Entrepreneurial motivation

ENTREPRENEURSHIP is a spirit; leadership is its soul while society is its body. Without the spirit, the body is dead!

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin

“I see potential in you, make it kinetic! Your gift is your lift, stay lifted!” – thinkUP

The entrepreneurial spirit which is characterized by positivity, creativity, innovation and risk-taking empowers dreamers to become doers. To know and not to do is really not to know. “Entrepreneurial doing” requires not only raw intellectual horsepower, creativity and passion; it takes vision, massive and coordinated action, dedication and synergy to get a lot done in our lifetime. Write the plan and make it plain. Your gift is your lift. You brought a load of gifts to the world; live loaded and die empty!

This article is dedicated to all entrepreneurial leaders who out of nothing, strive to create something. Your commitment to thinking, which is the hardest work there is, is a paradigm shift from the popular opinion that only a few people engage in active and purposeful thinking. Mindset (a habitual way of thinking) separates the best from the rest. Your mentality and the instrumentality of your mind which produce vision and innovation respectively are forever needed by mankind, on a daily basis, to transform, inspire, motivate and educate. The habit of thinking daily and acting strategically to execute plans that bring both impact and profit is no doubt, the hallmark of the twenty-first century Entrepreneur. ‘Creactivity’ is the new parlance – the consistent use of the creative ability to birth new ideas, concepts, products, processes and businesses etc.

Many individuals leave their creative abilities at the mercy of inspiration, which is temporary. So, on days when they are inspired, they can do some creative work. But when they are not, they are left helpless. That’s not the kind of reality we want, so we need to find a better way. There are individuals who consistently summon their creativity anytime they need it. They don’t just hope to get inspiration, they create inspiration. These individuals are the creactive ones. Creactivity (manually generated inspiration), is the alternative to inspiration. Imagine if you have to drive a car and the only available one is the manually controlled type; what will be your excuse? – You only drive auto? Inspiration is automatic while Creactivity is manual.

A short story

At age 5 his father died. At age 16 he quit school. At age 17 he had already lost four jobs. At age 18 he got married. Between ages 18 and 22, he was a railroad conductor and failed. He joined the army and washed out there. He applied for law school he was rejected. He became an insurance sales man and failed again. At age 19 he became a father. At age 20 his wife left him and took their baby daughter. He became a cook and dishwasher in a small cafe. He failed in an attempt to kidnap his own daughter, and eventually he convinced his wife to return home. At age 65 he retired. On the 1st day of retirement he received a cheque from the Government for $105. He felt that the Government was saying that he couldn’t provide for himself. He decided to commit suicide, it wasn’t worth living anymore; he had failed so much. He sat under a tree writing his will, but instead, he wrote what he would have accomplished with his life. He realised there was much more that he hadn’t done. There was one thing he could do better than anyone he knew. And that was how to cook. So he borrowed $87 against his cheque and bought and fried up some chicken using his recipe, and went door to door to sell them to his neighbours in Kentucky. Remember at age 65 he was ready to commit suicide. But at age 88 Colonel Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Empire was a billionaire.

Moral of the story: ATTITIDUE – A positive attitude will make you fit for the feat and to defeat. “Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” – Denis Waitley

Don’t let your past experience control your future. It’s never too late to start all over. NEVER GIVE UP NO MATTER HOW HARD IT GETS. You have what it takes to be successful. Go for it and make a difference. No guts no glory. It’s never too old to dream!

Food for thought

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” – Ken Robinson

“Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be”. – John Wooden

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear”. – Jack Canfield

“Courage is not having the strength to go on it is going on when you don’t have the strength”. – Theodore Roosevelt

“Business opportunities are like buses – there’s always another one coming along”. – Richard Branson

“I again saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift and the battle is not to the strong, and neither is bread to the wise nor riches to those of intelligence and understanding nor favor to men of ability; but time and chance overtake them all”. – Ecclesiastes 9:11 AMP

Above all, it is vital to understand that there is virtue in honest toil and patience. Trying to succeed ‘outside’ of God’s timing always ends chaotic. God’s timing is not in man’s hand; my times, your times, are in God’s hand. He makes all things beautiful in his time, wait for it. God has his own sense of timing: He has perfect timing: never early, never late. God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.

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