Advice For The Working Entrepreneur
Running a business on the side while working at a day job is a great way to build some true job security and helps you exercise your creativity and passion to the fullest. It’s not easy to pull this off and to do so you have to have high doses of one ingredient, integrity. You may be saying to yourself that integrity is the easy part. Most of us think that we possess a high amount of integrity and in many cases, we do. When it comes to running a business, there is a small margin for error when you are dealing with clients that have paid for your
Business done easy? Be careful what you ask for.
One thing that I hear when I spend time with new entrepreneurs is a desire to have their business plans, processes and structure done with little work on their part. There is one big reason for this that I will explain. Before I get into that, I will say that you are setting yourself up for disaster by letting someone do work for you without any involvement from you the business owner. I was inspired to write about this from spending a week in Lake Tahoe with an entrepreneur group called CEO Space. I don’t know how many times I heard the phrase, ‘I don’t know, I just want someone
A winning mindset or safe mindset
I was asked recently how to overcome or get started on a goal setting path and have I always had an entrepreneurial mind set. My answer to the mind set question is a resounding NO! The reason for this is many (don’t worry I will be brief). The first thing that hindered me is that I never saw myself as an entrepreneur. Since I saw myself only as an employee working up the ranks that is exactly what I became. During the course of this employment journey, I wasn’t engaged in what I was doing. The concept of security kept me at this position for almost 10 years even though
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