If You Really Want to Be An Entrepreneur, Then Get In The Game
Author: Gary Whitehill
Have you met those people who talk about the business they’d like to have one day? They talk about the product or service they’d like to provide and describe the one they would feel comfortable and competent selling and serving to others?
You know them.
They even go to the extent of naming their business and maybe even coming up with a great tagline for it. Maybe they even go further to draw, or better yet, have a logo designed for it.
They talk and talk and talk and talk about it. They talk ad nausea about it. But they never seem to take that essential step: of doing it.
What’s holding them back?
I have watched a grown man show me all of the pieces and part of a business he conceived based on his strengths. It is perfect! It is him: all packaged up and ready to go. And I have watched him cry in front of me when I said, “Oh my God! Why aren’t you doing this?! It’s so perfect! It’s You!”
What’s holding him back?
I’ve listened to a woman tell me over and over again about the business she’s conceived. She’s a baby boomer who is ready to ready to “retire” from her profession and who says she is prepared to do something else. She’s crafted and re-crafted her business. She’s named it and renamed it. When she talks about it, her passion for it is evident, much more than for her current profession. But she continues to postpone her “retirement”, putting up with conditions she truly can’t tolerate, she says, in her current profession and condition.
I ask you again: What’s holding her back?!
It’s fear.
Fear postpones her retirement and makes that grown man cry. To really be an entrepreneur, you’ve got to get in the game. Talking about it is one thing. To be one, you’ve got to do it.
All the riches of being an entrepreneur, all the learnings and life lessons, all the highs, lows, big celebrations, small wins, challenges, character building mistakes and life skill set training come from doing it.
You can’t read it in a book. You can’t experience it while watching television. You can’t get it from merely talking about it.
To find out what you’re really made of and who you are, you must ENGAGE in it to truly feel the feelings – the breathtaking, unbelievable, phenomenal experience that doing it brings.
And believe me, breaking through your fear of doing it is only the beginning.
When you finally do engage, you will learn to make fear your friend, harness it and leverage it to break through your next challenge. And I promise you, you will have another one – and yet another one.
And when fear rears its head again, you’ll once again have to dig down deep and rise up and re-engage over and over and over again. You can only learn to do this when you step into the live life classroom of being an entrepreneur and do it over and over and over again.
So I invite you to step up: sign on the dotted line, take the infamous leap of faith, believe in yourself and your talents and dreams and join the ranks of the entrepreneurs.
Hey, we’re all out here alone together. Get in the game – the real game – and welcome to the fray.
You Can Do It!
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