Have a successful attitude

If you are a pessimist, owning your own business is not for you. A business is most often a roller coaster ride with its ups and downs, twists and turns. Usually people don't realize this until they have their own business.

Sometimes the only thing that will keep you going is hope. I believe that a necessary ingredient to a successful business is optimism. When you take your beaded jewelry to a new craft show and don't even make your booth fee, you need a reason to continue.

If you are not prepared ahead of time to accept the fact that there will be ups and downs, you will easily be discouraged. When you try to sell your jewelry and it does not sell, you need to understand that that is just a part of doing business.

Most importantly, learn from your experience. We can learn more from disappointment than from our successes. When things are going well, we tend not to change. Change is good in business so accept that everything is not always going to work out but in the long run, if you stay positive, and make the necessary changes, you will succeed.