Do NOT assume anything - 28/101 Entrepreneur Mistakes & Lessons

In business you want to minimise your risks. Taking risks can be expensive, time consuming or fatal.When I first started writing books like this I just started with the ones I thought up first, thinking that people will find them once I give them a smart title and topic. This has had some success, albeit it is too early in the game to know how right I am.But, after I did a little bit of thinking and research, I decided to change the order slightly.This book is a book that I think people would find interesting and be searching for. Certainly people that have only just started out their entrepreneurial journey would get a lot of value from it and find it useful.Because I decided to do a bit of research and thinking- I'm saving time and energy. I'm planning ahead.When it comes to business, especially business decisions, you have to verify the choices.You cannot just assume that something will work. Whether a book, blog, video, product, strategy etc.You have to do as much research as possible, so as to increase the chances of success. You don't know what you don't know and the more you can figure out and plan ahead, the more success you'll achieve.Let's look at the world 'assume' and break it down. 'Assume' makes an ' out of and '. When your strategy relies on guessing, then you need to stop and start planning.You have trust and verify that what you are doing will work, or is worthwhile. You cannot allow decisions to be based on assumptions.Gut feelings, especially experienced peoples' gut feeling does play a role and can work. But if you can verify the numbers, then you have much greater chance of success.Verify whatever you need to! Never just assume!There are another 100 mistakes that I made here.