Do You Have What It Takes To Become A Preneur?

Becoming an entrepreneur is not for everyone.

Besides the wonderful benefits of working for yourself,
setting your own hours, and the ability to choose when and
where you work, there are also some challenges.  Sure, it’s
nice not to have to report to your old boss anymore, though
your new inner boss could be a lot tougher, and you may
find that your new inner boss doesn’t have a clue about
time management, budgeting, and niche marketing.

According the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word preneur
is a derivative of the Old French, “entreprendre,” and
means to take.  A preneur is one who organizes, manages,
and takes the risks of owning a small business or
enterprise.  A preneur is someone who has a vision and
wants to take that vision out into the world and see it
come to fruition.  A preneur is someone who wants to make a
difference in the world and is willing to do whatever it
takes to make that happen.

Top 10 Characteristics of Preneurs

Fortunately, for those who are considering whether or not
to become a preneur, psychologists, sociologists, and
historians have been studying the behavior characteristics
and traits of successful preneurs for long enough to have
come up with a composite list of attributes and
characteristics.

Read the list and mentally keep count of how many times you
said, “Yes, that’s me!”
1.  You have a strong desire for autonomy, to be your own
boss, and live life on your own terms
2.  You are an independent self-starter, not needing or
wanting others to tell you what to do
3.  You have a powerful drive to make money and accumulate
wealth
4.  You are a calculated risk-taker with a higher than
normal tolerance for failure and consider failure a non
issue
5.  You like to be in control and call the shots.  
6.  You are highly self-motivated, and are indefatigably
fearless when it comes to getting the job done
7.  You had childhood experiences as a budding entrepreneur
and/or entrepreneurial parents, grand parents, or relatives
8.  You have a high level of energy that is sustainable
over a long period of time
9.  You are creative and innovative; a strong decision
maker, able to think quickly on your feet, and set things
in motion
10. You are a big-picture thinker capable of seeing how
everything relates to each other

So, How’d You Do?

How many “yes, that’s me!” answers did you have?
1-3:  Don’t quit your day job.
4-7:  Call a coach, start saving start-up money, get the
gears in motion!
8-10:  Watch out, Donald Trump!

Entrepreneurs are extraordinary people.  They value
freedom, autonomy, independence, and control.  They are
creative, driven self-starters, who have plenty of good
ideas and are ready to do what needs to be done to make
things happen.  They have courage and conviction in spades,
and don’t see failure the same way that other people do.
To them, what lies within failure is the answer to what
they need to do in order to become a success.  They know
that within every problem is a solution.

Preneurs understand that the ARE the business.  They are
its originator, its motivating force, its drive, and its
energy.  They are remarkable in their inner toughness and
strength that aids them in rising above all the self-doubt,
apparent failures, and din of their critics.

Being an entrepreneur is what we are all about, folks.

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Susan L Reid, MS, DMA, Online Accidental Preneurâ„¢ and Small
Business Start Up Coach is the soon-to-be author of The
Accidental Preneur:  Discovering Your Inner Samurai.
Transforming start up woes into start up goes, she provides
value, inspiration and direction to entrepreneurial women
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