Why Be An Entrepreneur?

• BEACUSE I WANT A HUGE HOUSE AND MILLIONS OFF $$$ A YEAR!
• BECAUSE I WANT A HUGE YAUGHT, AND A FACE FULL OF PLASTIC WHEN IM 50!

Both of the above would be nice, well apart from the face full of plastic, that was just a joke haha………… anyway(tough crowd;)), what is an entrepreneur anyway?, here is the definition from Wiki.

An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company, enterprise, or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome. The term is a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to the type of personality who is willing to take upon herself or himself a new venture or enterprise and accepts full responsibility for the outcome. In common understanding it is taken as describing a dynamic personality.

In that piece form wiki, do you see the word “rich“ once??, nope, so why when you tell people you are an entrepreneur you get the funniest looks and questions from people, like “Oh and how are you going to get rich”, or they just laugh at you, even to the point where I don’t use that word in conversations anymore. The funniest thing in the wiki piece above, an entrepreneur is also “a person who has possession over a company, enterprise, or venture” , so really, the people who laugh at me are really laughing at themselves!, damn business owners!!!;).

Why I’m An Entrepreneur

Not for any reasons above, although millions would be nice right, but my main reason is the fact that it it allows me to take more control over my future, i’ll try to explain that a bit more… As you know I also work full-time in retail, so I have a “day job”, my entrepreneur projects are done for as many hours as I can put in around my job, but if I did not have these projects I would just have the one full time job, safe and assured right?.

Nope!, not anymore it seems, with so many people around you losing jobs/stocks/pensions, its scary to think that even the job you think would always be safe, is no longer that way, we have no control over that either and thats the main thing about being an entrepreneur, you have so much more control, if something happens with the economy you can adapt to that, because you’ve built up a business before, you can do it again, on the other hand if you’ve only ever worked in retail, what can you do?, look for another job that just isn’t there?, you have no idea where to go if that happens, so is it really a safe bet to have a “day job”?.

Rewards a plenty

I like the term rewards!;), but just imagine yourself being able to bring in enough money to be financially free, you wont get their working in retail let me tell you;). The thing is you are expected to work till your 65ish, then retire and live off a pesion(if you still have one), but by becomming an entreprenur it gives you the oppertunity to try something else in that time, you can do it part time while you work at your other job too, if something takes off, then move into it full time, it gives you so many more options to choose from.

There is always that hope of the big pay-day too, this gives you incentives and motivation to carry on with your various projects, the only incentive I have when I go to my day job is knowing that it pays towards the stinking cat litter I need to change everyday!!!, but at least I have an incentive, on the serious side, at the very least it gives you some hope, some hope that while your stacking shelves or working on greasy cars, at home you have a small empire that could one day make it huge!, so huge that the office sign on the door will be changed to “belly of the beast”, or the computer you work at, can be called “command central”, you can take on the world, and the cats stinky litter all by yourself!!.

One Dollar At A Time

Thats what you need above, just one of them to get started, then many many more!, but as I’ve said in past posts, build up slowly, and give yourself small targets!, and no more perfect a target is $1!!, because if you can make just one of these, you have already broken down the biggest starting hurdle their is, until you reach this goal, your mind will only see it as a game, and only when you make this dollar, it gives you some realization that yes, I can do this!.

Think of it in these terms….. You go fishing for the first time, rod, hook, bait, what do you do?, so someone comes along and says “all you need to do is put bait on hook, rod in hand, then bait and hook it water”, then walks off, so thats just what you do, you could stand there for ages right, thinking its a waste of time!?, until someone comes over to you and says “Hey weirdo thats someones pool!”, then they direct you to the lake not 10 feet away where you catch plenty of fish!, and thats just like being an entrepreneur, you may have some tools, you may have a bit of know how?, but if you don’t expirence something from it, it all seems to be a big waste of time, but if you try it and listen, you get to catch some fish, and after that first fish you know what its like to have done it, so your mind starts to say “Hey I like this, now if I caught one doing this, I will catch more if I try that too”, and thats your aim!.

Thanks once again for all the support given to me over the past week, love to hear from you all!!

Go catch those FISH!!!!!….. or Dollars might be a better target, but ONLY ONE!.