Most people quit. They quit because either they don't get the results they want fast enough. Or they have too many things going on and they flit between projects. Or the size of their expectation doesn't match the size of the effort that they are prepared to put in.

But you are not most people. You are different. That's why you're reading this post. You think you just might've found the project to get those results. And you're prepared to put in the effort, you have put in some already. 

You need to keep going because you've lifted the lid on the cookie jar. You've thought about what life would be like if you could get your thing going. Pyschologically you've come too far to settle for a job doing something you don't want to do, going somewhere you don't want to go with people you don't want to see.

But how do you keep going?  How do you get unstuck when you haven't made the progress you want to make? How do you keep going? The answer is in three parts:
 
This is part a: Patience, do one thing well (focus), massive action
 
This is part b: Chunk it, set goals, measure
 
This is part c: Persistence, fun and connection

This is part d: If you want to change the way you earn money, you have to change the way you think.

You know what you need to do.

You'll like this one. Look out for a nice tree shot.

Yes THE Einstein. He knew one or two things about life, creativity, business and a whole lot more. But the question is, why does E=MC squared? Anyone reading this who has been to one of our workshops will have sat in excruciating pain whilst at this point I play hangman.

Well I got a D in Physics so rather than muse about the energy and light and unfathomable crap (important crap but gobbledeegook to me) I took the letters and substituted them to help start-ups. A kind of start-up business success formula.

E=ENTERPRISE - random aside - the word enterprise doesn't directly relate to business although it has been hijacked by successive governments to get people starting businesses. It means to undertake a difficult task with boldness and adventurous spirit. I'll say.

M=MOTIVATION - if you wake up tomorrow morning excited to work on your business, chances are you're gonna be ok. If you'd rather set fire to your eyeballs than make a sale, then Houston - we have problem, to coin a phrase.

C=CONFIDENCE - at PopUp, one of our principles is to "spend as much time building your confidence as you do building your business. Imagine this: two planet Earth's. Planet no.1 is where the confident people live. That's where the fun is, where the parties are and where the opportunities are in abundance. Unlike planet Earth number two, where the not so confident people live. There's not as much fun, nowhere near as much cash and definitely not as many opportunities.

As far as we know (unless you're a Star Trek fan) there is only one planet Earth. Which means if we can go about our day full of confidence, then opportunities will be flying out of the walls to meet us.

For all of these reasons, we show people how to make money doing what they love to do. They're more motivated, they grow in confidence but they spend more time in their business because it's what they love.

These are the foundations. We don't add the skills and the strategy until we've got the foundations right otherwise, in business terms, we're buggered.

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We might all be just one tail whip away from greatness. More on that shortly. What I'm not going to do is analyse the business model of the skate park. That might be a bit near the bone for the owners of the one I was hanging in yesterday.

What's more interesting is the entrepreneurship lessons that can be learned by watching the skaters (scooterers doesn't look quite right as a word) do their stuff. I observed three teenagers make massive progress, grow in confidence and have a great time while they're doing their thing with their scooters. Even if their tricks made me feel a bit sick - especially when my kids started tying to copy them. Here's why:

• Healthy competition to see who could execute the best tricks
• Learning from each other as they grew enough in confidence to push harder and try new tricks
• Celebrating effort as well as achievement
• Landing like a bucket of bones got as much of a supportive cheer as when the tricks worked
• Drinking loads of water
• Everyone proud of their scooter, but it did take a bit of a battering when their tricks went wrong

In most western nations, entrepreneurship is taught as a solo sport (soapbox warning). However whilst as individuals we read, learn and strategise the most overlooked ingredient of success is peer support and the activity missing from the daily routine of most of us striving for success is to celebrate. Celebrate the achievements whether successful or not. Well done you. Keep going. Most people never take action and you're doing it. You rock.

Now read this again and substitute the word scooter with 'business' and 'tricks' with 'ideas' and you might get what you need.

The tail whip could bruise your ankles, but it's worth trying while your friends are there to support, whether to applaud, replicate and improve upon or maybe call the ambulance.

Quite a lot.  A lot more than I thought possible.  So my boy's scooter goes missing, probably liberated after being left outside our house in the evening.  For the benefit of those without young kids, in 2016 when you're 7, your scooter is everything.  It ranks right up there with oxygen, YouTube and cookies.  But rather than get angry with the world and mope about the house (that was my my role) he asked himself these questions: