
We are born an
entrepreneur; it is the act of searching for easier life that turn our
entrepreneurship mindset to lazy one. In the days of old, everyone is proud of
having his own farm, no one is ready to have the stigma called slave.
The believe
then was that, it is only slaves that is expected to till in another man’s farm
for money or food and are strictly reserve for strangers not citizen, and no
slave can have anything more than the owner. But today reverse is the case.
Some believe the entrepreneurial traits is reserve for some set of people, some
even think entrepreneur is a second option for job opportunity and many more
believe that is against entrepreneurship in everyone of us; so unfortunate.
We all know
what the above scenario means; those who are ready to create jobs are more than
those in search for jobs. No one is ready to loss his dignity and freedom
cheaply, they protect it jealously. But what happen nowadays, we take pride in
selling our dignity and freedom cheaply.
In another way
round, even workers might be the lower class citizen, but no one is ready to
let go of his hard working staff as a result of scarcity, they guide it
jealously with competition of who pay the highest rate compare to what we have
today in which your smartness and hard working does not guarantee you for what
your sweat worth, rather a threat of layoff that you are not ready to hear
which subject you to agreed on rate below your effort. After all, we’ve all
know that when supply is more than demand, the rate goes down.
Today, except
for the hypocrite, we all know that, it is the laziness and the disease of
instant gratification in us that bring upon us the suffering in the world. The
world of entrepreneur is that of delay gratification, but as the saying goes
“we are in the jet age” in which the fastest is the best, slow and steady is no
more the song, it’s all about the fast and furious.
Let us wake up
and awaken the entrepreneurial in each and everyone of us. We all know we have
the opportunity to get it done than the previous age. Fine! We might not be
able to go back to the barter system of trade but instead a partnership that
make things work perfectly when there are more jobs givers than seekers. And
now that money invention is available on like the barter era, we can easily
exchange and get what we cannot produce on our own from the other guy in the
nest door producing it.
Entrepreneurship
is Risky
I have been
looking at this issue from a broad or let me say macro perspective rather than
the micro (individual) point of few. Comparing the gain of entrepreneur to the
risk is like comparing the stress of driving to walking a long distance. Which
one will you choose, driving or walking? No doubt I know you are questioning
me. Are you insane? Maybe not, but I advice you check yourself if one of your
excuses for not going into entrepreneurship is that of: the risk of going into
entrepreneurship is too much, I can’t bear that.
I don’t have
the Resources
One other alibi
that is also costing you what belong to you as a born entrepreneur is that of
financial resources (Capital). The question is, is it really the resources
needed to become an entrepreneur? Absolutely not; the truth is that we need
money to start and run business, but about 95% of people who consider it first,
do fail, which correspond with the research that says 95% of every start up
failed in the first five years and out of the remaining 5% another 95% failed
in the next five years.
Taken
possession of the entrepreneur in you only required utilization of natural
resources in form of talent, passion, ideas, skills experience etc naturally
deposited in us. These natural resources if utilize will bring in the financial
resources for full commercialisation.
Are
you building a dream or illusion?
I need to work
to raise a start up capital for my business, says Henry. I question him
further; what business are you interested in going into? He said he is
interested in going into eatery business; I chuckle, do you know why? Here is
Henry interested in eatery business but working in textile industry. But
instead of reaching conclusion, I went further to ask, do you have any training
or work experience in the industry: he said no. But instead of discouraging
him, I told him to quit his job and start working to learn rather than working
to earn.
Yes! If your
case is like that of Henry who believe in saving some money to start a business
by working, then you can use one stone to kill two birds; to raise start up
capital but most especially to gain valuable experience to commence your
business in the future by working for a company operating in the business you
are interested in. One reason to back this up is that, it is easy to transfer
experience within the same industry compare to cross industry.
There are lots
of traits required to be a successful entrepreneur, but first awaken your
entrepreneurial mindset and latter you can learn any of the skills or traits
you don’t have, which is the reason why they said entrepreneur are made rather
than born.
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