Your capabilities are defined by your specific motivations, traits and skills. Understanding the inventory of your own motivations, traits and skills helps you understand how you behave and make decisions even under the extreme pressures you will encounter as an entrepreneur. Understanding motivations, traits, and skills also enables you to better help teammates be and others successful in their decision making by understanding on their motivations, traits and skills. With this specific set of knowledge you can understand how to act and share decision making in more complimentary and less stressful ways (our session 8 on Relationship Building will expand on this).

Everyone becomes an entrepreneur for reasons that excite them, but most of these reasons are not powerful enough to enable someone to succeed in completing the arduous entrepreneurial journey. It is very important to know your real reason for thinking entrepreneuring could be good for you. You can then figure out whether your reason(s) are powerful enough to believe you have the motivations to overcome the struggles inherent in becoming a successful entrepreneur.

Today, over one billion people around the world are trying to start businesses or are running businesses they founded. You are not alone in thinking about entrepreneurship. Of course, that’s both a good thing and a bad thing. It’s good because we know so much about entrepreneurship. We know many things that will make almost anyone’s entrepreneurial journey less risky and stressful. It can never be no-risk or no-stress because no matter how well prepared you are because there are things you cannot predict and prepare for. Entrepreneuring will never be a sure thing.