by beratus
How to Become an Entrepreneur Part 1
Listed below are the first 5 steps that can help you with your quest on how to become an entrepreneur.
1. Vision / Why
Learning how to become an entrepreneur begins with the reason why you want to become an entrepreneur. It is important that you define this… and its got to be more than the desire for money, because money is just a tool.
Spend some time defining your reason WHY. There are a million reasons and any suggestion I make would possibly cheat your own exploration of why you want to become an entrepreneur. Take a journal and spend sometime alone. In the middle of the paper, write down the word “WHY.” write down the random thoughts that come to you as you look at that word. Spend some time on this. Once you feel you have truly determined your reason why, it’s time to clean it up and produce a clearly written vision statement. This is the foundation and a critical step that you don’t want to miss, because you will rely on your vision to get you through every obstacle.
To form your vision, picture your reasons that you wrote concerning your WHY, see them being manifested in the future. What does it look like? Write down specifically what it looks like and this will be the formation of your vision statement. Here is the important part- You Can Trick Your Mind. To truly see your vision become reality, your mind has to see your vision as reality. To do this, write your vision statement in the present tense. When you read it, you will read it as if it’s occurring right now. Once you finalize your vision statement, read it every morning and every evening- pretty soon your unconscious mind will believe that you are there and you will begin making decisions voluntarily and involuntarily as