A Guidebook to becoming an Entrepreneur

If you want to make money while you eat, while you sleep, while you work an unrelated job, while you learn, and while you have fun then you must embrace the mindset of an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs innovate, create, and find new ways to monetize. They identify problems and establish solutions. From there, they do people a favor by spreading their solution. They add value to the world. And so can you!

In fact, you have an advantage over established entrepreneurs and big business: You can be more efficient and more effective than the big guys.

Unlike big reputable organizations with brands to protect and liabilities to preserve, you can act quickly. Realize that you can spend 1% of your time strategizing while big corporations spend 60% of their time doing strategy. You have no bureaucracy to tie you up so go out and do, spend 90% of your time doing stuff, selling stuff, calling people, acting!

Achieve with:

1. Growth through creativity
2. Growth through direction
3. Growth through delegation
4. Growth through coordination
5. Growth through collaboration

Be flexible and add to your income income through:

1. Freelancing (babysitting is freelancing too!)
2. Bargaining (ask for a raise)
3. Renting/leasing (extra supplies, equipment, property, resources)

Want to learn more about thinking like an entrepreneur? Check out The Successful Entrepreneur's Guidebook by Colin Barrow, Robert Brown, Liz Clarke. I really enjoyed the read and it is incredibly inspiring.