More and more people are starting a business than ever
before. But many more people than this are held back by two
factors:
A) the employee mentality, and B) most people have not
developed their ability to generate business ideas. Let us
deal with each one in turn.
A) There are many reasons why an employee should want to
start a business but three are worth thinking about.
i) The difference between having your own business and
having a job is the difference between buying a house and
renting a house. If you rent a house you have all the
satisfaction of living in a house, but at the end of the
day you own nothing and can be evicted as quickly as you
became a tenant.
A job is just like a renting a house. However, your own
business depends on you, because you are its owner, and at
the end of the day it may leave you with considerable
personal wealth.
ii) You are a unique person. The vast majority of employers
do not recognise your uniqueness. It is said the universe
is twenty billion years old and will last at least as long
again. In all the time to come there will never be another
person just like you. You are a unique creation.
How does an employer treat a unique creation like you? They
make you fit into a box where the walls are your job
description. Many people before you had to fit into the
same box and many people after you will have to do the
same. You were not created to spend your life following
orders, doing repetitive tasks and being just like other
people.
In contrast running your own business offers you the
opportunity to make unique achievements, to build a unique
business, which mirrors your personality, and to stamp the
world with your mark.
iii) If you do not want to start a business to create
personal wealth or to satisfy your ego then start a
business to help other people.
Every time a person offers others a new product or service,
he or she increases their freedom of choice. There is not a
better way to help other people than by giving them more
freedom. With the extra freedom, the jobs created and extra
taxes paid, it could be argued that founding a successful
business is the most socially useful thing anyone can do.
Instead of choosing between i), ii) or iii) as a reason for
starting a business, all three become interlocked and are a
consequence of a successful business.
B) Most people unfamiliar with starting a business,
struggle to generate business ideas and that's where
subscription to this web site come in. The ideas contained
in the articles on this site will help you to generate
ideas for yourself.
The only difference between people that are successful and
those that aren't is that they took action. Action is the
key to success, without action, your idea will never be
anything more than an electrical impulse locked away in
your brain.
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Nick James is a UK based direct marketer and product
developer. During the last 5 years Nick has sold in excess
of £1.6 Million Pounds worth of products and sevices
online. Subscribe to his Free Tip Of The Week email at:
http://www.Nick-James.com
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