Awakening the Entrepreneur Within You

Being an entrepreneur is much more about who you are than about what you do. Follow these tips to strengthen the entrepreneur within.

There’s a commonly held belief that one becomes an entrepreneur by going into business, or going out on one’s own.

I don’t subscribe to that belief.

In fact, not only don’t I subscribe to that belief, but I hold strongly to the opposing belief–with overwhelming evidence to support my position–that to go into business, or out on one’s own, in the belief that by so doing you’ll be an entrepreneur will result in tragic consequences of the greatest magnitude. In short, it’s a very, very bad idea!

So then what exactly is an entrepreneur? Let me share my view with you, and then let me give you three exercises to do to help awaken the entrepreneur within you.

An entrepreneur is not a person, but a personality, the personality living inside of each and every person on the face of the earth, the personality who dreams. The entrepreneur inside of you, of me, of your friends, of your relatives of every shape, size and dimension, no matter what they do for a living, no matter how bold or how shy, no matter where they live or what their education may or may not be, the entrepreneur in each and every human being is the dreamer who sees life as it could be, not as it is. It’s the dreamer who sees mountains where only flat land exists; who sees great buildings and cities and countries arising with enormous energy where no buildings or cities or countries live as of yet; who sees the sweet juice of opportunity around every corner, in every nook, cranny and claptrap yard, in every square or rounded inch of misery. To the entrepreneurial personality living in each and every human being, there is a life larger than life, a beauty larger than beauty, a promise larger than any promise could hope to be. The entrepreneur in each and every one of us is the inventor, the creator, a lunatic of the most profound dimensions, the inconsolable pursuer of the impossible who sees visions where others only see work.

by Michael Gerber

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