Hi Guys!
In this video, we're going to be talking about entrepreneurship.
What is it, how does it work, does it apply to you, and then why you should have a mentor
to get you to where you need to be.
Let's begin with entrepreneurship.
What is entrepreneurship or better said, what is it to be an entrepreneur?
That's a very good question.
And it really does depend who you ask and at which point in your life at the moment.
If you ask any of your family, it's all joining casting around trying to do things.
The definition of being an entrepreneur is you're working in many successful things.
But until you're successful at something you're just all joining casting around over here.
Once you've done something, everybody's like, Oh wow we knew that the whole time we got
right behind you.
So, it's a lose definition.
So, I'm hearing lots of mocking about followed by something that actually takes off.
Really is.
And for me, and particularly looking in the investment that I've put in through for as
long as I've had memories.
It's time, I've spent a lot of time and a lot of projects that went absolutely nowhere
within there.
So, it's investing time.
And it's also for me it's an industry that you can keep melting back from.
You need to have the fortitude to be able to work on this things.
That's what really separates and entrepreneur for me.
It's not when you've eventually become successful or casting around.
If you've got the fortitude, you're an entrepreneur to me, right the way through that journey.
Absolutely.
And actually what you're saying there really resonates because I think the common story
or origin story for entrepreneurs is loads of failure, followed by some success.
How do you keep motivated as an entrepreneur.
It's a very good question.
I'd like to say that there's just an jing within us that has a succeed or die sort of
metric.
That's kind of being mind but look, keeping motivated, having a good sort of family support
is good but it's from what I've seen it's very rare within there.
Until you're successful, then they'll get behind you.
But before then, it really is you pushing it through.
So, if you're finding that you've got the want but you're starting to lose motivation,
and that's where it comes in to getting a mentor.
Getting someone whose done it before because it's like two kindred spirits.
You both go, you can relate on time lost and time spent and motivation.
And you need to just keep your eye on the prize.
For myself, I literally live in the future result as opposed to the time here.
I can ignore everything else and just get to where I need to be.
We know what is being an entrepreneur, we know the idea of being energised by having
a mentor.
Id there anything else you might do for example, finding an entrepreneurial channel on YouTube.
Well, obviously there's my channel, let's check that out first.
For me, even in my downtime when I'm not working on the physical businesses, work with the
direct things, I do a lot of mentor research.
I study a lot of history, I listen to a lot of fantastic podcasts out there as well.
You want to listen to Freakonomics and places like that.
that's me every morning, I get some great ideas there.
But look, I also read a lot of history, I really love the Roman Empire right the way
through.
Even if you just listen to podcasts, all the information is out there about some amazing
people right through history who's been doing this.
Entrepreneurship isn't new and now, go back and look in some really obscure places and
you'll find that tha eventually relates in the business that you're doing here.
So keep researching, keep reading.
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