| America especially had always venerated the | | | | because you can have an income stream, |
| entrepreneur. An individual willing to risk it all on | | | | independent of you time input. Financial freedom. |
| creating their own income stream. No boss, no | | | | And an income stream not in the hands of a boss |
| board, no bank. Just the individual doing it all the | | | | or board. |
| way. The cowboy. (Cowgirl - cowperson?) | | | | However it will be in the hands of a marketplace, |
| This is really what sets the USA apart. I live in | | | | so: |
| Canada, and though we share the same landscape | | | | Top 3 things to look for in your entrepreneurial |
| and border, the Canadian mentality is more...what | | | | search: |
| shall we say... more compromising. An American | | | | 1) Make it something you want to do. Really want |
| (stereotypically) is driven, ambitious, aggressive | | | | to do - this is how you are going to spend most |
| and believes 'I can do it, my way god darnit'. A | | | | of your waking hours, make it something that |
| Canadian is more live and let live and lets just all | | | | drives you. |
| get through this together. | | | | 2) Make sure your business can scale. Up. Examine |
| In business that tends to mean that Canada has | | | | the marketplace you want to be in, can it sustain |
| less per person productivity than the USA. Not | | | | you making millions? You might not ever want to |
| because Canada is less smart or less anything in | | | | make that much. But if you felt like it, could you? |
| any real way, except one. Risk. | | | | And in bad times will that marketplace sustain |
| The stereotypical Canadian will minimize risk (see | | | | you? |
| our banking system which didn't collapse in the | | | | 3) Make sure, I repeat, make sure, you can get |
| economic meltdown, because fat cats and | | | | you time back out at some point in the future. If |
| monopolies that they are, they don't like big risk) | | | | it will always take YOU working at the thing to |
| Now this is generalizing and going for risk after all | | | | keep it going, and there's no way to back you |
| has allowed the USA to virtually bring down the | | | | time out - you have a job, you are the boss and |
| entire worlds economy, and allowed China to put | | | | the employee. You have income, but no life. |
| itself in a very important position economically and | | | | 4) Realize Risk is all. Not money as much as time |
| possibly will have irretrievable hurt the US in | | | | and emotional commitment. You are going to |
| terms of its number 1 ranking for all time - but, | | | | have throw everything you have got behind the |
| thems the breaks. | | | | project. And when it fails (it might) be prepared to |
| Anyway... | | | | throw everything you've got into the next, and |
| Lets get back to the entrepreneur before I ride | | | | the next, until you make it work (it will) |
| off in all directions at once | | | | Risk as in attitude, not as in throwing your family's |
| Its a fact, in terms of business, in terms of | | | | saving at something with no safety net. Not risk |
| lifestyle - a successful entrepreneur has | | | | as in craziness without thought. Risk as in; no-one |
| everything else beat hands down (except A list | | | | else believes in it, no one else sees it, no-one else |
| Male Hollywood actors perhaps ) (Oh and | | | | is prepared to work this hard, no one else can |
| politicians - a free ride all the way - but -) | | | | see how it will possibly work - |
| But an entrepreneur, the concept of an individual | | | | What do they know? |
| making it without the safety net of a job or big | | | | 5) take advice only from those who have what |
| company environment, is risky. | | | | you want. Again I repeat take advice only from |
| Most people have jobs because jobs are easier. | | | | those who have what you want. It doesn't |
| To get.But jobs have no life attached to them. | | | | matter if its your parents, your best friend, your |
| Most people 'work' because they don't like the | | | | rich neighbor, if they do not have what you want |
| risk. Most countries don't do as well, productivity | | | | - in this case, creating an income stream that is |
| wise, as The US because the population avoids | | | | self sufficient unto itself, and that can make them |
| risk. | | | | millionaires. They have no say. |
| Be the cowboy/cowgirl. The wild spirited one. Its | | | | After all these days Frank Kern can make 1 million |
| risky, but its a great life. | | | | or so in an hour - and GM and top wall street |
| Why? | | | | financial institutions are bankrupt. |
| Entrepreneur - The true possibility of financial | | | | If you are not American, then absorb their driving |
| freedom at best and the reality of financial control | | | | spirit enough to make your life financially free. |
| of your life, at worst. | | | | Believe in becoming accountable for your own |
| If you do not control the engine of your income, | | | | future. Absorb the risk. |
| you have no control. If you have a job, you can | | | | When people are financially free they can help |
| be let go fired at any time for reasons that have | | | | others. You have time and money. Its good to |
| nothing to do with your work, or | | | | send money to Haiti or Chile, its better to go |
| accomplishments. | | | | down there and help with your own hands, put |
| If you have a position with a financial ceiling - a | | | | the 'aid' directly into the right hands. |
| job, a tenured position etc, then you can only | | | | Its good to care about your kids. Its better to |
| make what is given, not what you can earn. | | | | have a life where you can be with them when |
| However -If you create your own business, and | | | | they need you because you have created time in |
| you keep at it until it proves successful, and it has | | | | your life. |
| scale (that is your earning ceiling is only limited by | | | | The entrepreneur is a French word - but its |
| your ambition) then you have possibilities. Then | | | | America's gift to the world. |
| you can create a lifestyle second to none, | | | | Take the gift. |