Entrepreneurial success begins with knowing who you ARE. Unfortunately, many of the success formulas that will be dangled before you will be based upon HAVE/DO/BE.
These advisors tell you that you must HAVE stuff to be able to DO the right things. And if you DO the right things, you will BE a success.
The true formula works exactly in reverse: BE/DO/HAVE. If you will BE who you are in a genuine way, you will DO the right things. If you DO the right things, you will HAVE genuine results.
The best advisors to entrepreneurs focus upon having you plan your life before planning your business.
Michael Gerber, famed author of The E-Myth Revisited, calls this finding your Primary Aim. He puts it this way:
"I doubt that by now you’d be surprised to find out that I don’t believe your
business to be the first order of business on your agenda.
You are.
Nor will you be surprised to hear that I don’t believe your business is your life, though it can play a significantly important role in your life.
But before you can determine what that role will be, you must ask these questions:
· What do I value most?
· What kind of life do I want?
· What do I want my life to look like?
· Who do I wish to be?
Your Primary Aim is the answer to all these questions."
Startup Nation has the same message: “Plan your life, then your business.”
See their excellent discussion of how to make this plan at:
http://www.startupnation.com/steps/55/
3751/1/1/create-life-plan.htm
Look for the download templates of the sample life plan and the template to create your own life plan.
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