Hi everyone — Takis Athanassiou here. Today’s post is focused on how you can become a better entrepreneur. Take some time and read on…
Do you know how a person who is deeply involved in his/her own problems and daily challenges (either personal or business ones) can develop a growth mindset and an entrepreneur's attitude?
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Like everything else, it is a matter of discipline, focus, accountability, and daily habits. It is a matter of intention and choice.
Besides that, to develop an inquisitive mindset today you need some basic directions to help you shift your existing mindset towards a more open one embracing all the different contradictory elements of reality to balance within unique and readily applicable solutions for everyone.
To start growing such mindset you need to:
Stay Hungry. Staying hungry is an expression coined up by Steve Jobs trying to exemplify that a young entrepreneur should never be satisfied with what he/she is or have. A content entrepreneur is someone who would soon stop doing business due to the lack of ambition and fresh ideas.
Stay Curious. You need to be always curious about what’s happening around in order to find out what’s wrong and how you can correct it. You need to embrace a hacker-like mindset trying to learn more, test the reality against your beliefs and trying to make the systems to do more than the things they designed for.
Develop a growth mindset. A new entrepreneur needs to have a growth mindset that will lead him/her to higher achievements. At the end of the day, you do business with people not with companies. And people with a growth mindset are usually the best candidates for long and prospect business relationships. You should always keep on learning and adjust your behavior based on what you have learned (you can find more information here for the differences between fixed vs. growth mindset).
Ideas. The main fuel of new business are ideas and innovation and these elements can leverage your assets towards new heights. As an entrepreneur, you should be able to find, brainstorm, develop, validate, reject and implement the best ideas possible to the service of the people you have chosen to serve.
Find Problems and check on the possible solutions. As an entrepreneur, you need to develop a strategy to find out the problems concerns your niche market and develop appropriate answers to that.
Check on how new things may solve old problems. You should be constable aware of the new advances and trends can be used for solving old problems in your market. And you should find ways to implement them transparently, and without a friction for the final users.
Be Proactive. You should remove your old responsive business reflexes and start embracing a proactive life attitude towards all things around you.
Think in systems and in patterns within the chaos. Embrace uncertainty as the main constant in your business life and try to find the best dynamic balances and the recurring patterns in the systems, the approaches, and the solutions your sponsored that would support your work and provide more value to your clients.
Exercise free will and independent thinking and find innovative responses and solutions to problems seemingly unsolved.Your originality and authenticity will provide you the boost you need to surpass the ordinary and address to the people you really need to speak about your services and products.
Use Science and Leverage Experience. Try to leverage every insight science can provide you and embed its propositions and suggestions to your services and your products in your niche market. With science, you will also need to leverage your experience in developing better and more effective services and products.
Embrace testing and verification as basic principles of your life. You should never be content with what is given or acquired effortlessly. You should always contact your own verification processes against your reality and verify your ideas to the benchmark of realism all the time.
These 11 strategies even though are the only ones may be able to provide you a solid new mindset that would help you succeed in your business.
In no way, though, are enough, and you should always search for more mental patterns, trends, procedures, technologies or tools that would mutually help your business and provide additional value to your clients.