Are You A Entrepreneur?

When this questions was raised to me, I was hesitated.  The first reaction was, yes.  I am an independent financial service professional, and also running direct marketing business.  I guess I am.  But second thought, is it what you do to make you an entrepreneur or who you are?  Today, I found my answer when I am reading Dan Kennedy’s book, here is what he says:

“In my early experiences in direct and multi-level sales, I quickly found out that most of my distributors (even though they were 5 to 25 years older and more “mature” than I was) could not be relied on even to have the appropriate literature samples, and other materials with them at presentations! If I wanted prospects handled properly, I had to take steps to make up for the others’ lack of organization, discipline, and reliability; I had to have extra supplies on hand.  This business taught me the importance of self-reliance, and the futility of relying on others.

The sooner you arrive at accepting 100% responsibility for everything, the more successful you will be.  Go take a look in the mirror.  There’s the man or woman – the only man or woman – who can make you happy, thin, rich, famous, or whatever it is that you aspire to.  Dr. Phil can’t make you thin, McDonalds doesn’t make you fat.
The power you need and can have as an entrepreneur comes from eschewing all excuses.  Never blaming the economy, the government, the competition, the timing, your parents, your school, or anything or anyone else for anything.  Ultimate power comes from accepting total responsibility.  When you believe as I do that circumstances control other people but not me, then circumstances won’t control you either.”

— Dan S. Kennedy

In My Story, I mentioned that I read a news about a foreign trained rocket scientist ending up selling cinnamon buns in the subway in Toronto.  The media is using the story to blame the government for lacking of helping immigrants settling.  On the contrary, I was inspired by the story and took the steer wheel of my life in my own hand.

If you don’t like who you are, or what you do, change it, now.  I really hope that the rocket scientist has the opportunity to read this post.

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