{"id":3338,"date":"2015-10-29T08:14:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T13:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2015-10-28T15:20:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T20:20:33","slug":"3-ways-women-entrepreneurs-sabotage-their-own-business-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/3-ways-women-entrepreneurs-sabotage-their-own-business-success\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways Women Entrepreneurs Sabotage Their Own Business Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>By Aimee Cohen<\/a><\/p>\n

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So many women dream of owning their own business. Today more than ever, that dream is becoming a reality. I\u2019m not talking about reality TV and I\u2019m not talking about women who dabble in an occasional hobby. I\u2019m talking about driven and successful women who have marketable concepts and brilliant business minds.<\/p>\n

According to the Center for Women\u2019s Business Research, women own 10.6 million businesses in the Unites States, employ 19.1 million workers (that\u2019s 1 in every 7 employees), and account for $2.5 trillion in sales.<\/p>\n

Even though there are plenty of reasons to celebrate the success women are generating in the business world today, there is still room for improvement. As a career coach for more than 20 years, I have coached hundreds of women, many of whom are entrepreneurs and business owners\u2026and their paths to business success are littered with challenges.<\/p>\n

There is a big difference between a business thriving and merely surviving. There are external factors that impact a business owner\u2019s success such as market conditions, economic downturns, competition, and basic supply and demand. These elements are difficult, if not impossible, to control. However, there are also many internal, controllable factors that impact professional success.<\/p>\n

Everyone is guilty of self-sabotage at some point and in some way. These are the unintentional and often subconscious destructive patterns of behavior we commit that can mean the difference between professional success and stagnation.<\/p>\n

Here are the top three ways women sabotage their own success:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Women Entrepreneurs Can Be Too Nice<\/p>\n

Women have a deeply rooted need to be liked and an intense aversion to being labeled the \u201cB-word\u201d. If this is the driving force behind your business decisions, then you\u2019re destined to sabotage your own success. Some women are paralyzed when a client is not 100% satisfied and complains about the product or service. Some women crumble after reading a bad review on social media. And some women retain poor-performing employees or vendors far too long because they fear being the \u201cbad guy (gal)\u201d.<\/p>\n

In business, and in life, not everyone is going to like you. The challenge as a successful female business owner is not allowing the desire to be liked highjack the need to make sound business decisions. Don\u2019t waste your precious time trying to woo, persuade, and convince that one client to love you, because there are plenty of other fish in the sea. Accept the fact that some people hide behind the anonymity of social media and make rude comments. And understand that sometimes you have to cut people lose in order to get ahead and be successful.<\/p>\n

Not being liked, or being called the \u201cB-word\u201d, may sting in the moment, but it pales in comparison to the pain of a failing business.<\/p>\n

2. Women Entrepreneurs Can Be Too Perfect<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t enough space to house all the women trapped inside the \u201cperfectionism prison\u201d. We live in the Martha Stewart era where everything needs to homemade and it needs to be perfect or it\u2019s simply a colossal failure. We bring the same mentality into our businesses.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve coached women who have missed out on major business opportunities, because the proposal was never quite perfect enough and they missed the deadline. Other women have obsessed endlessly over selecting the perfect color blue for their logo and website and their brilliant idea never really comes to fruition. And other women, recognizing how important a book or blog is to their marketability, are completely paralyzed by the fact that the words might not be perfect so they don\u2019t write a word.<\/p>\n

Businesses, trends, and opportunities move at the speed of light these days, and if you\u2019re stuck inside that \u201cperfectionism prison\u201d and unable to break free and capitalize on those opportunities, then you\u2019re sabotaging yourself and setting yourself up for failure. It\u2019s about progress not perfection. If you want to be successful, at some point you just need to hit \u201csend\u201d and move on.<\/p>\n

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