Live this life 24/7

A serious entrepreneur knows that this life is not a game. Respect is not given out for free, it is earned. It is essential then that your whole mentality to work and its position within your life is clear in your mind. If you really want to make a success of things, you will sacrifice everything else in your world in order to make this work. This means that you must eat, sleep and breathe your work. The weekend is no longer a time to go out with your friends, drinking and having fun. Your weekends now are no longer your own. At the outset there is never a time when you are not “on.” Go over figures, attend negotiation workshops, look back at what you have done and how it can better next time, and educate yourself some more; read all of the trade magazines and the books that have been written by people who were one day in exactly the same position that you are now.

Find a Mentor you will succeed

If you are able to make a strong contact with another more experienced person within your field who you can turn for help and advice on a regular basis, you are starting out on the right road to respect and acceptance. Placing your trust in a mentor shows the people around you that you understand just how important it is to learn from those who have already been there and done all of the things that you are getting ready to face at the start of your career. A good mentor will not only guide you along your way, but they will also be an invaluable source of contacts and essential corporate invitations.

Apply the following principles in your life

Power without character is misleading, Talent without proper management is useless and Ability without humility is destructive The more we rely on God to direct our lives, the closer we draw to our ultimate purpose . . . even if we don’t realize it. Your career should be where your dreams, aspirations, talents, and hopes for the present and future play out.

5 personality traits of action-oriented people

ACTION ORIENTED PERSON I'm an action-oriented person. I take on big goals and go after them full force. I don't like to take too much time to plan and prepare. I believe in the "ready-fire-aim" approach to life. I'm alright with making mistakes and fixing them after the fact. I believe it builds character. In this article, I give you 5 personlity traits of action-oriented people. Here are 5 personality traits of action-oriented people: 1. Doers: They like to get things done. They don't care if they make a mistake; they prefer to get the ball rolling and re-adjust their aim or strategy after they see results. 2. Leaders. They like to be in charge, sometimes with an "It's my way or the highway" approach. They may even be stubborn or arrogant in certain situations. 3. Strong and Decisive: As a result, they tend to take on leadership roles along with great responsibility. 4. Cheerful and optimistic: They're comfortable to be around and often characetized as the "Life of the Party". They might "promise the world" because it's the friendly thing to do. 5. Impatient: They might get impatient with other people who aren't like them. Yet many action-oriented people get along well with process-oriented people because they are able to take charge.

What you need to know?

What’s The Big Idea?—your vision for the kind of success you want to have and the person you want to become • Selling it—when you find an employer or industry that will serve your goals and God’s goals • Writing the Script—making and following your plan through all its plot twists • getting notes—when God gives you feedback and you (hopefully) listen and adjust your course • Development Hell—the times when you hit obstacles and must find a way past them • God’s budget and production Schedule—when you figure out what achieving Your goals will cost and how long it will take • it’s all about casting—figuring out the people you need in your life to bring your story into production • God’s Green Light—when God brings you together with the opportunity you’ve been working toward If you stay true to your ideals, pay attention to the things God reveals to you, work hard, and surround yourself with good people, you will develop. You will grow in faith, wisdom, and ability—and eventually you will reach your goals.

Natural Entrepreneur

In the book, Pollard identifies 12 capacities for natural entrepreneurship: Excellent instincts: "A subconscious ability to sense what is going right and wrong, when you're being told the truth and not, and what is happening that is not being expressed in words, data or written reports. This is close to the concept called emotional intelligence." Critical thinking skills: "The ability to think logically, to assess information and opinions intelligently, to extract and convey insight, to make sense of it." Imaginative skills: "The ability to conjure up, by putting different ideas together, or out of nothing but pure imagination, what is possible, to address needs or problems that arise in the enterprise or are identified by customers or potential customers." Creative skills: "The ability to make the abstract (ideas and imaginings) real, to bring them to life, to make them work in the real world given all the constraints you must deal with." Attention skills: "The ability to see patterns, to scan broadly for ideas and events that could be important and bring them to others' attention, and also the ability to listen, watch and focus the senses on perceiving what is really happening and then, with your partners, assessing what it means." Communication skills: "The ability to articulate, orally and in writing, what you think, what you mean, what you intend and why, and the ability to craft and relate stories… Stories provide rich context and understanding, and are hence more valuable for decision-making." Demonstration skills: "Showing people is usually more compelling than telling them, but demonstration is an art form that requires the demonstrator to put him or herself in the position of the person watching, to anticipate questions and misunderstandings, and to see things from different perspectives." Learning skills: "Every aspect of entrepreneurship entails continuous learning. This has more to do with openness than intellectual capacity. It's about an ability to let go of preconceptions and conceptions and be completely flexible to new ideas and information and possibilities, even if it contradicts what you thought you knew." Responsibility: This includes accepting responsibility for your decisions and for the well-being of your partners in your natural enterprise. In conventional corporations, this would be called leadership. Self-management: "Personal self-management entails self-knowledge, exercising authority as appropriate, seeking consensus as appropriate, and accepting responsibility." Passion: "This starts with your personal passion, and with the opportunity to apply that passion to your purpose. But it extends also to your partners… You need to care not only for what you are doing in the enterprise but also for what the enterprise as a whole is doing and for what your partners care about." Collaboration: "Although there is certainly some individual work in a natural enterprise, much if not most of the work is truly collaborative -- it entails people doing work together, producing work product that is collective, and can't be identified as the work of any individual, and most important, achieving results greater than those that any of the people in the organization, working individually, could possibly have achieved." I can't wait to dig further into this book, because as some of you may know, InnovationTools is only a part-time gig for me, and I would like nothing more than to transform it into a natural enterprise that I can nurture and grow on a full-time basis. The problem is that I lack the understanding of how to make the transition from a full-time job, with a regular salary and benefits, to the sometimes uncertain cash flow and lack of health insurance that comes with being a solo entrepreneur. In the true spirit of entrepreneurship, however, I am in the process of learning how to make this transition.

LES PERSONNES EFFICACES

Aiment ce qu’elles font

Opèrent un investissement émotionnel tares vif dans ce qu’elles font; se réjouissent du plaisir que la réussite apportera et imaginent à l’ avance le désespoir qu’un échec leur causerait.

Jouissent ouvertement du succès et extériorisent leur déplaisir en cas d’echec

S’assurer de l’aide des autres pour atteindre leurs buts

Ont réfléchie a ce qu’elles veulent et l’ont formule clairement plutôt que de se laisser ballotter par les évènements.

Dressent des plans pour atteindre leur but et essaient de surmonter les obstacles venant du monde extérieur ou de leur propre limitations.

Se fixent des buts précis, stimulants, mais réalistes et mesurables, dont des buts accessibles, ni trop faciles, ni trop difficiles.

Evaluent leurs progrès, recherchent du feedback sur la qualité de leur action.

Ont confiance en leur capacités de faire face aux problemes et si les difficultés surgissent, se mettent en mesure de dominer la situation.

Cherchent des situations ou elles peuvent exercer leur capacité

Utilisent l’argent gagne comme indice de la qualité de leur travail, au lieu de le considérer comme un bien en soi ou selon l’usage qu’on peut en faire.

Peuvent persévérer longtemps dans une même direction et supportent les frustrations inhérentes au suces qui se fait atteindre

Refusent de s’atteler à des taches ennuyeuses et routinières qui ne les rapprochent pas du but poursuivi

Sont pleines de ressources, inventives, créatrices, prêtes a fouiller l’environnement pour trouver  les matériaux et les idées dont ils ont besoins

Centrées sur la tache et plus soucieuses de travailler avec des personnes compétentes qu’avec des personnes aimables.