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Entrepreneurial Woman: Are You Minding Your Own Business?
While you may be absolutely eager and ecstatic about your decision to start a business, that cannot be the indicator you use in determining the success factor. Do you know what the "success factor" really is?
Copyright (c) 2008 Aunice Reed
Preparing to be “open for business” is a great, big step. If you expect for it to be a success, then you mustn’t neglect to answer one very essential question before you begin. Are you really ready?
Don’t answer this question simply on the basis of your “eagerness.While you might be exceedingly enthusiastic about your new business, it cannot be used to determine the success factor. Do you know what the “success factor” really is? Why, it’s Y-O-U. It’s you! The Success Factor has nothing to do with capital, networking, legalese, or anything else. Of course, you might think that it does, but the reality is that all of those things are just a fraction of the overall conduction and development of your company. Nothing will gel for you correctly without your express involvement.
So contrary to what many may think, money, or your capital isn’t the bottom line as we so often say. The bottom line is really you. Your earning potential is all up to you and no one else. How well you network, or relate to others and your connections in the world are all results of what YOU do. The very operation of your day-to-day business activities are all an extension of you. Try this experiment. Imagine being at a business conference in your field of expertise, or the area of business you’d like to be involved with. Take note though, you are viewing all of this as if watching a movie. It’s from your point-of-view. Take yourself out of the action. What happens? There’s a whole lot of networking happening, and speakers saying things to get people motivated, but something is definitely wrong with the picture.
The problem is, you are watching everything happen. You are not a part of the action, not even in the slightest. You are standing on the sidelines, simply as a spectator.
Is this what you want?
You want to be right in the midst of it. You crave the experience of excitement, and the buzz of accomplishment. You are the catalyst to making it all happen. So what does this mean?
It’s time for a reality check. Beginning a new business requires a totally distinct mind set; a brand-new set of skills is needed, many of which you may be unfamiliar with. There is nothing wrong with this, only that you now need to develop yourself into the kind of entrepreneur you long to be. It isn’t done simply by wanting it intensely or having the money to do it. If it came that easily, many more people would be successful business owners. The place you must begin, before you actually open the doors of your enterprise to the public, is to do research on yourself. That’s it; you must work on yourself, as this enormously increases the chances of you being victorious in your entrepreneurial quest.