Do you want to know if you really have that entrepreneurial spirit?

 

We show fifteen signs that demonstrate whether you are really an entrepreneur.

 

1. Freedom will always be more important than safety. This is the principle that builds the life of every entrepreneur. While most seek a salary and job security, the entrepreneur is willing to give his life to achieve the long-awaited freedom. In fact a true entrepreneur feels free to build their projects and businesses. If your priority is to be really free, i.e. you have no interest in seeking something «safe», the entrepreneurial DNA runs in your blood.
2. You are an enemy of the establishment. You are someone who wonders everyday why people do the things they do. You are trying to improve everything and are willing to transform reality through your ideas. In conclusion, you avoid at all costs being part of the status quo.
3. You believe in yourself and your projects. Have you ever met an entrepreneur who is pessimistic and his/her self-esteem is at rock bottom? If you have no confidence, how can the world believe in yourself? True entrepreneurs are optimistic about everything that surrounds them. They live under the principle that «Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn, but you never lose.»
4. You are incredibly passionate. Have you ever been called crazy? You work on your projects and receive no financial reward in return, most people would think twice. There will be times when you spend too much time at work and earn nothing. Your passion is what will drive you not give up.
5. You pursue your dreams no matter the price. Maybe you belong to the select group of people who left the university as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Leaders, who paid a price, rowed upstream and became legends of the entrepreneurial world.
6. You are very persistent. You never take «no» for an answer. A real entrepreneur never gives up. They fight and persist until success. Those who do not carry in their blood the entrepreneurial code, throw in the towel, despair at the lack of results and return to the terrible routine.
7. You hate the idea of ​​working to enrich someone else. Do not worry, you are not alone. I personally hate the idea of ​​getting a job; entrepreneurs seek a thousand ways to spend their time building ideas that make life easier for others. We detest being employed and this is part of our entrepreneurial genetic … do not take it as a sign that you are a bad person. It is simply in your DNA to be free; a job makes you a slave or prisoner of routine. This sometimes can bring some problems; you have always challenged the authority, that’s why you had problems with your parents, bosses and even your teachers at school.
8. You know in advance that losing is an important part of the process of success. Your nature is competitive and you are willing to lose. You know that every new beginning is a chance to shake the dust from your failures and start with greater wisdom. After all, you understand that those who have risked to achieve their dreams, no matter how many failures obtained, ended getting success.
9. You invest in you and your financial education constantly. You love educating yourself, actually studying more than many people who are at University, you had to read more books than you read at school and you are constantly looking for courses, conferences and workshops that make you grow as a person and of course as an entrepreneur. In your personal philosophy you support the idea of ​​»empty your pockets in your mind, because your mind will fill your pockets for life».
10. You see opportunities everywhere. You build businesses in your head at the speed of light. I will give you an example: you look at empty premises and are curious about its price, and immediately you think what business would be feasible to install in that place; you already know who your suppliers will be and note the phone number to schedule an appointment with the owner of the premises. You are able to see opportunities where others see chaos.
11. Your communication skills are amazing. You are a person who likes people. You have no problem to communicate. You are able to socialize and build strong relationships within minutes. These amazing abilities allow you to get special negotiations and close deals that make your projects grow.
12. You are often studying the life of business legends. You consider being heroes’ characters like Steve Jobs, Robert Kiyosaki, Donald Trump, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, among many others. You know their life, quotations and projects, apart from identifying similarities with fragments of your story with passages, which they lived. You know that having a point of reference is the key to getting better results. Therefore you have the premise that «An intelligent person learns from his/her own mistakes, but a wise person learns from the mistakes of others».
13. Surely you were a child entrepreneur. You sold things when you were little, you installed small businesses as a lemonade stand, started a garage sale or you sold candy instead of eating it. When there were sales in the classroom hall, you were one of the best sellers. And not to mention how good you were playing Monopoly. Looking back and connecting the dots, you realize that you have always been an extraordinary entrepreneur.
14. Your determination is impressive. Definitely you are determined, you make the impossible possible. It seems you are a magician, but only you know the key to success is persistence combined with determination and a great deal of discipline. The real entrepreneurs do not give up until they succeed and are not satisfied until they have reached the top. Determination is one of the main differences between entrepreneurs and everyone else.
15. A born leader Perhaps this is the most important of all the qualities an entrepreneur has. Being a born leader means being someone teachable, responsible and humble. Receiving instructions and orders is not part of the entrepreneur’s genetic code; by contrast entrepreneurs are self-taught, which makes us capable of taking responsibility for our successes and failures in projects. Most are trained to follow instructions and third parties control their time, though business leaders value their independence and time as anything else. Being leader does not mean you are the most knowledgeable person in your business, it means you know how to surround yourself with smarter and capable people than you.

 

Once you have discovered your inner potential entrepreneur now you have to believe in yourself and in what you are capable. For now here are a few short phrases that will help you strengthen your self-esteem and thus give the impulse to entrepreneurship:

 

• Do not say «I can not» even joking, because the unconscious has no sense of humour and will take it seriously, therefore it will remind you this every time you try.
• If you believe in yourself completely, there is nothing that is beyond your possibilities.
• People with high self-esteem do not need to feel superior to others; they do not need to be compared with others. Their joy comes from being who they are and not from trying to be better than others.
• Productive achievements are the result and expression of our self-esteem.
• You have within you everything you need to overcome the challenges of life.
• People who think they are not able to do something; they will never do it, even if they have the skills.
• Never leave anyone in the world tells you that you can not exactly be who you are.
• The satisfaction of the need for self-esteem leads to feelings of self-confidence, worth, strength, capacity and adequacy, of being useful and needed in the world.
• God would not have given you the ability to dream without also giving you the opportunity to turn your dreams into reality.
• If you believe in yourself completely, there is nothing that is beyond your possibilities.
• Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
• Always transform a negative situation into a positive one.

Source: Business and Entrepreneurship