7 signs that may mean you are an Entrepreneur

1 – You love creating things.

You enjoy the creation and building process and can think of numerous ways to combine existing things and create something new and exciting.

2 – You have a huge ego

You think that you could do better than your boss, in fact, you know you could do better. Having an ego is not a bad thing in the world of entrepreneurs, you are confident in your abilities and you are not afraid to show it.

3 – You are a dreamer

You are supposed to be working on some accounts, but instead you are dreaming of business ideas and investment opportunities in the future. Part of you always feels like it is in the future, and that excites you.

4 – Opportunity is everywhere

You see opportunities in every day life. In stores, on television, in the news etc… everything for you is an opportunity.

5 – You are passionate

Everyone else seems to live to work, but you don’t. You are passionate about what you do, you enjoy it, and it makes you feel good. You can easily work on a new project until the late hours of the morning. Without passion, you don’t feel as alive.

6 – You are a control freak

You almost always believe that you could do it better, even when you are paying someone to do it for you. You like to be in control, you like to make the decisions, and you like to answer only to yourself.

7 – You like strategy

You like to dream, but you do so with an element of strategy. Everything is like a game or puzzle to you, from office politics to business success. You have an eye for strategic manoeuvres, and nothing is going to beat you.

Living Time

Recently I saw an advertisement for a time management booklet: "Shorter deadlines, competing priorities, endless meetings, interruptions and even higher quality expectations are just some of today's time challenges. And yet the number of hours in the day remains the same." 

As entrepreneurs we all struggle sometimes with managing our time effectively. I once heard an entrepreneur say that of the people he knows, his entrepreneur friends are the worst people when it comes to managing their time and priorities. Too often we fall prey to the misguided notion that being busy is the same as making progress.

Motivational Quote of the Day

"If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich."

Su Shi

"Doubt can only be removed by action."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Just as millions of snowflakes pile up to create a blanket of snow, the 'thank you's' we say pile up and fall gently upon one another until, in our hearts and minds, we are adrift in gratitude."

Daphne Rose Kingman

"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."

Lionel Hampton

SCORING RANGE

8—16 Wow! Things must be pretty rough right now.
17—30 Average score of many small business owners
30—45 There are some very satisfying and very dissatisfying areas in your life
45—56 You recognize the importance of life balance to life success

(have to see older post to understand what this is for )

Motivational Quote of the Day

"If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich."
Su Shi

DEVELOP A PLAN

As you look at your current level of satisfaction what patters or themes do you see? Where areas are you the least satisfied with? The most?
For you who recognize a change is in order, here are a five simple steps to help you start finding the work-life balance that leads to success:

1. Choose 1 area that you are dissatisfied with and would like to see some immediate improvement in. This should not be your worst or best scoring area, but somewhere in the middle. Take a couple minutes and write down in detail what balance would look like for you in that area.
2. Now, get out your planner and make a note to yourself one week from today. In the note, write down:
• the area that you want to improve your level of satisfaction in
• the “score” where you are now and the “score” you want to be at the next week
• 2 things you are going to do to move yourself towards that goal over this next week
3. Tell someone about your goal and ask them to hold you accountable—whether it’s a friend, a mentor, or your coach. It’s easy to make “new year, new leaf” promises to yourself, but more difficult to follow through with unless you know someone is holding you accountable to reach your goal.
4. Set up a time to talk with your accountability partner the next week. Did you reach your goal? If not, talk about what kept you from reaching it and what will you do differently this next week. If you did reach your goal, congratulate yourself. Do something simple to celebrate your achievement.
5. The final step is to go back to step 1 and do it over again.

Creating life balance is never easy and it’s never complete. There will always be room for improvement. The point is that you can make your life more balanced by taking small steps in the right direction. Like most worthwhile things in life, creating life balance is a process, not an event!

ASSESS WHERE YOU ARE

Take a moment and write down these 8 life areas:
 

• friends & family
• fun & recreation
• physical environment & home
• romance & significant other
• fitness & health
• career
• finances
• personal & spiritual growth
 

Next to each area assess where you currently are. On a scale of 1 to 7, with 1 being “completely dissatisfied” and 7 being “completely satisfied” mark how currently you are satisfied in each area. Add up the totals of all eight areas before reading further. The scoring is at going to be on the nex blog i post.