What voices do you listen to as an entrepreneur?

As a business owner and entrepreneur, you are always being barraged by various voices. Many are not worth your time, but some are. There are two distinct voice kinds, and within each voice type there are two categories:

• Your inner voice of encouragement
• Your inner voice of destruction
• Outer voices of encouragement
• Outer voices of destruction

First is the category of your own voice and your self talk. Your mind is powerful and can create a story, and outcome in your head before it even happens. Your inner and self speaking voice is very powerful and can lead you to ultimate success and encouragement or destruction. How you decide to listen, or not listen, to your inner voice is very important. I only chose to listen to my inner voice of encouragement that builds me up, inspires me to grow and makes me desire to be and do better in my life and business. The more I chose to listen to my inner voice of encouragement, the less room my inner voice of destruction has.

The destructive and unfavorable voice occasionally appears. A pessimistic inner voice will occasionally surface, even in the most optimistic person on the globe. It is essential that you write down and repeat your affirmations for positivity out loud and firmly when these voices begin to intrude. The negative inner voices will be silenced and choked by these positive affirmations. When these affirmations are made with strength and conviction, it immediately silences the opposition. Here are a few instances of my affirmations:

• I am strong spiritually, mentally, physically, emotionally, socially, entrepreneurially and all around rock solid.
• I listen to the positive voices in my life. Those of my wife, my children, my crew and those who inspire and encourage me.
• I am woken up by my passion every day.
• I am the world’s most phenomenal father and my children adore me.
• I speak only words of encouragement, love and inspiration.
• I am the worlds most phenomenal husband adored by Emily.

The voices of other people make up the second group. Many people will question you, despise you, and spread negative rumors about you as you develop and become a successful and influential entrepreneur. Few when you’re around, many when you’re not. There are hundreds of positive, uplifting voices and people that will shed a light of positivity and encouragement into your life and business for every one of these doubters. Embrace those that have a positive outlook on life. Extremely powerful and influential people almost never criticize anything or anyone in public. People who are influential and successful learn to block out the clamor, hatred, and bad talk of others. They almost cannot speak critically about others or themselves since they do not allow any of these voices in, which further silences any internal voices they may have.
A quick warning here: Do not mistake a person in your life that you can truly trust and that cares about you, who gives you strong feedback as a negative voice. Remember to consider the source of any feedback or input. For example, if your best friend who you have known for 20 years and have been in business with for 15 years tells you that you are about to make a bad decision, you should listen. Remember that your close circle of people that care about you will have their voices come across with love, concern, and looking out for your best interest. Sometimes, these voices can be mistaken for a negative voice.
I am always conscience of my thoughts and voices. I quickly determine if they are voices of encouragement or voices of destruction. I focus on and hone in on my voices of encouragement and use positive affirmations to strengthen them. This helps to silence the inner voices of destruction. I am also sure to surround myself with positive people and to only listen to the feedback of the people who I feel are credible and caring enough to give me feedback. I take all feedback from the people I see value in seriously, and never confuse a crucial conversation with them as negative. Always remember that there are some people who just never have anything positive to say and never will, and to avoid that energy and those voices at all costs.

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