How many times have you daydreamed about being an entrepreneur? Never missing a little league game, enjoying all the benefits that come with being self employed. Perhaps you can see yourself sitting on the beach sipping Mojitas as your bank balance grows.
Reality check! Before you are off picking out your Malibu estate, you should ask yourself a very important question. Are you made to be an entrepreneur? Is it really in you to become wealthy?
In order to be positive you should see how you rate on the following five topics, Can you / will you:
-Press on when there is no gratification, results are slow to come? In the beginning the sheer rush of owning your own business will color the way you see and feel about everything. Adrenaline will pound through your veins for days or even a month.
Then reality sinks in and you are working just as many hours as you did for your boss simply trying to keep the business afloat and there is no excitement left. Perhaps the worst part of all is the fact that you are not seeing anything in the way of results. That means there is very little to motivate you and move your business forward.
Answer me just one question: Will you keep at something even if pay off is delayed? If you can honestly answer in the affirmative then you may have what it takes to be an entrepreneur.
-Walk away from a losing proposition? Anytime you spend days or weeks on a proposition it can feel like your baby. Honestly, it rather is, at least in a manner of speaking, I mean this is your brainchild.
No one is perfect and before you know it you can be neck deep in a bad concept that threatens the very life of your business. Is it in you to let go and move on to the next idea in spite of your emotional attachment to the plan? Do this part well and you are on your way to being a good entrepreneur.
-How is your self assurance? Your friends and even your family are going to have enough doubt to share. Laughing at you and calling your plans ridicules may be common place and if you buy into any of this you will never make it.
Are you self aware and sure of your talents and ideas? This is key to the entrepreneurial spirit.
-Have knowledge of the value of your products and service? A beginners biggest problem is knowing how to price their product or service. You will find them working hundreds of hours for peanuts. This occurs most frequently because of the value they put on the product or service they offer. If you tell yourself you would never pay x amount of dollars for something you are bound to price it too low to stay in business.
Remember you are not the target market, you are not the consumer. Since you are providing a needed service or product that is highly valued by consumers you should naturally be paid accordingly. Rest assured if you charge too much the customer will be quick to inform you.
Until that happens you should place a good value on the product or service you are offering. When you value what you are, offering you will be a good entrepreneur.
-Fix a Dilemma? This is the most important characteristic of all, are you the one to solve a problem?
Entrepreneurs must be problem solvers, there is simply no one else to solve them. This is your business, your baby if you will and the buck stops with you. All the corporate big dogs are gone and you are the boss!
There is of course an even bigger reason to solve problems, it great for business! In fact that is your business, when you can quickly pick out the problems others are dealing with and then solve them then you have what you need to be a good entrepreneur.
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