Your Own Business Starts by Reconnecting With Your Dream

What are the principals to bring out the Hidden Entrepreneur in you? Well, there are a lot of them. What I want to do is focus on four key points

1. Your current reality

2. Your vision

3. Your motivation

4. A world full of choices.

Let me start by telling you a story. To see if you can see these points I will be talking about a 16 year old kid I knew back in 1964. This 16 year old kid knew he didn't have the money but he had a dream. He wanted a 1957 Coal Black Chevy. How many of you know what those look like? He could picture it. He could see it. He could see Polishing it in his driveway. He could feel the wind blowing in his face on a cool summer day with his classmates talking and laughing in the front and back seats during lunch hour on the way to buy lunch out instead of eating the awful school lunch. Jobs were hard to find but he diligently read ads in newspaper until one day he saw an ad - "Salesman wanted for the girls' basketball tournaments." He called the ad and they said come on down. It is a straight commission job we need the help.

There were no separate territories. Anyone could sell in the gym wherever he wanted.

There was no training but he saw what to do and with his creativity figured out what the other salesman couldn't. All he did was go clear up to the top of the stands, the old guys were too lazy to do that. They just stood half way up and yelled "Frosty Malts", Frosty Malts." He guess the people were too embarrassed to yell back from that far away that they wanted one. When someone wanted one, he just stood there a while. Pretty soon someone else raised her hand....and then someone else.....and then someone else. He sold his whole bag in nothing flat. He ran back to get more and emptied his bag again in nothing flat.

Well at the end of the evening his pockets were stuffed full of quarters and dollar bills and he was top salesman amongst all the old guys with their fat bellies and cigarettes hanging out of the corner of their mouth. He had made $10 per hour. That was big money at a time when minimum wage was $1.25 per hour.

I now see that the reason why this kid was off to such an early success is because he applied all these things I am going to be teaching you today. They are clearly demonstrated in that frosty malt story and he didn't even know he was using them.

We are going to go to some degree of detail in each of these areas and some of them may really strike a cord with you. Some might not be for you....they might be for someone else. But I just ask you to sit tight because these 4 areas cover a very broad spectrum of possibilities. So once again we are going to cover 4 areas

1. Your current reality

2. Your vision

3. Your motivation

4. A world full of choices.

What is YOUR CURRENT REALITY? How does that apply to us as budding entrepreneurs? We simply need to look at where we are today and why we are there.

The kid in the Frosty malt story. He knew he didn't have the money. That was his CURRENT REALITY.

We are where we are usually because of self imposed limitations. We don't believe we can be anyone different or do anything different. We have been influenced by our parents, friends and family until we get out of high school. So we end up taking their advice and are today wherever we are.

Everyone tells us we need to go to school. We need to get a good job. We need to get a good retirement. Or we decide to start our own business and we need to work 90 hours a week just to make it go.

So Where are you today? Retired, working 70 hours a week, a stay at home parent, an executive, a blue collar worker? Do you have the amount of money you want to buy what you want? If you are you like most people you are trading time for dollars and that is your CURRENT REALITY. You believe the only way to get more money is to work harder and longer. I used to believe this. I used to work 70 hours a week. I did it for 19 years with my own computer business. I loved what I was doing but I hated that it took so much time. I missed out on a lot of life that now I wish I had had. But several years ago I found an easy to start business for $1000 where I could make more in a lot less than 70 hours a week.

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Your Own Business Starts by Reconnecting With Your Dream