How many business opportunities should I be building? That’s a great question. What do you think the answer is going to be? Obviously, at least for Masa and myself, we believe you can do as many opportunities as you want. If you really, really want to be successful, I’ve never seen anyone that could do multiple opportunities at the same time and be successful in every single one of them. I can only talk from personal experience, obviously. If I was to say, based on my experience, how many opportunities should someone be building, I would highly recommend that you do one and one only. You do that with 200% of your focus and your energy.
Why? Well, as you guys understand, the more opportunities you try to do or to be involved in, the thinner you’re going to spread yourself, and the least energy you’re going to have. For Masa and myself, I would say one opportunity, do the very best that you can do, and always try to be better and better in what you do, at the end of the day.
When I look back and I see every single person that we know that had multiple six-figure, multiple seven, eight figure, multiple eight and nine figure earners, they all started the same way. It’s by building one single opportunity. Believe me, you can get to the seven figures just by building one opportunity. As you get to the seven figures, then you can start diversifying your risks, let’s say. The challenge you will have is that you will have so many opportunities coming to you that the hardest thing that you will ever do is to say “No” to all these opportunities so we can focus always in the one opportunity.
Now, as you’re building the one opportunity, what I would be thinking is, how can I systemize what I’m doing, so in the future, while I’m building the second opportunities, that is what you want to do, the first one doesn’t die down, if it makes any sense. What I’ve seen many times is people try to build multiple opportunities, and none of them take off, or they build the one opportunity, and when it’s really taking off, getting that momentum, they stop and they start focusing on other opportunities. What happens with this one is this one dies down. Basically, they stop the momentum that they were creating on this opportunity.
It’s like when you’re pushing a car and you’re getting a little bit of speed on it and suddenly you stop pushing that car, and it hasn’t got to a point where it’s self sustained. It doesn’t have enough speed to keep going without momentum. The car kind of stops and in the meantime, you’re somewhere else or doing something else. When you come back to that opportunity, you need to start putting effort all over again.
Going back to the question again, should I build more than one opportunity? Or, how many opportunities should I be building? My answer is one. Do one, do it to the best of your ability. It’s going to be, I promise you, it’s going to be good enough, only if you make it happen. If you are 100%, 200% focused on making it happen. One opportunity, one at a time.
