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WARNING – Becoming an Entrepreneur may induce feelings of super powers! But if you still want to be your own boss, work in your pajamas when you want, decide which projects you want to pursue, and make your own work schedule, among many other perks, you might want to heed the following words. Making the step away from wannapreneur and becoming an entrepreneur is only as hard as you make it.
3 Steps to Becoming an Entrepreneur
1. Become Your Ideas – Not only your business ideas but the idea of what you want your life to be like. Stop and think about how you want to live, where you want to live, what morals define who you are. All these things overflow into your business ventures. Know what you want for yourself and go live it. Once you’ve decided on your ideal life, it’s time to become your business ideas. By this I mean eat, sleep, and breathe your ideas. Have every detail of the chosen idea you are pursuing ironed down to every little detail and don’t ever let your guard down, the fear ninjas are always waiting to attack.
2. Learn – Executing your idea will entail the use of a variety of skills. Unless you have the deep pockets to outsource all the work, you better be willing to research and learn how to do these tasks yourself. These could range from techinical, people, presentation, and writing skills just to name a few. There are easy ways to conquer the technical aspects, such as using WordPress for your website. But do you know how to use WordPress? Do you know how to implement SEO into your website? Bottom line, there are a lot of skills you will need to possess. When you find you’re lacking in an area, go out and aquire what you need, using the power of your mind. Our website is a great place to start as well. We have tons of articles relating to almost every skill required to run a business or becoming an entrepreneur.
3. Deploy – Once you’ve learned the necessary skills, it is time to put them into action. Jump headfirst into the water and get your MVP or minimal viable product out there. If you’re not a good swimmer (like me), don’t worry there’s no water, it was just a metaphor. The only thing you’ll be drowning from are your decisions. Don’t be afraid to fail, it is part of the Build –> Measure –> Learn process made famous by Eric Ries in The Lean Startup. You might not fail to begin with, which would be great, but either way you always need to be learning how your product or service is percieved by customers and adapt from there.
Becoming an entreprenuer will take a lot of effort, guts, determination, with a little sweat and tears mixed in too. But most would say it’s well worth it.
