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Being an Entrepreneur is fun - and you can learn how to do it very easily if you are open to people and their problems. I’ll start by telling you about what should motivate you and how. For most people some of the key motivations for working as an Entrepreneur are:
1) You get to work for yourself and you set your own work hours.
2) The money is much better than if I work a job.
3) You will only get rich if I start a business.
While all of these are the right reasons for trying to get into the Entrepreneur mode. The way we look at these reasons are skewed because of the way things are in this age of show-offs.
1) Yes, you get to work for yourself - and that means you have no one to tell you how much to work and what to work on - this means the motivation to work has to come from within. The only way this can happen is if the work you have chosen excites you. If you don’t like what you are working on there is little chance that you will succeed as an entrepreneur. So when you want to start as an entrepreneur you should first be sure about what you want to create - which industry you are going to cater to. Once you find something that interests you - there will be many things you can do.
Once you start enjoying your work - the hours don’t matter anymore. Well it doesn’t feel like work anymore and that can sometimes be dangerous with you working or thinking about work almost through the day - every minute - every hour.
2) Like I said before the meaning of money is skewed in today’s world. It has just become something we want - the more the better. But you delve a little deeper you will see that what money means is the amount of service you are giving to your fellow human beings in this community. The more valuable the service the more money you get for it. This is the seed of entrepreneurship - learn to locate service requirements and learn to develop things to cater to them - be it a software or a website or a gadget. When you focus on the “Service Requirement” you focus on the honey pots of money - and anyone will tell you there are almost infinite such requirements - you just need to find what is required.
An important aspect of entrepreneurship is talking to people - once you have located a service requirement - talk to the people you will be catering to and learn from them the challenges they face and what they need. Then develop a business plan - chalk it out - first the requirement - then the research on what is required - then develop the plan of action you will take to develop a solution.
Something else that may help is reading up on the industry you want to work in - you will find numerous problems people are facing in those news stories - there lies the keys to entrepreneurship.
3) This is unfortunately true - society rewards the leaders and we need as many of them as we can - so if you want to reap the rewards - learn to look at money the way it should be looked at and not just a greed in your mind - and learn the methods to become an entrepreneur.
It’s not something out of reach - it’s just something you need to work on patiently and with confidence. More on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs later.


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