I used to think I could create entrepreneurs. Like my own personal Frankensteins. I would take them into my lab and give them all the pieces they needed (tools, tips, strategies), then jolt them with electricity (motivation) and release them into the wild. Hopefully they didn't run around and scare the townsfolk, or get chased by mobs with pitchforks and torches.
The problem was, most of my experiments ended up returning to the lab a few months later. Failure. So the questions are... Can you make an entrepreneur? Or are they just born that way? In my experience, it's almost impossible to create an entrepreneur... from somebody who truly doesn't want to be one.
Like everything in life, you can't force people to be something they're not. You can't put a square peg in a round hole, and you can't take someone doesn't have the "go, go, go" mentality and turn them into an entrepreneur overnight, or at all?
The biggest reason these lab experiments have failed is because the people I have consulted were lying to me. They told me they wanted to work for themselves. They told me they hated their boss. They told me they would welcome hard work. But when push came to shove, they didn't put in the effort.
Why? Because being an entrepreneur is not like having a "regular" job. You don't always get a steady paycheck. In fact, sometimes you could go months or years without one.
You don't get to work between 9-5 then take the night off. In fact, every entrepreneur I know works harder and longer than a 9-5 person. You don't have the support of a team of other employees. In fact, at first it's usually just you, in your home office all by yourself with nobody to help you out. Frankenstein could have started a franchise of scaring the crap out of people if he had the drive, and the brains. The good news for you is that you have the brains. But do you have the drive?
So, TPE community. Can you make an entrepreneur out of someone who doesn't want to be one?
By Jim Kukral, Author of Attention! This Book Will Make You Money
For over 15-years, Jim Kukral has helped small businesses and large companies like Fedex, Sherwin Williams, Ernst & Young and Progressive Auto Insurance understand how find success on the Web. As well as a professional speaker, blogger and Web business consultant. Find out more by visiting www.JimKukral.Com
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