Do You Have An Entrepreneur or Employee Mindset?

Do You Have An Entrepreneur or Employee Mindset?
By Sandy Armstrong

How does an entrepreneur think differently from an employee? Is it that they have an idea for a product or service that they wish to provide to the consumer base? IS it the fact they are willing to risk their own money to build that dream?

Knowing the answer will not turn someone into an entrepreneur. To become an entrepreneur you must understand and engage in "The Entrepreneurial Mindset".

At the turn of the century there were more entrepreneurs than employees. Business owners working their own businesses. Now the majority of adults are employees, working for an entrepreneur.

A shift in the economical structure reversed the situation. We went from a rural agricultural society to an urban based industrial society.

Combined with two world wars, mobilization through planes, trains, and automobiles, the "job" opportunities popped up like whack-a-moles at a carnival. It became more desirable to work for someone else than to take the risk of starting your own business. Where the failure rate is the same for online and brick and mortar. 95% fail!

So comes the era of "go to college", "learn a skill", work for 40+ hours a week, for 40 years, to live on 20%? of the income that you became accustomed to. Then you retire when you are 67+ years old. Maybe by then you are experiencing old age related issues. (Not that 67 is old, now-a-days it should be the new 50!)

It is just easier for people to work for someone else, knowing they will get that paycheck (plus benefits if you're lucky), every 2 weeks.

Think about this... That boss you report to everyday has the confidence in YOU to perform the job necessary to make the company you work for to make a profit.

WHY don't YOU have the confidence in yourself to make money for yourself?

Not so surprisingly, most employees surveyed are NOT happy in their J.O.B. They do it for the paycheck and benefits every 2 weeks. They have all the debts we all do and are on a budget, we've all been there.

It's just easier than to risk everything on your own dreams. It's easier to just wish and hope for more than to actually attempt to achieve it.

Entrepreneurs start out with the same fears and concerns as the employee, after all, they probably were employees first. They overcome that mindset by believing in themselves. They know they are the ones making that corporation they work for money! They know their own value, and they invest in themselves and do what it takes to show the world their value as a leader.

They no longer think like worker bees, they develop the characteristics to stand out in a crowd as an alpha.

They are ones who truly act outside the box. They know there is a better way and work to make that happen.

They are problem solvers.

They are innovative at their approach to bigger and better things.

Sadly, everyone is born this way, but it is stifled. In our learning years we are taught there is a right way and a wrong way to do everything. We are not allowed creativity in our informative years. Perhaps entrepreneurs never grow up. Perhaps we are all children at heart and have the confidence to pursue our dreams.

Thank god for entrepreneurs...

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