What is an entrepreneur? You are. Whether you own your own business, or you work for an employer, you are the one who has total control over your success and your performance.
In today’s economy, people need great value. Customers need a perception of good value in order to continue their patronage and employers need value to help them achieve their goals.
When you learn the skill set of an entrepreneur, you will discover the ability to create abundance for yourself.
- Entrepreneurs take responsibility for their lives
- Entrepreneurs make and keep commitments
- Entrepreneurs maintain a positive attitude of gratitude
- Entrepreneurs go after what they want in life
- Entrepreneurs invest in constant self-improvement
- Entrepreneurs act as if it were impossible to fail
- Entrepreneurs are unsatisfied with past successes
- Entrepreneurs see opportunity
- Entrepreneurs take action
- Entrepreneurs seek guidance to learn from the wisdom of others
Look for the chance to exceed your customers’ expectations. (Customers are defined as anyone who you provide a service to, including those who buy your goods and services, as well as your coworkers, employers, employees, family, and friends.) The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than what is expected of you.
Work hard, stay optimistic, stretch yourself, and continue to ask my favourite four words … “How Can I Help?”
Take for example the following great story, from AP Associated Press (January 28, 2009), which demonstrates employees with entrepreneurial thinking. This one’s on the house.
” Workers at a Michigan pancake restaurant decided to work a day for free. It was their way of helping Mr. B’s Pancake House and owner Dave Barham. Business had slowed, so lead server Mary VanDam asked her fellow employees if they would work a day without pay. Everyone from cooks to busboys, 17 people in all, didn’t get paid for the day shift one Sunday. They worked for tips only. Many customers left a little more on the table when they heard about what Mr. B’s workers were doing. The tips were divided equally and each of the restaurant workers took home 51 bucks.”
The struggle to improve, the journey to get there, and the self-appreciation of one’s new skills is the reward in and of itself. Financial gain is just a by-product.
Thinking like an entrepreneur benefits you and those who you serve in your profession and in your life. You deserve the very best, so give it to others, and it shall return to you.
Penny
“I will not allow yesterday’s success to lull me into today’s complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.” Og Mandino
