I always ask my clients and people I come across in life that are in business, why? What motivates you to want to be under all that stress of running a business? What’s your motivation for you entering into this world of business? I find all kinds of answers both great and puzzling. I get the opportunity to understand people better and how and what motivates them, could it be for some financial freedom, or for some the opportunity to be part of something and the most common answer I hear is I don’t want to work for someone else. What a great answer for all of them as I look back and engage in conversation with them. I get the opportunity to travel a lot and speak at seminars across the country and meet all different walks of life. What a true blessing. There are so many people and business owners out there we will never have the chance to meet and I feel honored every time I get that chance to talk it up with someone I have never meet.
I want to talk in this article about what it means for us to be in business, what’ in it for you. You need to ask yourself some of these key questions before entering business, why are you doing this? What is the driving motivation for you to start a business, how you have some sort of tragic episode in your life that you just decided to throw in the towel on your 9-5 and become part this movement in our country that seems to be sweeping the nation. You know there were more millionaires made during the great depression than an other time in history, unbelievable, not quite, people were able to have the Forsyth to see the opportunity and seize the moment. Become one of those individuals and business owners. Take advantage of the movement that is out there now. Now I’m not saying take advantage of people but in every down time there is a great chance for us business owners to see and identify the need for people to try something new. In every time in history when things were bad people saw that as an opportunity to change things around. We need to understand what’s in it for us, what it that drives you is, that opens your mind to be able to see the chance to use the resources we have around us.
I notice talking to business owners when things are down and out, and believe me as we all know the economy is bad for some and people are losing their jobs they have had for 20+ years and losing their stocks, leveraging everything they have and just getting stuck in that downward spiral that the world wants us to believe exists. Why not turn it around, look at the opportunities that are now even more available more than ever! They are out there. Go green, do something, use your God giving talents and brains that you have been giving and use them to your advantage to turn things around, again what’s really in it for you as a business owner. Are you in it to change people’s lives or just genuinely love to help people or most importantly are you the owner looking for that next chance to take the risk it takes to become great and become successful? Ask yourself why?
I know I got into business because I saw the chance to seize the opportunity to take something bad (economy) and use it to my advantage to help people understand that there is a chance, its not as bad as people or the news make it out to believe. Did you know that 80% of the American population actually pay their bills on time, but we see on the news that they make it sound like it’s the majority that don’t. Let me give you one example of the housing market crisis, most of your banks wont even talk to you as a home owner until you have defaulted on your home or paid you bills late and then all of a sudden they want to help, but by then its too late! How many of us fall into that category? How many of us truly just want to succeed and be safe for our families and our own stability in life. Business and life sure is unique and as we all know if it was as easy as we would like it to be everyone would be doing business right, so remember be unique find out your true why and maximize your ability to separate yourself from the “herd” of people that think they can and the business owners that know they can. I will leave you with this thought: I had a dream one night of opening a business and for years I had the same dream as if it were real. One night while dreaming I actually saw the business going forward and then saw the end result of it making it and succeeding. The point being, dream it, live it and do it! Thanks for all your reads and remember as they change we change! Take care hope to see you in the winners circle!