People who lived in the Industrial Age are usually not very open to change. People who have lived most of their lives in the Industrial Age still believe that to be successful you have to follow the same formula; get a college education and then you can get a good, secure job for life. They believe that it doesn’t matter whether or not you like your job, it’s a regular paycheck, and that’s your security.
Another reason people are reluctant to make a change is because they fear the disapproval of others. People who make career changes, are sometimes looked at by their colleagues, friends, and family with raised eyebrows. Professionals especially are looked at with disbelief. The people around them wonder what possessed them to want to make a change. Why want to leave a lucrative pay and start from scratch?
This type of reasoning is very detrimental to success, because it assumes the individual doesn’t grow. You don’t have to decide what you are going to do in the eighth grade and stick with it the rest of your life. You can switch jobs. You can and should make career changes.
Having the entrepreneurial spirit means wanting to run a business the way you run your life. And wanting to run your life the way you run your business. To run a successful business you want to increase the number of clients you have. To have a successful personal life you want to increase the number of friends you have. You need to have a business plan to guide your business success. You need to have goals and objectives to guide and measure your personal success.Business and your personal life are run in parallel. For every example of the entrepreneurial spirit in business there is a parallel in life.
Having the entrepreneurial spirit means your personal and professional life cannot be separated. Being an entrepreneur is a way of life. All you need to do is get yourself into an entrepreneurial mind-set, and you’ll have the power to make things happen.
Have you got what it takes to be an entrepreneur? ;)
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