You have finally decided to take the leap and understood that it is time to get in yourafter so much time spent studying, preparing, and planning for that moment.
No more leaders, no more alarm clocks and no more cards from the stamp. Don't you think it's true you have all this freedom.
Maybe you have just finished taking the course on the same theme that both you heart and now is the time to start the task of your dreams!
Go from employee to aown business it is not a simple job change, but a real life changing. What no one tells you is that, to get ready to make this leap, it is not enough to be very brave or have a passion for a particular activity, this certainly helps but it is necessary to develop a a different way of thinking to her life and work.
What is the entrepreneurial mindset?
Tindset business it means this: to act with an attitude and a entrepreneurial mindset.
Everything is ready: you've got your beautiful desk with the computer, you have new business cards, you've got your new calendar....it is unfortunate that the calendar is almost empty, and appointments with potential customers are still very few.
Those blank pages put quite a bit of anxiety and, as the days go by, you realize that life as a freelancer it's not all roses and flowers as you had imagined: there is the need to find customers, schedule the time, to close the negotiations of the sale, manage the accounting, to promote themselves on social channels and live.
There are moments when you think: “But who made me do? Life by the employee was not so bad...there was the secure paycheck at the end of the month, Saturday and Sunday are free , no one called me for help and I didn't have all these responsibilities on our shoulders.”
Do you recognize yourself in this description? Well, you're in the right place because today I want to talk to you about a subject which is too often underestimated, the fundamental element that discriminates the activity directed at the success from those destined to fail: the entrepreneurial mindset.
What are the characteristics of the entrepreneurial mindset?
The entrepreneurial mindset can you become the parachute that allows you to land on the soft, if you have just decided to open your own business.
The the characteristics of the entrepreneurial mindset are different and necessary to each other to make it our own and develop it to your advantage.
A entrepreneurial mindset can not be separated from these aspects:
• Responsibility: understood as the ability to take responsibility for their own life and their own activities.
• Vision: to have the ability to imagine their activity in the future, with a looks at the long-term.
• Planningit's no longer possible to live day to day, improvising. It is necessary to program all of the activities, by dividing them into types, and giving precise deadlines.
• Objectives: it's important to set personal goals, and for your business and do everything to meet them.
• Balance: the business life is made of many ups and downs, and it is essential to nourish your energy level and preserve the health, trying to to balance work and private life.
• Innovation: to develop the capacity of edit and enhance their products or services, also thanks to the early customer feedback.
• Peer group: it is said that we are the sum of the 5 people we hang out more. Surround yourself with other entrepreneursthat have lived or are living through similar experiences to your own, is a fundamental source of inspiration and growth.
• Value creationthe last point is perhaps the most important of all, the founding core of the entrepreneurial mindset, that is, the constant projection towards other people and the outside world.
I like to say that the leap from a job as an employee to one of his own, implies the passage from “what can I take what I can give”.
In essence it means stop worrying about oneself, having a personal vision and limited to the point
you are interested in the career, salary and benefits, and begin to look at the others, trying to understand deeply how our business can help change the waysolving problems, or carrying the wishes of our customers.
To develop the “big I” means to have a view largera expanded vision, spatial , where personal success is combined with the satisfaction and care of the customer.
How you can train your entrepreneurial mindset, if you just put on your own?
It is not easy to develop a entrepreneurial mindset and come to understand that our activity is a projection from the inside to the outside, a sort of extension of ourselves in the world.
For this reason, it is important to take action!
All the features of the entrepreneurial mindset, of which I have previously talked about, must be trained each day because of this mentality, it becomes more and more solid, and aware.
To which, starting from the first aspect, that of responsibility, you must focus on what depends on you and once you find what is in your power, by the maximum in that field. For example, you may discover that it's up to you to communicate well, what is your new business and train you to explain it in just a few minutes to persons who do not know you. You might be surprised how much it can be useful in this exercise, day by day, you will find the definition for you, and it will become more and more natural to communicate to others what you do!
Dedicate at least once a month, time to think of your tasks and to imagine it in the future is a very important thing to do. If you're a creative person, you can help by making drawings or cropping of the images of the newspaper and creating your personal vision brand.
A plan of action is real as it takes you to perform actions!
For a freelancer is critical to take care of plan your activities in the short and long-term by investing in a planner that you both inspirational and begins to write down the tasks you want to complete in a year and then break them down into quarters, months and weeks. Review periodically the your planner and edit it on the basis of the unexpected or the new things which occur from time to time.
Set yourself and your business goals that are specific and challenging but, at the same time, realistic and measurable. Establish a long-term goal and then, break it up into steps, to make it easier and progressive in its implementation.
Take care of yourself, do not go overboard with the work, giving you hours and condendoti of breaks during the day. Care to sleep, and take the necessary recovery time. Pays attention also to your private lifewithout experience of work only.
And then again, train your innovation capacity, always thinking about how you can improve your products or services. Ask for feedback your customers and write them down. They are cues precious to create a customer service top. When you think of the news, the first to cast them on a large scale, try to do a test, by try the product or service to an existing customer or a new customer, who can then give constructive feedback.
Do not forget that, in the path of workout to strengthen your entrepreneurial mindset, you must always start from your ideal customer and to study in detail all the features: his life, his desires, his dreams, his habits.
Parts by the customer and not from you. Think of what would be really useful, to which product or service could take him to say “Wooow, it was just what I needed!”
Now it's up to you....it is time to no longer have excuses, and start to coach your new mindset from imprenditrore of success!
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