4 Tips to
Becoming an Outrageously Cool Entrepreneur
The reason why I am talking
about being an entrepreneur is that we are actually in
car heading up to Saint Louis and I am going to meet David Siteman Garland who
has the website The Rise to The Top. He has awesome video blog, he has got some great shows,
and is a soon to be an author. He just really inspired me which is obvious
since we are on the way to Saint Louis on a Wednesday. So I am taking time of
work but I am going to meet him and get inspired by him and some of the people
he has been inspired by. I am going to share some of my tips and some of my
experiences of being an entrepreneur and hope that you get something out of it.
1. Follow Your Passion (and mean it)
So the first tip that I will share
with you is that if you want to be an entrepreneur,
you have to follow your passion. You have to find out what that is. For me, I
have been a numbers guy for pretty much of my life so it is natural fit to get
into investments.
I did not consider myself to be an
entrepreneur until ‘O7 and when I left my previous firm and me and 3 others
started Alliance Investment Planning Group. That was my first taste of being an
entrepreneur. Then I started my blog Goodfinancialcents.com and
right now I am also working on my book and some of other projects. That first
step really gave me the entrepreneur bug. If you don’t want to do numbers is
not your thing then you don’t need to be in my profession. You need to find out
what your passion is, follow your passion and just crush it. You might
start down path and maybe your path changes. That’s OK. That is the beauty of
being an entrepreneur. You have to shift and be agile enough to move on to the
next thing.
2. Dive Right In
The second step that I will say is
dive right in. I have a lot of people, I talked to them that if they want to be
an entrepreneur?
They talk about being an
entrepreneur and all they do is just talk. If you are going to do it, you can
talk about that all day long but until you actually take that first step, until
you put yourself out there, you will never going to know what it is and if you
have what it takes. That was with us when we stepped out and started our own
firm. It was a huge risk. We had a big name behind us and we just let that go.
We took a huge step.
I was lucky in the sense that I had
a good client base already but it did not mean that it had to follow me. So
that was a huge risk and one of the best risk that I have taken.
Another risk was I put myself with
the blog. I read an article in early part of O8 about blogging and how you need
to have a blog. I have no idea what a blog was. I am sure if you read this at
the site. My interpretation of blog was getting on my space and hearing hip hop
music and looking pictures of people, I really did not get it. I started just
reading and researching and looking at blogs. It took me months to figure out.
Lot of late nights, giving some time from weekends to learn the blog and just
don’t ride in. Have I not done it, I still not be talking about it. Here it is
almost two years later, the blog is an awesome thing. First thing is follow
your passion and second thing is dive right in.
3. Cut Out The Crap
Third thing is cut out the crap.
What I mean by this was that I was listening to a podcast of
someone that was a consulting another individual that wanted to be an
entrepreneur. They could never set up the time because the guy, the
“wannabe” entrepreneur, could not schedule the time because he did not
want to miss the show Wipeout.
He couldn’t schedule his consulting session to take him to the next level
because he couldn’t workout the time that didn’t allow him to miss Wipeout. Really?
If you are an entrepreneur (or want
to become one), you can miss Wipeout. So cut out the crap. If you watch hours of reality television
per week, cut it out. Any other noise, just cut it out because this is
your dream, this is your passion. If you really want to do it then you need to
focus 150% or 1050% whatever, put everything into it and that’s the way that
you grow. That’s the way you build your dream and your vision.
4. Support Please
Last thing I say is all about the
support system. Two things. One is having an awesome spouse that is going to
support you throughout the whole process. Somebody holding a video cam
while you are a driving a car is awesome. So having that to
support you and motivate you and sometime may be even second guess and ask, “hey is that a really a good idea?’ This may be that
your driving force to push it hard and to really show that person that YES this is my vision and
this is my dream and I’m going pull it off no matter what it takes.
The other thing is to surround
yourself by people who have similar drive and that have similar vision. If you
have friends who are always just complaining about having hard times to make
ends meet but then they are not doing anything about it. I am not saying to cut
them out but just cut and reduce that time because if you go out and you start
showing them that hey this is me, and you are fired up and super motivated
eventually I hope that you will be contagious.
Cut these people out of your life
and have people that have the similar vision. That is one of the reason that I
am heading towards Saint Louis to meet David Siteman Garland. I met him on
twitter. This guy got such huge followers in a short period of time. This guy
knows what is going on. I am going there and hope that I will meet some great
people that have similar vision, similar drive and similar passion. So find those
people. I had the hardest time finding people locally, I will say that I found
more lately. If you are having hard time finding someone locally that have same
vision, same drive then head online. Start a blog, go on twitter, find people
that have similar interest you do and you will be amazed. David is one of the
100 people I found online that just have “it”.
Entrepreneur Recap
So just as a recap if you really
want to become an entrepreneur to make your dream your vision blossom what you
want it to see. Number 1 is find your passion, find what it is that gets you
going because if it is your passion it will not be a job, It will be a hobby a
fun hobby. Number two is dive right in. Just dive right in and then you learn
so much. With blogging, I did not know anything about it but I just said that I
am going to do it and I am going to figure it out as I go. Sure enough I did
that. There were a lot of trials but it all worked out. Number three is cut out
the crap. Cut out television, cut out things, the basic takeaways of putting
time and energies to focus. Last thing is have a good support system. So
this is Jeff Rose goodfinancialcents.com. Thanks for bearing with us and I hope that you enjoyed it.
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