Entrepreneurship Is a Mindset (Not A Startup)
How could I possibly educate or insist my own kids pursue their dreams…if they didn’t see me pursuing mine?
I advocate that entrepreneurship isn’t just starting a business. It’s a mindset…taking ownership of cause and effect. It’s realizing that everything you experience is a product of your decisions — and deciding to make better ones. It is developing a solutions oriented focus; where you observe the world around you looking actively for problems needing to be solved with better methods.
You can be an entrepreneur inside a start up or large company, a family, non profit or a mission. The label doesn’t matter; the lens does.
Starting a venture is harder than people know. Forbes suggests a 90% failure rate for startups within the first few years. The U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also shows that 80-90% fail in the first three years. Year one is crucial…The topics we discuss here are your keys to increasing these outcomes!
Ever heard of the 80/20 Rule? The 80/20 rule, or Pareto Principle, states that roughly 80% of outcomes (results) come from 20% of causes (inputs). My thoughts…Focus on the 80% of this list and the rest falls into place.
Entrepreneurship: 80% Mindset, 20% Mechanics
Success 80% Doing, 20% Dreaming
Relationships: 80% Giving, 20% Receiving
Learning: 80% Understanding, 20% Reading
Health: 80% Eating, 20% Exercise
Wealth: 80% Habits, 20% Math
5 Benefits To Adopting An Entrepreneurial Mindset (Invest In Your Personal Evolution!)
In my 30+ years of study, I have observed that money flows toward a positive mindset. Relationships, opportunities, and impact do too. The greatest investors, artists, and innovators in the world aren’t just lucky — they think and act differently. They invest in their personal evolution as seriously as they invest in their businesses. They’ve learned that the outer world rises only as high as the inner world allows.
This is about that inner game — the daily mental conditioning that helps you stay calm in chaos and confident in creation. We’ll explore how to build momentum when you feel anxious, apathetic or stuck, how to design a brand that reflects your truth, how to turn setbacks into data, and how to live your life as if you were meant to make a difference — because you are!
5 Benefits to Adopting An Entrepreneurial Mindset
Encourages the curious, innovation mindset our nation is lacking
Drives economic growth and creates new jobs
Launches solutions that reduce dependence on obsolete technologies
Addresses social and economic problems
Promotes competition which improves efficiency and lowers price
You’re not here to drift or survive the storm…You’re here to surf and master it!
Dictate the Game!
One of the essential points I would like to leave with you is the importance of taking control of your professional activities. Be proactive. Create; don’t simply respond. Hopefully, I have provided you with a glimpse into my own life and what has worked for my family and the thousands served through these principles.
Football is the most popular sport in America today. One of the sports innovators, Bill Walsh, best known as former coach of the multiple world champion San Francisco 49ers, actually scripted the first 20–25 plays of every game on his clip board. He was the first professional coach to do this. It was his philosophy and proactive mentality that instead of reacting to the game events, he would seize control of the contest by dictating what went on during the game. No matter the circumstances, he was calling the plays he felt were optimal based on his squad. Today, every team in the National Football League scripts their plays in an attempt to control the events on the field.
The message:
Script your life and don’t be dictated to when it comes to your career activities! Do not be directed by the economy or by industries in demand; instead, focus on exactly what you want and it will come to you.
