Archive for June, 2009

A Dollar and Some Ambition


piggy_bank_brokencehomeCapital in your business isn’t what matters. It isn’t the money that buys you a future; it’s your skills that buy you a future. Money and no skills, I’m telling you, you are still poor. Money and no ambition, where are you? Money and no courage, you’re broke. A little bit of money and a whole lot of courage is all we need.


1319003Everyone in life starts out with great intentions to make a success of their life. A baby fails on average 10,000 times before successfully walking without falling. That’s how determined we were when we started life. Imagine if a baby tried to walk, fell over a few times and thought, “this is too hard. . . I am just going to take the easy option and crawl the rest of my life!”


 

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Think seriously before you suggest an undergraduate should go get a job during or after school. It could be very poor advice, particularly if you do not volunteer information regarding setting up in business as well. And while greater numbers of graduates and undergraduates alike are setting up businesses today, it is still worthwhile considering why a business is more feasible than moving into the labor force.

Here are 10 good reasons.

1. You Are in a Safer Place (especially in 2009) 
What job would you be secure in today? Its the least secure career path on the planet. I recommend starting a business now. There is business opportunity galore!

Change Your Thinking to Become an Entrepreneur


 

As a man thinketh...Usually the first thing that we are asked (after our name) is “what do you do?” So we answer with our title or job description, but does that really describe us? We are much more than what we do during working hours, just as we are much more than the names we’ve been given. Our lives are the sum of our experiences, and each of these experiences has given us a story about who we think we are. No doubt you’ve heard that people live from their perceptions, or that perception is reality. Our perception…our story is what we live through.