Re-Finding the Entrepreneur Within

Way back in 2008 there was a website entitled BizThinkThank (Now long dead). Within it I discovered many articles that helped me realise who I am and what I can do with my skills.

This article from that site was entitled “The Characteristics of the Entrepreneur”, in which was listed the main characteristics that are typical of people who call themselves entrepreneurs:

• Adrenalin charged.
• Believe in being hands on.
• Can’t work for anyone else – like to be their own boss.
• Can cope with failure.
• Don’t like to be penned in – look for challenges.
• Don’t mind being alone.
• Egalitarian – like to be the boss, but they’re not elitist.
• Future focused – don’t get caught in today.
• Goal oriented.
• Handle rejection.
• Having nothing is no barrier.
• Into self improvement.
• Know how to get around obstacles.
• Like control.
• Like to prove others wrong.
• Manage time well.
• Make decisions even if they are wrong ones.
• Not afraid of making mistakes.
• Often have a naive confidence in their own ability to do things.
• Often launch with very little money.
• Often want to move faster than time.
• Respect staff.
• Retirement is not an option.
• Speak their mind.
• Strong work ethic.
• Takes action.
• Their business doesn’t make them a champion – from an early age, they are champions in the making.
• They tick faster than the clock – they never watch the clock.
• Understand the importance of systems in the business growth process.

It’s an impressive list that all entrepreneurs should take heed of before asking if they are up to the task before leaving their permanent or steady day-jobs.

Whilst I know I don’t have all of these features (and some I really need to re-establish before I get as cynical as the turkeys surrounding me), I can attest to having over twenty of these attributes!

PostScript:

It was this article that made me not only move my articles from Blogspot to WordPress, but also register the domain ‘stephentrepreneur.com‘. For many years I held the domain, but didn’t learn how to redirect my WordPress account to it. For a while I entitled my blog ‘Being an Online Entrepreneur’ because I was. I think it was mid 2011 that figured it out, and the rest is history.