What does it take to be your own boss? What does it take to be an Entrepreneur? That word, Entrepreneur, scares people. It’s a fancy word, for fancy people. It has a mystique about it, an association of wealth and power. French is like that, it sounds too inflated and important. Really, all it means is someone who starts or runs a business. It is usually associated with running a business. The actual meaning is less impressive and sounds a lot less scary. The reason I go to the trouble of explaining this is to illustrate the fact that once you know what a thing is, it’s a lot less intimidating than it first seems. Running a business is the same. It sounds intimidating and incredibly difficult, but the truth is, with the Internet, running a business can’t be scarier than sending email.

There are companies created to do all the heavy lifting for you. You’ve probably received emails from many of these companies telling you that you can be rich in as little as 24 hours. Truth be told, most of these companies seek to line their own pockets at your expense. There are exceptions, and they can be found with a few searches. Entrepreneurs Are Driven That brings me to the first attribute any entrepreneur needs, drive. Anyone who really wants to be their own boss is motivated to do so. You don’t wake up one day and decide, ‘Hey, I think I’m going to start a business, let me check my email for one.’

A true entrepreneur wants to be in charge of his own destiny. They need to make the decisions for their life and their work. They understand that they will never get the money they deserve, working for someone else, and that the greater the risk, the greater the reward. These are people who know what they want, even if they don’t yet know how they can get it. That’s fine, you don’t have to know the exact process to get what you want, you just have to know what you want. You learn the process as you go. It’s all in the details Knowing what you want is more than just saying you want a lot of money. Everyone says that they want to have a lot of money. Entrepreneurs say exactly how much money they want to have and when they want it. That goes for more than money. Entrepreneurs specify exactly what they want, no matter what it is, down to the last detail.

This concept sounds foreign to most people at first, after all, how can you be specific about something you don’t already have? The truth is, you’ve probably done it yourself at one point or another. Let’s say you want a house. Will any old house do for you? Probably not. You have needs and wants about the type of home you want, especially if it is your dream home. You know, for example, how many floors it should have, if it has a basement or not, and if that basement is finished. You know the kind of neighborhood you’ll be in, even if you don’t know exactly. You know how much land it sits on and whether it’s flat, grassy, ​​wooded, or hilly. Inside the house, you know how many bedrooms it has and on which floors they are located. You know how many bathrooms you need or want, and if one of them is a master bathroom next to your bedroom. You (or the person who does most of the cooking) knows where the kitchen should be located and, most likely, what its exact layout is to make it easy and efficient. Does this house have a garage? How big is it? Is there some kind of workshop inside or next to the house, for hobbies? These are all things you’ve already thought about, no matter how far away it may seem. They are details that help you manifest the perfect home for you and your family.

Now take that attention to detail and put it into your perfect business. Don’t worry about what the real deal is yet, instead think about the details of your life that the deal will give you. First of all, it will allow you to buy or build that house. That is a detail. Now what else will it give you? Maybe it’s the freedom of being home and working. Perhaps you want the ability to travel to faraway places and how often you could go. With details about the life you want your business to give you, you also have an idea of ​​how much money you’ll need to get those things. This is how you work out the details of how much money you want to make and how fast. If you want to be able to take a month-long trip to Europe next summer, find out how much it will cost to get there, and the prices of accommodation, and don’t forget to spend cash.

Now you have a good idea of ​​how much money you will need. You also have a goal. Goals are one of the most important things an Entrepreneur has. Goals tell you what you need and when. They also tell you how far you have come in your plan. If you set goals, you’re much more likely to succeed because you’ll know if you’re getting off track and if you’re not getting closer to your goal. Create the details of life that you want your business to give you. Don’t skimp. Keep doubt from entering your mind. Every time you think, “Well, I can never do that,” or “I can never do that,” or “That can’t happen,” you reinforce your fears and doubts, and aren’t those doubts and fears that have kept you where you are? ? Entrepreneurs Think Big If you ever want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to think like one. Start with what you think of yourself. If someone asks you what you do, what is the first answer that comes to mind? If you have a job, it will be your occupation. If you’re unemployed, you’re probably embarrassed.

Your self image, how you think of yourself is the biggest challenge to be a successful entrepreneur. If you ask Donald Trump what he does, he’s not going to list all the projects he has going on, he’s just going to say that he’s an entrepreneur. That is the same leap you must take. Stop using his job or lack of a job to describe yourself to others. When someone asks you what you do, tell them you’re an entrepreneur! Don’t worry about having a successful business yet, or even a business, it’s not required. All you need is the confidence to answer that you are an Entrepreneur. If they ask you what exactly you do, you can simply say, “I’m on a lot of projects.” If you can’t confidently tell someone, be it a stranger or someone you know, that you are an entrepreneur, you will never be one. This is the first hurdle in a very long race, you’d better get over it if you plan on finishing. Success really is a mind game. If you don’t believe you can succeed, you won’t. Only by changing the way you see yourself can you start to change the way you see other things. If you’re not successful, how can you expect to have the money and lifestyle you want? First of all, you have to see yourself as successful.

No matter how small the success is, celebrate it! The first time someone asks you what you do and you answer that you are an Entrepreneur, celebrate it. Celebrate the fact that you have overcome that first hurdle. Celebrate that your thinking is changing and that you are on your way to the things you deserve. Winning the Mind Game The things you feel you deserve are the things you’ll find a way to get. Entrepreneurs will do whatever it takes to get what they want. If you want it bad enough, you’ll do whatever it takes to get it. Speaking as a man (and being a man, I can’t speak for women) when I was young, I never dated. I didn’t go on a single date in high school, I was too shy. What girl would want to date me?

After high school, I realized that the people I spent the most time with didn’t have the story that everyone I knew at school did. I could be whoever I wanted to be. I watched guys who were successful with women. I studied what they did and how they did it. These were guys who had a different ‘girlfriend’ every week. After all, if they could get all these women to spend time with them, they must know something. Long story short, I learned what it takes to get a girlfriend. First, you can not be afraid of rejection. If a lady says that she’s not, she goes to the next one that you think she’s attractive. Don’t tie her self-esteem to a woman saying yes. I’ve learned that when a woman says no, she’s not rejecting you as a person, she’s just not interested. I learned to keep looking.

Never tie your self-esteem to anything where failure is a possibility. Remember, failure is not just an option, it’s a requirement! You will fail, it is inevitable. It is what you learn from failure that determines how successful you are. Learn the lesson that failure has to teach you, and you will never suffer the same failure again. When I learned not to sound desperate when asking a girl out, no matter how desperate I really was, I found that I got yes for an answer a lot more. If you don’t link your self-esteem to anything that can fail, you can take failure in stride and move on to the next idea. Eventually, you will succeed.

No one achieves success overnight or without failure. Learn to fail gracefully, without loss of confidence, and you will have succeeded! Successful people succeed because they believe they are successful, that’s the real secret. Does that mean that a failure does not affect them? You are welcome. You will be affected by failure every time it happens, just like a guy is affected by a pretty lady who turns him down for a date. He finds her attractive, he wants to get to know her better. If she rejects him, that can’t happen, but if he doesn’t link her self-worth to her response, he’ll be less affected by failure. As long as he doesn’t think that she is telling him that he is a useless person by saying no, he can continue. (Ladies, I’m giving you a secret here, the male ego really is very fragile.) Everything is connected.

It is no coincidence that he has used dating as an example of success in business. First of all, there is no such thing as coincidence. Everything happens for a reason. Life is full of lessons, the ones we learn should never be repeated, the ones we fail to learn will always be repeated. The lessons you learn while figuring out how to ask someone out are the same lessons you need to know to be successful at anything else. Believe in yourself, don’t let others tell you that you can’t. Find understanding people to spend time with, and stop spending time with those who say you can’t. If your spouse is one of those people who always tells you that you can’t, maybe you shouldn’t marry them.

It is always easier to believe in yourself if others believe in you too. Change your attitude, and if necessary, change your friends. Successful people hang out with successful people. Surround yourself with successful people and you must be successful yourself, or you will feel inferior. Challenge yourself by making your current situation uncomfortable. By spending time with other people you consider to be successful, you make your current situation seem less than desirable. This will make you change the situation. If you go to big house parties that have friends over, you’re not going to invite them to your house until you have a house that you feel is suitable. Since friends expect to be invited to your home from time to time, you’ll do whatever it takes to get the kind of home you can be proud of.

The more uncomfortable your current environment becomes, the more you will work to change it. Being successful really has to do with attitude. Stop settling for less than what you really want. Find out exactly what you want, in detail. The more details you create, the easier it will be to achieve. It will also be more difficult to settle for less of everything you want.

This is not all it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, this is just the first step. If you create the attitude of success, detailed goals, and learn from your setbacks, you will succeed. don’t give up. Work harder at this than you’ve ever worked at anything before. Everything else comes as a result of a successful attitude.