When you have no goals or aspirations it’s hard to make anything of legacy from your life.
With the world moving at such a quick pace, thinking outside the box can seem a bit overwhelming.

So much uncertainty in your personal life with your family and friends allows you to believe you will have time to pursue, or yet consider, what your life dream and goal is – later.

When but you consider when will you have time? Think about the direction of your life and where you will be in 6 months in the future… if you don’t know then lets assume in the same place maybe? What about in 6 years? 30? Is your path ever going to have the time and demand you make it a good time?

Coming out of your box can be tough. Breaking old habits, addictions, and perceived truths appear impossible on occasion. We all have it tough, and someone has it better, someone has it worse.
Believing your interests are valuable interests to others is one of the first hurdles to get past.
This gets a lot easier when you have a place that feels like a home where you can relax – away from the walls that protect and encase you. A place to dream your dreams, and a state of mind where you believe you are worth achieving your dreamy success.

Is it silly to think you can make money doing things you feel are fun and exciting? …pushing your limits in almost comfortable, but really exciting ways?

(Where there is a will there’s a way)

When you believe your interests are worth pursuing because they are valuable just the way they are, and you remember a month ago in the future that last month, the month you’re about to live, is so much better then what last month was. And you take action more then before, because you now know better – that your interests – are more valuable to enough people to provide you the means, to make your real interests, your way of making your life as successful as those dreams you have when life is perfect. With more abundance then you need, but that’s just what you’re worth. Design your life when you’re day dreaming. When your back in the real world, take your design of a dream life and execute it with the passion your life is worth. When juice is the worth the squeeze the rewards for hard work can provide a life full of riches.

Take that extra money and buy a homeless person a house if it makes you feel better… hey, maybe I should do that too….

In a society that is continually over medicated for social problems where the doctors are more interested in the kickbacks for their drug prescriptions then the care of their patients, People need a real place to figure out what it is that’s creating the uneasiness they feel is in their life.

The statistics show that the inhalation of drugs like Effexor and Paxil have been on the rise for years, but so has the number of people claiming to have abnormalities.  If these rates continue soon there will be more “abnormal” people then normal ones.  Of course that will make the people that now appear well adjusted, look like they’re the crazy ones because they are now the minority.

And something about that just seems wrong.

I feel the one of the main issues with people and their outlook on life is caused by all the mixed social messages making you believe immediate gratification is better. How many get rich quick schemes are out there, or 3 min miracle products?

This pure crap is preventing people from finding their deeper meaning to their lives, which is in turn creating confusing thoughts that rail between social norms and what is inherently believed to be ‘right’.  The recent economic collapse is a testament to individual greed of corporate crooks allowed by general society by sheer laziness to speak up for truth.

Yes, I believe too many people live shallow unfulfilled lives.  The incredible successes of reality T.V. I think proves how much people long to have a life they want… the lazy way is to watch someone else’s life and complain about their own. The fulfilling way is to turn off the brain sucking T.V. and go create the life you want.

It’s that easy, but if you don’t believe you can do it, you wont.  It’s that last past that is self destructing.  Believing in yourself seems to be a lost idea we need to bring back to the forefront of consciousness

How to Become a Entrepreneur

Commit To Being A Leader

Think about every successful business person you know. One thing the have in common is they are fairly well known and respected in their industry.
Leadership itself is a very complicated journey and you need a method to express it with. Staring a new business is a great way to shine and it’s time position yourself as the leader in all that you do.

The largest characteristics of successful entrepreneurs is having truth and integrity as their core. Simply doing what you say you’re going to do, when you said you’re going to do it, will allow you to been as a leader that can be trusted.  Trust is essential for so many reasons.

By being the best, you will become the “go-to guy”, and that’s when the real shift between beginning a new business and running a successful business  happens.

Don’t let leadership scare  you.
There are lots of leaders in every industry.
Most have great clientele they enjoy working with.
If you do what you love while maintaining your personality, you’ll attract those who require what you have to offer while both of you enjoy working together.

Understand Your Market BEFORE you have a product

This is were you stop thinking.
There are many cliche’s are about what making an assumption can do.
Don’t make assumptions about your market!

The success path then learning how to become an entrepreneur involves understanding who will give you money, and for what purpose.   You can not just assume that if you want it, others will, or if you think it’s a great idea, that other people will too.

Research and test.
Research and test.
Research and test.

Walk around and ask people if they have any issues in the area you would like to start a business in.  Better yet, make an online survey and drive some traffic to it.   Find out what they like about the subject, what could be better, or different.  THEN, and only then should you be working on the product or offer for them.  After all, it’s these people you would like to sell to, so they must be interested in what your offering, and it needs to be different or have a higher perceived value then what’s already available.

If price is the main issue, ensure you can profit from doing it for less money.
If service is the issue, then ensure your customer service is the best.
If value is the concern (not price), discover what motivations appeal to these people.

This is perhaps the most vital side of business.
Without a market that wants you, you don’t have any business
Having customers you like (and like you) will make working hard more enjoyable.
And encase you missed it, research and test your market – continually.

Leverage Your Resources

There are only so many hours a day you can work.
If you want to grow your business, say into an empire, you must know how (and what) can be done better differently.

Thinking you can go out and solicit one hundred new clients a day, then go home and fill the sales request while answering client phone calls all in a hurry and stilling thinking you have some time to sleep without getting burnt out, is just silly.

You have to learn how to outsource.
This is the gold when learning how to become a entrepreneur!

Take the parts of the business you don’t like doing, but must be done, and get some other person to do them.   Take the parts you sorta like but have no time to do and get some other person to do those tasks.  Then ultimately, find the tasks you do that don’t earn cash (but have to be done), and outsource those too.

So what’s left?
A tiny and manageable set of tasks you like doing that make heaps of cash.
I thinks that’s what’s called entrepreneurial dream, right?

How Do You do this?   Easy – Google.
Search for “outsource” + “job for other person”
example: “outsource virtual assistant” or “outsource article writing”
Research who you want to work with – there are hundreds of sources.
My personal favorite is oDesk.com because you can outsource almost any task you need through their global network of freelancers.

Surround Yourself With Successful People

This is a recommendation from each single successful business owner I know … You are who you hang around with. Plain and Simple.
If you are serious about becoming well off, the easiest way to get there is to pass the time with other well off people.
The explanation is quite simple.
You develop similar habits of your friends, and if you goal is to make $100k a month, how can someone making $40k a year help you?

So the solution to this problem is simply to find some friends that do make the sort of money you would like.   This can be hard at first, but there are some actually straightforward strategies to reach this.

Go to a local toastmasters, or Chamber of Commerce meeting.
Find an organization in the field you need to enter in to that supports the entrepreneurs.
Find a mentor!

There are several ways to a mentor and you will need the influence of these people you want to become. You can use Google here too!
Find an authority blog on the topic of choice and see if there is a program in there to meet people involved.   Several Forums have great industry specific mentors available.
You can pay someone to coach you through it if you are having difficulty with this. This Favorite mentoring program to learn How to become an Entrepreneur.

Take Massive action

At the end of the day, action is the only step that really matters.
You can’t wait until you know everything you need to know, because you never will.

Massive action is where you learn the puzzle pieces that video and text are simply unable to deliver. It reveals your weaknesses and strengths in profound ways and provides the truly valuable insights about who and what you are.

If you are not sure or confident about some concepts, hopefully your mentor can assist your understand understanding weather it’s right or wrong, but it’s taking action that will teach you how to make it right – and get results.  And many people have succeeded without  mentor, they that’s a harder path with more ‘learning experiences’

There are many tasks that are hard to do at first.
Get over it.
You cannot be a perfectionist until you have already tasted success.

Even then it would be overrated because people are attracted by personality, often seen as minor imperfections.  It’s through your failures that you become the person capable of making profound decisions that brings great profits.

To remain a successful entrepreneur you need to continually educate yourself.
This means you will always be learning new things, taking action on new idea’s, and finding new ways to fail you never expected.

Just a few years ago even Donald Trump nearly went bankrupt!
He’s a brilliant businessman, so how did this happen?
Something changed that he didn’t expect.  It happens to the best, will happen to you (though maybe not in the same way),  and needs to be accepted and embraced.

If done without the paralyzing fear factor, your success will happen.
Fail fast, fail forward, and never stop taking the next step.

Hope this helps place you mind in the right place so when you start your new business you hit the Ground running!

Persistence is the fuel that drives your will power to accomplishment through industrious hard work even when you feel like quitting..
What is meant is persistence of action.
If you continually think about something, without action, it’s wasted energy.

Your willingness to overcome obstacles preventing non-actions of laziness,  procrastination, and the temptations of less meaningful immediate gratification will be the test of your persistence.  Your ability to persevere and circumvent self-doubt along with the several incarnations of fear, is a good measure of this.

Perseverance is the endurance that wins the battle.
As when running a marathon, persistence in action will also start providing it’s own motivation.  When you accomplish the smaller tasks of making it to the next check point, you will have more reason to continue to the end knowing you have made it that far already.

When strive to complete any meaningful goal, such as running a marathon, you motivation will come and go like spectators along the path.  Sometimes you can get encouragement from those around you and sometimes you are left to your own devices to make it through.  But it’s not your motivation that gets you to the finish line, that only got you to start the race.  It’s your persistence of action that carries you to the end.

But persistence is not stubbornness.  If you fall and break your leg, it would be silly to continue running to the end.  You do need to update and revise you goals as required.

When I younger I had a goal of making money with real estate and at the age of 22 bought my first house before I ever owned a car.  I just couldn’t understand the point of throwing away my money on rent.  Since then I have acquired additional properties and rented them out.  But that was some time ago and my interest in Real Estate is no longer an inspiration.  Sure, I still own the houses as they are a good investment that provide a small steady income, but I’ve become much more interested in providing assistance to help people help themselves. So I’ve all but abandoned previous goals in that field and the closest thing I do with houses now work with real estate agents to improve their business models and marketing efforts.

Years ago a friend of mine was on a road trip from Toronto Ontario to somewhere near Calgary Alberta, about a 20 hour straight drive.  Along the way they purchased a couple new tapes from a bulk bin to get them though the dead radio areas along the drive.   From this experience I had the following line of inspiration shared with me:

“To create, you must destroy”

You only have so much room in your life to make meaningful things happen.
If you encounter any sort of personal growth you will not be the same person you were last year, or last month even. To make room for your new aspirations, you have to learn how to abandon projects that only serve to slow down your progress.

This was particularly difficult for me.  I’ve always been an idea driven guy who has several projects on the go.  Adding to this, my mom is a pack rat, my Grandfather is pack rat, and I developed habits that caused my basement to be filled with 15 old printers I could re-purpose the internal motors and controls for, 12 microwaves because the power transformers inside them are expensive to buy but easy to find on the curve (that was for a home arc welder I never finished), and several other items.

The time came when I needed to make better progress. That progress didn’t happen until I threw away all the idea’s of projects I liked, but was never driven to complete.  This allowed me far better concentration to do things like write these articles for you with a much clearer head, and the time to do them effectively.

The value true of persistence is not found by clinging on to the past, but by maintaining a clear vision of your goals continually refining your path as you improve your ability to accomplish the values that drive you.

As you develop personally, your ability to clearly understand your mission will improve. This in turn allows for more effective actions to be pursued, forcing you to abandon ideas that you realize are not as well aligned as you first thought.

Industry, or being industrious, is the action of doing hard work. It’s the time

you spend for the process of making things happen — Being diligent.

Chores at home like making your meals, cleaning the dishes, then putting the dishes away is not hard work, but it’s the work required to get required goals accomplished.  You just have to do them over and over again each day as part of your personal healthy maintenance.  Other “home work” would be cleaning, laundry, staying organized, paying taxes and other bills, along with many other duties.  Then there are the several tasks you need to preform at work, with the children and spouse or lover. These tasks need to be preformed just sustain yourself.

You need to put in the time where it is needed. If you don’t make the time to ensure these tasks are done you can really make a mess of things – a messy house, a hungry stomach, troubled relationships, just to name a few. Larger examples would be the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage disaster that stared in the United States and spread across the world.   Big or small, it’s about putting in the time where it need to be put, doing the correct tasks that need to be done.
Not thinking about them, not hoping someone else will do them, or ignoring them hoping they will go away – that will almost always make it worse.

Sometimes you know what needs to be done, sometimes you don’t.  The first step will be to figure out what the first tasks are.  If you know, then do it. If you don’t, educate yourself to figure that out.  This may be as easy as making a phone call or searching for something on the web.  Sometimes you need to get a professional involved.  But not doing these tasks will certainly prevent the successful accomplishments you seek.

Sometimes little tasks that may not be difficult lingers around too long.

When I bought my first house there was a very tiny half-bath in the basement, with a rough-in for a shower.  I wanted a shower there and quickly realized the reason it was only a rough-in was because of a true lack of forethought with the original design — where the plumbing was there wasn’t enough space for even the smallest shower.  I knocked out a section of wall and re-framed it so there would be room.  Then it sat for 10 YEARS because I didn’t want to deal with it any more.  Every time I was downstairs I would be reminded about this shortcoming.  I figured the toilet and sink worked, and there was a shower upstairs, so did it really need to be done?  Well, it certainly looked worse then the (mostly) finished smaller bathroom that came with the house.

It wasn’t going to cost anything other then time to complete this project, all the tools and materials were purchased years ago …the can of rubber cement for the shower walls was so old it was very rusty on the outside.  Finally, it took all of 2 days to finish it.  The hardest part of getting it done was starting again.  After all, it’s not very difficult to measure, cut, and glue things – children do that in kindergarten for fun!
(As an aside, it was writing the article on hard work that finally motivated me to get this it done!)

Time is constant, but different  people will use their time with different effectiveness.  It’s amazing how many people will spend their money to buy a faster more effective computer (and all the time they worked to earn that money), but pay little attention to being personally more effective.

What slows people down the most is their ability to manage themselves. Fancy technology will only serve to mask bad habits of the ineffective.  Truly effective people can use old methods and still achieve their desired result, but the technology will serve to leverage their abilities to far surpass what they would otherwise accomplish..

This has been a long and difficult journey for me, and it’s still not finished (nor do I think it ever should be).   I’m really stubborn  – - just over 15 years ago I knew what my destination was but didn’t know how to get there.   I was surrounded by people who provided well intentioned advice but didn’t know my goals or aspirations.  Only I could truly know those.  It was through searching for the answers in several different places and then finally taking massive action to achieve them, that has allowed me to taste what my dreams are made of.
Part of why it took me so long to get here was because I would let too many defeats bring me down.  It was learning to accept these as “the learning curve”, and when I could finally embrace imperfection as the road to perfection, I gained the strength to push on through adversity.

You too will face challenges that test everything you are made of.  And it’s how you accept and conquer these challenges that will build your character to what you desire.

Time is invaluable because there is no way to purchase more. But by developing your personal industrious nature you will need less time to do the things that have to be done, allowing you more time for the things you want to get done.  Reversing this order will have backward results, and something will have to give.

Personal productivity can eliminate the time conflicts between work, family, friends, and fun — time you can spend time to deepen relationships, improve your health, or make additional contributions to society.

Planning and being focused on the big picture are the keys here.  Hard work and working smart and not the same thing, and both need to be managed well be to effective.  Though industry will provide the method to achieve your goals, you must first ensure that the steps you take are the correct ones.
When I doubt, ask.
When there is no one to ask, just do what you think is best an accept learning from mistakes.
Lack of action leads to lack of results.
Strong work ethics and determination to take action, over time, will always get strong results.