????本文與《創業者》雜志（Entrepreneur）合作。下文最初發表于Entrepreneur.com。

????若想做一名成功的創業者，你必須培養自信。唯有具備韌性、信念與決心，創業才能成功。要創建一家公司并使其安然度過前18個月，創業者必須避免一些糟糕的領導者經常犯的錯誤：

????1. 猜疑自己和員工

????真正的自信源自對團隊和自己的信任。創業者應該保證足夠長的招聘過程，以找到并留住合適的人才，因為人才關乎公司成敗。許多雇主現在提供入職前假期，或根據第一個項目來聘用員工，在確定員工真正適合公司之后再提供全職崗位。

????提供有趣、有保障的工作環境，以及豐厚的福利、利潤分享和新技術，讓員工知道你欣賞他們，同時也可以幫助員工以更飽滿的情緒創造公司的未來。

????如果你發現你開始對自己或員工產生猜疑，立即糾正這種錯誤的態度，以免動搖自己的信心。

????2. 妥協于所謂的優先事項

????在創業過程中，優秀的員工是關鍵，但許多創業者太過于忙碌公司的運營，從而忽視了生活中對他們非常重要的其他事情。創建公司是他們最關心的事情，但是，如果不采取重視的態度，并安排出專門的時間，他們與朋友和家人的關系會在不知不覺中變淡。

????這同樣適用于愛好與“自我關懷”時間：創業者不僅要計劃工作項目或會議，也要安排冥想、鍛煉身體、閱讀和其他享樂時間（即便只是花幾個小時瀏覽ESPN或其他新聞網站）。波特蘭心理治療診所（Portland Psychotherapy Clinic）發現，個人愛好比金錢更能讓一個人幸福。從事這些愛好，并抽出時間陪伴至愛親朋，可以減輕壓力，提高自信。

????3. 拒絕學習新技能

????成功自信的創業者必須適應公司當前的需求。雖然你可能需要一位程序員或設計師來修改網站，但這有可能超出預算，或者他們正在從事其他項目，脫不開身。這種情況需要自信的創業者不懼怕學習新事物，例如編程或圖形設計。Skillshare、Lynda、CodeAcademy、UniversalClass和Treehouse等網站（或當地社區學院）可以幫助創業者不用花大價錢便可學到新的技能。

????4. 過于關注外部評價

????聽到媒體或其他人對你公司或產品的正面反饋，確實能帶來持續的滿足感，但自信的創業者和公司沒必要沾沾自喜，聽到負面反饋時也不應該妄自菲薄。

????專注于內部目標和理念，才是創建公司的關鍵，所以，外部反饋確實是完善產品的有效途徑，但它不應該左右你的工作或毀掉你的生活。許多公司老板只關心別人的看法，結果妨礙了公司的創意過程，反過來導致他們的產品出現問題。

????This post is in partnership with Entrepreneur. The article below was originally published at Entrepreneur.com.

????If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to bleed confidence. Starting something on your own takes tenacity, faith and determination to make it work. To have a business that makes it past the first 18 months, these qualities of poor leaders are certainly going to be on your list of things to avoid:

????1. Second guess themselves and their employees

????True confidence comes from being able to trust your team and yourself. Make sure your hiring process is long enough to find and keep the right people, as this can make or break your company. Many employers are now offering pre-cations or hiring employees for an initial first project to make sure they are a good fit before hiring them full time.

????Offering a fun and secure work environment with great benefits, profit sharing and new technology can let employees know you appreciate them while also helping them become more emotionally invested in the future of the company.

????If you find yourself second guessing yourself or your employees, take the time to fix it before your confidence becomes too shaken.

????2. Compromise their priorities

????When you are building a business, great employees are key, but many entrepreneurs get so tied up in making their business work that they forget about what else in their lives are important to them. Building a business is their main concern, but relationships with friends and family can slip through the cracks if they don’t make it a priority to schedule time for them.

????This also goes for hobbies and “self-care” time: meditation, exercise, reading and other things done for enjoyment (even if it’s just browsing on ESPN or some other news site for a few hours) deserve to be scheduled just as much as work projects or meetings. It has been shown that hobbies make people more happy than money, according to the Portland Psychotherapy Clinic. Confidence is boosted when stress is reduced through hobbies and time with loved ones.

????3. Refuse to learn new skills

????The confident and successful entrepreneur has to adapt to their business’s current needs. While you may need a programmer or designer to make website changes, it may not be in the budget, or they might stuck working on a different project. Instances like this require the confident entrepreneur to put aside any trepidation at learning something new, such as coding or graphic design. Websites such as Skillshare, Lynda, CodeAcademy, UniversalClass and Treehouse (or local community colleges) can help entrepreneurs learn new skills without a high monetary cost.

????4. Focus on external validation

????It can be endlessly satisfying to hear positive feedback from the media or others about your company or products, but confident entrepreneurs and companies shouldn’t take it less (or more) seriously than negative feedback.

????Focusing on internal goals and ideas is what built the company in the first place, so while external feedback is a great way to improve a product, it shouldn’t have the power to completely overhaul how you work or ruin your day. Too many business owners focus on what others are thinking and it ends up impeding their creative process, which in turn causes their products to suffer.