Are You Born Or Made To Start A Work From Home Business Opportunity?
Figuring out your niche as an entrepreneur can be difficult.
I remember when I was twelve years old, I was dinking around on the piano, my mom walked in and asked me if I wanted to take lessons. I was a little unsure because I had never played piano before and I had this preconceived notion that piano playing was not cool. The cool kids played sports, not piano Mom!
Well my mom didn’t get this memo and was persistent on finding me a teacher in the community that would train me. In no time she found someone. She was extremely talented and I picked it up pretty quickly. I transitioned from all of the piano books into more advanced classical pieces. It seemed to happen so fast that I felt like and was told that I was a natural.
What does that mean? A Natural. Did I always have this inside of me or is this something that was cultivated over time that never fully existed?
Nature Vs. Nurture
This principle of nature vs. nurture is a fun one that has been batted around time and time again in many aspects of life, but being this is a business opportunity blog, we are going to see how it applies to a work from home business opportunity.
If there is any type of person in business that probably battles with this the most, it is the home based business entrepreneur. From personal experience they tend to suffer the most self-doubt among all of the entrepreneurs I believe. It is often because they don’t have the support system or the background to leverage their business as well as others. They tend to trap themselves in a corner with little potential because of little ideas.
Ask yourself if these questions come to mind, “Am I spending my time and money the right way? Is this too complicated for me to learn? How can I compete against company x,y, and z? Can I even provide value to my customers?”
Many are inches away from quitting because simply…they don’t know what to do.
So does this mean they didn’t have the education or is it that they lack that internal passion to obtain the education. I would venture to say both. What do you think?
Here are some quotes from successful entrepreneurs on the topic that are worth chewing on:
Frank Moss, director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and he also is the former CEO of Tivoli Systems as well as co-founder of Stellar Computer and Infinity Pharmaceuticals:
“I would suggest that the entrepreneurial gene is in everyone’s DNA. Eons before the first big companies emerged about a thousand years ago we were all entrepreneurs: farmers, craftsmen, artisans, storytellers, bloodletters, etc.
I believe that we are all born with the ability to be an entrepreneur, but we have to unlearn the risk-averse behavior that became part of our culture in the developed world over the past 500 years. As information and communication technologies tear down these barriers, we will see a full circle as billions of people will be empowered to express their entrepreneurial genes.”
Mark Veeder, co-founder and creative director of Event Quest in New York City and he also is the co-owner and co-creator of the River Market in Barryville, N.Y.:
“I think entrepreneurs are definitely born. Even though “the making of an entrepreneur” is a huge business in this country with Tony Robbins and the rest, I think those programs try to systematize the mind of the entrepreneur, which is impossible. My feeling is that entrepreneurs are a rare mix, the perfect storm of creativity, talent, confidence, personality, drive, intuition, and energy.
They possess a high EQ [emotional quotient], and their IQ is not as important—it’s a lifestyle, it’s embedded like an instinct, not something you can turn on and off. At times it is a blessing and a curse. While many people are dreamers, a true entrepreneur’s dreams are converted into realities because true entrepreneurs are always creating, always thinking of ideas, mentally evaluating endless possibilities and are excited by the new and the next.”
So are some born with this gene while other’s get the short end of the stick? I keep imaging the movie Twins with Arnold and Danny DeVito. Are some of us just scraped from the bottom of the gene pool toilet and slapped together at the last second like a Big Mac? That doesn’t seem like a good one-liner introduction to a venture capitalist, huh?
What Is My Motive?
I wrestle with the idea that being a creator of a blog that motivates people to want to start a business, do I really have an unbiased opinion. Or am I thinking more about my bank account?
It is easy for me to think that everyone has a chance because that gives me more potential for clients, but am I putting someone in a worse predicament? Am I getting them involved in a business they don’t need, instead of letting them happily work 9-5 the rest of their lives?
Well to be honest if I felt this I wouldn’t continue writing on this blog. I have come to realize personally that we do have a choice, that each person can create their own success and here is why.
Awake That Inner Giant
The reason I discuss this today is because Michael Gerber, author of The E-Myth, came out with a new book recently that talks about this very subject. The name of the book is entitled The Entrepreneur Within.
This book explores the entrepreneurial spirit and how most people put that flame out before they even begin. We go into a business with a mindset that we are taking the remains from an old job and then trying to replicate it again by being the same technician, but now with even more responsibilities as the owner and manager. We lose our passion and don’t develop big ideas because of fear of failure, lack of time, and lack of education.
Gerber said in a recent interview with Business Week, “I believe that every single one of us has the ability to be creative; it is an instinct that we are born with. It is part of our nature that is not very developed. It is my focus to awaken the entrepreneur within every single person that I come into contact with.
I suggest that you can, with focused attention and the intention of actually achieving something. It is what Muhammad Yunus talks about with Grameen Bank and his experience providing microcredit lending to impoverished women throughout the world. It is his vision to awaken the entrepreneur within each and every person, and it is my vision as well. I am doing it. And in the process, the world will be changed.”
Microcredit lending is another fascinating principle that has helped give opportunities to countless lower class entrepreneurs around the world often by lending a mere $20 to help give small businesses a chance to succeed. They provide these women with an opportunity they never would have had before because of lack of credit. It not only helps to feed their family, but it also gives their children a chance at an education and hope to their future.
It is a fascinating principle worth going into on another article, but I suggest you study it a little more. If you feel down about your business or if you believe you are just not a “natural” when it comes to being an entrepreneur then I suggest you take a look at these inspirational women that made literally something out of nothing. If a few US dollars changed their lives, what would a big idea and motivation do for your future?
Who Is The Imaginer?
Probably the most telling statement that Gerber said was that, “True invention and creativity are missing. Where is the entrepreneur who is the “imaginer,” who invents things?”
Why is it that you want to start a business? Is it because you hate your job or want to spend more time on the couch watching football? Or is it because you want to provide value and excitement in people’s lives? Remember Jim Valvano suggested we always need to be passionate about our unique business opportunity.
People generally are fearful of failure, so they have small ideas to hedge their potential of failure, which end up resulting in small results. There is such a thing as goals being too attainable and we call that a job. How outlandish are your dreams? Are you willing to dream big enough to the point that it scares you?
Key By Key
My feeling is that we all have the power within to achieve great things in business or in anything we put our passion toward in life. Remember my piano lessons, was I born a solid piano player when I came out of the womb? No. I had to learn it key by key. I had to learn it measure by measure.
It didn’t come easy. It took sleepless nights and sore wrists even when I hated it, but I grew passionate about it and understood potential that I never knew that I had. Then people looked at me and wished they had that. They called me a natural. It didn’t seem supernatural to me, I knew even at a young age that the difference was that I was willing to do what they were not.
The same goes with anything you want to learn in business. Every aspect can be learned whether that is computer programming, engineering a product, bookkeeping, marketing strategies, or even janitorial work. Some will take longer and require more effort and creativity, but what are you willing to accomplish that your competitor will not?
The root problem with thinking you are born with a talent is that people use that often as an excuse for failure and I think that is dangerous. They look at others and say I could never do that. Instead they should realize that each one of us have singular capability to achieve even beyond our wildest dreams.
If you can overcome this narrow mindedness that we are taught consistently in society then you will one day realize your potential. Task by task you will progress and eventually you will become that successful business owner and live that lifestyle you want. At that point you will realize you always were a successful business owner, but you just didn’t notice it yet.
Self-Doubt Cleanse
A friend described our potential by saying, “You don’t become great, you always were. You just decided to take the crap off that was covering it.”
Washing out the nonsense of self-doubt takes one thing and that is education. Countless hours of education. You need to fill your mind with evidence emotionally and logically that will help support your business plans.
Read books on your topic, skim through related magazines, contact competing business owners, or talk with customers. Do whatever it takes to immerse yourself in the growth of your business.
This will spark new ideas that will consume your mind. People fail because they aren’t thinking about how to build there business, but instead they are undermining themselves by gradually tearing it down thought by thought.
Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor, suggested,“Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.”
As someone once put it, Some succeed because they are destined, and some succeed because they are determined. How determined are you? If your road took longer to achieve success would you travel that extra mile? Are you going to wash yourself clean of all the crap of self-doubt? It isn’t what lies before us, or behind us, but the desire that which lies within us.
This is as much your blog as it is mine and now the blog is yours.
Let me ask you what is your single most important question about a new business opportunity?
What brought you to Write To Right?
What would you want to see more of on this site about new business opportunities that would excite you, but you can’t find?
This is your chance to make this site better one comment at a time. Feel comfortable to express your inner feelings and don’t hold anything back!
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