MBA981 Fighting Depression in Entrepreneurship

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Marketing

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

No one said this would be easy.

Business is tough. Entrepreneurship can be even tougher. We think it’s healthy, productive, and good for your business for you to acknowledge this struggle. If we can’t face the valleys, we won’t reach the peaks! That’s why we’re devoting today’s episode to helping you work through the dark times, the times when your path to success is the hardest.

We’re all about positivity. But the plain and simple truth is that entrepreneurship is hard sometimes, and that’s ok. By dealing with our unique challenges in a constructive way, we not only get through the rough patches — we enrich the whole experience, and grow into stronger business people. Today, we discuss exactly how to live with, address, and even embrace the entrepreneur’s uphill battles.

With a little support, a little advice, and some good ol’ optimism, you can keep things in perspective. You can do this! Click Play!

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0:16.4	Heyo! Welcome to the $100 R&V show, your personal travel guide along your business journey. With our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world, I'm your host, your
0:20.9	coach, your teacher, Omar Zenholm. I'm also the co-founder of the
0:24.8	hundred dollar MBA a complete business training and community online over at
0:29.4	one zero zero MBA dot net and today's lesson is an important one. We're going to be talking about fighting
0:36.2	depression in business. We hear a lot about the wins in business, the climb to the
0:41.0	top, the victories.
0:43.0	But what not a lot of people talk about is that journey to the top is not easy.
0:48.0	A lot of us don't make it because it's an emotional roller coaster.
0:52.0	And some of us have days where we just... because it's an emotional roller coaster.
0:53.0	And some of us have days where we just don't want to do what we have to do.
0:57.1	It's hard to get up in the morning, you don't have that spring in your step.
1:00.0	And it's for a lot of reasons.
1:01.6	Now you may not describe the challenges you're going through as depression,
1:04.8	but you're definitely not feeling motivated.
1:06.6	You're not feeling yourself.
1:08.9	You're feeling sluggish.
1:09.8	You're feeling tired.
1:11.0	You're having doubts.
1:11.9	You're starting to feel, is this all worth it.
1:14.1	I certainly had those thoughts and feelings myself.
1:17.2	And I know entrepreneurs myself that have struggled with depression because of the nature of what we do. We pour in so much into what we build and often if we don't have the right strategies or tools or people around us to help us get through the dips in business because there will be dips.
1:35.0	We sometimes don't make it. We don't make it to the other side.
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