Are you getting into business to give yourself a new job or a life? Here are 5 keys to escaping the job mentality so you can move ahead with your dreams.
From Escape From Cubicle Nation :
1. Start with What kind of work am I meant to do?, not What kind of business should I start? This is a very important distinction that I want you to stop and really think about for a minute. It is related to your greater purpose for being on earth, or if you wish to frame it in corporate terms, your personal mission statement.
2. Forget about permanence. You may choose the right business for the rest of your life the first time. You may not. So don’t lock yourself in… it’s just a business not you.
3. Operate in a state of confident ignorance. If you are racked with self-doubt and think you don’t know anything, chances are you won’t be able to sell or promote your new business. But you can’t get so confident that you actually believe that you know everything or you will fall on your face in a public and spectacular manner.
4. Blow away your traditional thoughts of salary expectations. As an employee, many career decisions are made with salary and bonus in mind…. As an entrepreneur, this mentality is meaningless- you essentially become an investor in your business.
5. Be very open to firing yourself. Don’t become one of those sad “entrepreneurial gamblers” that spends your whole retirement savings, maxes out credit cards, mortgages your home to the hilt and loses your family in singular pursuit of your dream.
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