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Hope is everything. The force that keeps you moving when you feel like throwing in the towel, and calling it all quit. Almost everyone has been there, where you feel like you can't take it anymore, and all you want to do is give up. It's a horrible feeling. Within the first few years of starting a business, there's high tendency that you'll experience such a feeling. This is simply because it's always very tough at the beginning, but things get better with time.

Without hope in something a human being will feel so helpless, powerless, in fact some may say that a person that has lost hope is as good as dead. That might be an exaggeration, but if we think deeply about it, a hopeless person has nothing to live for. And his/her hopelessness will be reflected on every aspect of their lives, as they'll look unkept, physically and mentally. That's not a situation that one should wish for anybody.

As an entrepreneur, if you ever find yourself in such a hopeless situation, what you really have to do is spend some hours and think thoroughly and critically about your whole position. And try as much as possible to find just one single thing that you can be hopeful about. If you search hard enough you'll see that there's something that can keep that candle of hope you have burning.

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In such situations, usually the entrepreneur loses all sense of logic, and becomes very emotional, because he/she is very hurt by the turn out of events. As difficult as it may be, your only chance of pulling out strong is finding something to hold on to. And ensuring you use your logical mind to find real solutions. Rather than have your emotions overwhelm you. When you've found that one thing that you can place your hope on, keep on reminding yourself of it.

Another very important thing is the kind of people you have around you at this point. If you have pessimistic people, they'll compound your situation, and say all the worst things, that we make you more unrest. You have to know people in you life that always encourage you, these people could be anchors at that point. Even if they're far away, you can take a day or two to go spend time with them, or make a call to them. Tell them how you're feeling, a good word from them can change your mindset. And give you hope again.

Most times, these are the things that separate the successful entrepreneurs from the unsuccessful entrepreneurs. A man that can keep his cool in time of trouble and find ways to fix the issues logically and rationally is the man that wins at the end of the day. You can't give up, because things are tough. Don't let the situation overwhelm your thinking. Search for something to put your hope in. And keep on reminding yourself of that thing. The dark clouds will pass, and a bright lovely sunlight will come again.

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