What Does it Take to Be a Successful Entrepreneur?
July 2nd, 2009Many people I have had the pleasure to meet are in business for themselves. As a consequence of the many challenges of never having a steady paycheck, these people are presented with numerous opportunities to self-evolve. When I think about it though, are we not all in business for ourselves, even if we work for another organization? The people who make a difference within an organization, those who contribute from a place of wholeness and integrity are most definitely entrepreneurs. They perceive the possibility of something great when everyone around them only perceives what is broken or hopeless. My thoughts for this newsletter take me to a few of the gems that have assisted me throughout a career spanning over thirty years as a entrepreneur. These seven precepts are what saved me during the darkest times of uncertainty, and they hold true to this day:
- Align your work, whatever it is with your values. Know what is really important to you.
- Live your values in thought and in action. This builds self esteem and self worth.
- From a deep foundation of self worth your character will be built.
- Your character will act as a magnet for opportunity.
- Design your beliefs to support your possibilities. Mediocre beliefs will produce mediocre results. Learn the technology to shift from limiting belief patterns to un-limiting ones. Your beliefs will drive your passion or kill it.
- Embrace the attitude even when you have no experience to support it.
- Don’t wait for things to happen; invest your money and time in things that will help you succeed. You are the source, not the recipient, of life.
The most important decision you will ever make in business, is the sale of your worth to yourself. To create professional success requires you to immediately and continuously take ownership of the power that is you, and the only moment of power you will ever have is now. Once now is gone, you have missed the opportunity forever. Act as if your every word, thought, and action were building the success of your tomorrows, for in truth they are!

Love & Light
Gary De Rodriguez

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