Develop Your Entrepreneurial Mindset
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Entrepreneur. You?
If you are currently working in a job, feeling like it's not adding enough value and you want more out of life, you might want to consider starting a business on your own.
If this is how you think in general, you more than likely have what is called an entrepreneurial mindset.
Entrepreneurial mindset refers to a specific state of mind which orientates human conduct towards entrepreneurial activities and outcomes. Individuals with entrepreneurial mindsets are often drawn to opportunities, innovation and new value creation.
Put simply, it means that you are constantly thinking about ways to make money, to set up successful businesses, helping others in the process. All while you increase your revenue throughout the years.
Although most people become complacent and content with the job that they have thinking there's nothing else that is possible, an entrepreneur is the exact opposite. This article will address three simple steps to build the entrepreneurial mindset.
What Is The Entrepreneurial Mindset?
As I mentioned before, an entrepreneur is somebody that thinks outside the box. They are not content with their life, they believe that they can accomplish so much more, and they will take (calculated) risks in order to achieve their goals.
Someone that has this type of mindset is constantly thinking about ways they can make change not only their own environment, but others as well. They will contemplate ideas for days or weeks (years), and work on prototypes, connect with others (modeling, mentoring, coaching) and creating systems that they believe will work. They will then put their plans into action - and without over analyzing it. This could be creating a new type of website, app, creating a product, and then sending targeted traffic to what they have to offer. If they fail, they will simply pick themselves up, start again, always knowing that they are going to succeed. Expect to fail, don't be afraid of it, they say.
Three Steps To Building An Entrepreneurial Mindset
STEP 1: Realize that thinking outside of the box is normal. You must recondition your mind to realize that your job, your current place in life right now, and the things that are currently out of your reach, are all things that you can change on your own through your actions and efforts. You become what you think about - most of the time. Use that to your advantage, and expect the nay-sayers, even those closest to you.
STEP 2: You need to spend time creating a new reality, a new life that you want to have. In the case of someone setting up a business, you will see yourself at the head of a company, running a very successful business, and start to write out a skeletal outline of how this can be achieved. If you are thinking anyway, you might as well think BIG, says Donald Trump.
STEP 3: The final step involves filling in the blanks, coloring in this idea that you have with very specific details. As the book "Think And Grow Rich" (free download) states emphatically, you need specialized knowledge, not general knowledge, in order to succeed where others have failed. This can be developed and all successful entrepreneurs started with very little. That may be you, but don't be discouraged. You can do it!
Once you have gone through the motions of realizing that your life can and will change for the better, writing out a schematic of how this will occur, you'll then need to take action. The actions that you take may not lead to success the first time, or even the 20th time that you try. But because you are an entrepreneur, because your mindset says that you cannot fail, you will keep trying like every entrepreneur on this planet has ever done, until you find success. When times are tough, make sure to lean on your mentors, coaching and inspirational materials. Get a copy of Success Magazine.
You. Make a Difference. Now!
By changing the way you think, planning a successful business that you want to have, and repetitiously pursuing it until it manifests, you will be the embodiment of what is called the entrepreneurial mindset.
Further reading and resources:
We Are All Entrepreneurs (a Mindset)
Traits of A True Entrepreneurial Mindset
5 Unusual Ways To Change Your Negative Mindset (For Entrepreneurs)