash through any task standing between where I am currently and where I dream of being give visualizing in the morning ago go if you haven't already I find it's a great way to start the day Liam and when I read this section here it is almost too hard to believe that exactly what I was envisioning and visualizing on 16th of April 2020 it's exactly the life that I have now with my friends and everything that I've got in my life right now so this stuff works is what I'm saying so if you are a struggling entrepreneur which is completely fine I was too then take a look at my blog it's going to be linked in the description and have a read through maybe screenshot your favorite ones you can print it out and put it on your wall and I hope that me feeling like I'm alongside you on this journey will give you the strength to keep going because I promise you it's as much of a game of just staying in the game than it is about absolutely smashing every day and just taking W after W and just absolutely murdering it really is just staying in the game even on those hardest days when you get knocked out it's just get him back up and keep him going and one more of my post that I want to run through with you now that is particularly important for anyone starting a business is this one that I titled riches and I took a quote from

Napoleon Hill that says when riches begin to come they come so quickly and in such great abundance that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years and so this was posted in April of 2020 when I just started making money finally with e-commerce and I said 14 months thousands of dollars what it took for me to make my first dollars and profit online in the past seven days my business has gone from 0 to $1,200 per day it seems unreal and I tear up when I think back to me toiling away on dead end stores and products last year spending every hour of my time out of work sitting in front of a laptop do not let the lean years toer you from pursuing what you want most Liam so there's a friendly reminder about how long it takes to succeed even for me 14 months to make my first dollar in profit online so I'm going to leave a link to this blog down below I highly recommend you just take a skim through it you can sort them by date order and just scroll through and click next have us SC through screenshot your favorite ones and put it on your wall or something cuz I hope that what I went through in this phase and that actually worked I mean to proof in the poting I'm here now so these thoughts and these learnings actually worked and made a difference to me at these early stages oh get a bit bright there sorry there's

also one other thing that I want to share with you and that's my habit of every month I will film a vlog um and you saw it in my Story video all of those daily personal video diaries I would set down basically once a month and I would film on my laptop just me talking to the camera breaking down what i' been going through for the past month with it's personalized life work outside of Entrepreneurship when I was working a normal job uh uni life uh romance Etc but mainly my struggles as an entrepreneur and these video diaries not only did they keep me consistent and I could see I could look back and see far how far I'd come which is really helpful but eventually like as an unintended consequence later down the line should you choose to want to prove who you are and prove the journey that you've been on this becomes a really valuable invaluable resource for you in telling your story because I think personal branding is such a no-brain for people these days and so not only do you get to get the consistency of showing up every month and expecting setting targets and saying next time I hop on this I hope to have this done and then you come on the next month and you say oh well I've gotten this done that consistency and that kind of holding yourself accountable was really beneficial for me um but also you're building up a catalog of proof of who you are and the journey you've been on which can allow you to connect with an audience as I have with many of you through this Channel and there's a bunch of benefits for being able to tell your story especially on this digital age so yeah that's all link to visit the Vlog will be in the description below um I really hope some of these learnings can help you to stay in the game like they did for me so that's all for the video guys thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one