What does it take to be your own boss? What does it take to be an Entrepreneur? That word, Entrepreneur, scares people. It’s a big fancy word, for big fancy people. It has a mystique about it, an association of wealth and power. French is like that, over inflated and important sounding. Really, all it means is one who undertakes, or manages an enterprise. Usually it’s associated with running a business. The actual meaning is less impressive and much less frightening sounding. The reason I go to the trouble of explaining this is to illustrate the fact that once you know what a thing is, it’s a lot less intimidating than it first seems. Running a business is the same. It sounds intimidating and incredibly hard, but the truth is, with the Internet, running a business can be no more frightening than sending email.
There are companies set up to do all the heavy lifting for you. You’ve probably gotten email from a lot of these companies telling you that you can be rich in as little as 24 hours. Truth be told, most of these companies are looking to line their own pockets at your expense. There are exceptions, and they can be found with some searching. Entrepreneurs are driven That brings me to the first attribute any Entrepreneur needs, drive. Anyone who really wants to be their own boss is driven to do it. You don’t just wake up one day and decide, ‘Hey, I think I’ll start a business, let me check my email for one’.
A real Entrepreneur wants to be in charge of their own destiny. They need to make the decisions for their life and their work. They understand that they will never get the money they deserve, working for someone else, and that the higher the risk, the higher the reward. These are people who know what they want, even if they don’t yet know how they can get it. That’s fine, you don’t have to know the exact process to getting what you want, you just have to know what it is that you want. You learn the process as you go. It’s all in the details Knowing what you want is more than simply saying that you want a lot of money. Everyone says they want to have a lot of money, Entrepreneurs say exactly how much money they want to have, and when they want it by. That goes for more than just money. Entrepreneurs specify exactly what they want, no matter what it is, down to the last detail. Continue reading »