5 Tips for Successful Entrepreneurship

[socaldude]

1. STOP MAKING ASSUMPTIONS!! I would argue that that the majority of all entrepreneurship failures are caused by making assumptions. For example: Assuming that your business truly serves a need/want/desire in the market. Assuming that everything will go out as planed. Or Assuming that the market will respond positively to the pricing of your product or service. Remember just like in investments, you need to identify variables and identify how those variables interact and affect your business. You need to do your Homework. I know we hear that all the time, but you will be surprised how many people don't. You need to think 99% of people dont think. Why? Because thinking involves effort and process. Something people don't like! When Isaac Newton was asked how he solved so many scientific problems, he simply said: "by thinking about them all the time". Think about your business, think about problems in the market place, and don't stop thinking!

2. STOP BEING A "KNOW IT ALL"!!! This goes into human nature. If you constantly think that your insights and thinking are somehow more sophisticated than anyone else's and that you are never wrong. It is gonna cost you big time. I'm not saying don't have confidence in your abilities, thats different. But we need to understand that we can easily be WRONG. SERIOUSLY ask yourself what percentage of the time are you wrong. I can guarantee you that it is not 0%. You need to be open to new perspectives, ideas, solutions, plans etc. Set your ego aside and look for facts and evidence. Not the "i am right because i just am" type of BS.

3. EMBRACE RISK!!! Thats right marry it, kiss it, hug it and love it. This is what sets Entrepreneurs from Joe Blow the store clerk or Sally Sue the store supervisor. But be careful, this ties into tip #1: Assumptions, IGNORANCE increases risk. And of course we want to decrease it, but we cant completely eliminate it. A good book i read on this is: http://www.amazon.com/Uncertainty-Turning-Fear-Doubt-Brilliance/dp/159184424X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326509489&sr=8-1

4. STOP!!! What i mean by this is to simply take 30 minutes a day to just think. Sit in a quite room or go to the park and just think about everything in your life, your plans, where you are going in life, where you are now, where you want to go etc. The reason we should do this is because we are very routine and habitual beings. Everything is fast paced these days: "pick up the kids" "go to work" then "go drop off joe blow" HURRY HURRY HURRY!!! Yes that is why we always see the soccer moms doing 90 MPH in their big SUVS.

5. SMILE!! I know im getting off topic but i think this one is important just like the previous. I know sometimes we don't feel like smiling because we are stressed, unhappy with our lives, or just plain depressed. But studies have shown that just forcing a smile will trick your mind into feeling happy! When you constantly smile you will find that your mood boosts and you have more motivation.

 

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