Unreasonable Entrepreneur
Your business inspiration idea comes from you. It’s your passion and you are the player. You are the unique person that plays the biggest part in your success as an entrepreneur. Here’s how to find and develop your business inspiration.
Start with a dream, then visualize, plan, believe and than act! Setting a goal is not difficult. You know what your dream is this will give you the inspiration for a business. Just write it down and visit it often. You know it says, “I want to be the boss, I want to own my own business”.
You’re sick and tired of building someone else’s dream. What you’re doing is creating a habit. You are building your self-confidence. You are creating your own inspiration for you to own your own business. The mind is a powerful stimulator. Our mind is both our master and our servant. It will do what ever we convince it to do. It will help you solve difficult challenges, if you tell it often enough and seriously enough. It will create what ever you want to make into a habit, including success.
The next step to developing your inspiration for a business is to set a time limit for your goal. Today is as good as it gets. Start at noon today. A goal without a time limit is like a fishing pole without any bait. It has potential but probably won’t catch anything. Your goal is your working plan in progress and your inspiration.
Your mission should be to gain as much knowledge as you can. Study the internet, read books, talk with people in the industry you’re interested in, this will help give you the inspiration to take that first step towards your dream of owning your own business. However, knowledge without action is worse than useless; it’s wasteful. So the key lies in your taking this learned knowledge and applying it! You need to activate knowledge into a true passion, one that translates into a strong resolve to succeed.
You need to have your three C’s in place: “If you have your three C’s in place you will succeed 95% of the time; 1. Clarity of purpose. 2. Competence in what you are doing. 3. Courage to stay the course.”
And finally you must have perseverance!
Sometimes all you need is a small edge to make the deal! A horse race can be a photo finish and the horse can win by a nose. So just a slight edge is all it takes sometimes to win. A “no” does not mean never, it means not yet. Try again. You must be able to walk away from the deal. No means you’re walking towards another deal.
You have to learn to not get emotionally involved in negotiating a deal to buy a business. Don’t give up. It is a fact that more people have given up on the goal line simply because they didn’t know they were there, than at any other point on the field. Just one more try, one more bit of stubborn determination could have carried them on to success.
Remember, it all starts with a dream to own your own business. Then visualize, plan, believe and act. To make ideas work for you, you have to become dedicated and single minded. You must have inspiration to start or buy a business; you have to change your way of thinking and your attitude towards being unreasonable.
We have been programmed all our lives to be reasonable. We should be reasonable in our family lives, but leave it there. Research indicates that from the ages of 6 months to 5 years we were told no 40,000 times and yes only 5,000 times. Is it any wonder we second guess ourselves, that our reaction to adversity and decision making are conditioned to procrastination and that it is proper to be reasonable? Negative input helps create fear of failure, which enables procrastination.
Willingness To Hang In There
When it comes to inspiration in your business, you must become convinced there is nothing wrong with being unreasonable when you are negotiating a business deal. The seller is trying his best to get the most and you should be trying to pay less and get the best terms. Here’s my definition of an unreasonable entrepreneur:
“He’s the best hunter in the world, he has keen eyes and is able to swoop down and seize the opportunity, he’s a high flyer, he flies alone, finds the deals that fits his needs and lives where and how he chooses. He has great habits; he’s always on the hunt. He is like the beautiful American Eagle!”
Dave Meholovitch is a author, consultant, trainer and speaker. And who assists people with starting or buying a business. To see other offers and services, visit his web site at
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