5 tips you would tell your past self

Despite the fact that undertaking has benefits such as be your own boss, set your own hours and do what you like best, the path is not rosy. Many entrepreneurs define it as being on a roller coaster, since nothing is written.

Achieving success is not easy, because the process leads to falls and make decisions that are not always the best. Many say that if they had known the best decision, the road would have been easier and they would probably have reached the top of the business in less time.

Turning back time is impossible, but find out what mistakes they made entrepreneurs and how they solved it can help you make a better decision.

In a chat with Nazareth Black, CEO of Zacua, a Mexican electric car company, he shared what he would say to his past self.

Nazareth is in charge of the first Mexican electric car company, she has always lived under various stigmas from society: being a woman, being a mother at an early age, seeking to innovate and venture into a sector that for years has been dominated by men.

Despite coming from a low-income family, he always knew that he did not want to work for anyone, which is why he decided to start a business.

His first venture was Car Fast, a car marketplace, with which he sought revolutionize the industry car sales. Later he created Zacua, a company that assembles electric cars in Puebla and that incorporates women in the production of the vehicles.

The advices

The entrepreneur says that if she could go back in time and give five pieces of advice to her younger self, they would be the following:

1. The intellect always leaves. Get ready to be the best at what you do.
2. everything goes up and everything goes down. Stability does not exist, you are going to fall and start over, this helps you to have more mental stability and get up faster.
3. See uncertainty as a guarantee of success. When you are an entrepreneur you have many difficulties because you do not know what is going to happen. Use uncertainty to your advantage.
4. Patience. The top is only the beginning, be patient because you will realize that the top is only one step, this will help you to be more stable. Learn to master yourself.
5. Prepare, aim and fire. When you are an entrepreneur you are ecstatic, but you need a business plan, otherwise you will not know where to go at what time and how you are going to achieve it.

Nazareth specifies that entrepreneurship is also a way for women to be free, because by having financial freedom they will not depend on anyone and will achieve their dreams.

“Being an entrepreneur is the path or key to financial independence, which is what is needed as a channel to be free. When you have financial independence, you can make decisions about how to go, where to go, with whom to live and what to do, because it allows you to make better decisions that go according to your wishes.