6 tips for becoming an entrepreneur when you don’t know where to start

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You want to get started, but you don’t feel like you have the skills or the right profile to be successful. Are you in the dark about your idea, maybe it already exists ?! You can’t take this work that takes all of your energy, but you can’t stop it all without a safety net.

If you’re here, it’s because your main job is no longer fulfilling you enough and you want something else: a project that makes sense, that suits you 100% and that has the potential to become your main activity.

That’s good because that’s exactly the point of this article: to allow you to get started without having to give up everything (and risk finding yourself without a safety net).

In this article, I am going to share with you the 6 lessons that are to be displayed at home if you want to become an entrepreneur but do not know where to start.

Lesson # 1: “Better fact than perfect”

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, we are constantly making our lives harder. We want everything to be perfect. Exactly as we imagine it in our head. But since the result obviously does not correspond to what is in our head … well we stop. We don’t do anything anymore.

This is how you find yourself never launching the project you dream of. Not to dare to show your creations. Do not dare to talk about your idea until it is “perfectly defined”. And that’s why you stay in this job that drives you crazy. So in the end … The current situation is far from perfect since you dread Monday morning, that you can no longer see your boss in painting and that you endure your weeks!

So you can do without perfection.

Don’t hesitate to apply this “anti-perfectionism” to your project, your dreams, your desires!

This is what will allow you to go from dream to reality, in a good sense: by bringing your desires to life. Even if the result is not perfect because I remind you that it is only by forging that you will become a blacksmith.

Lesson # 2: You can’t please everyone and that’s OK!

You’ll never be able to please everyone. The proof, even the videos of cute cats collect red thumbs! So, don’t let yourself be blocked by the advice of people who are not in the target of your project or by people who have never dared to create something themselves. Your daring is just a mirror of their own fears.

Lesson # 3: Apply the small steps strategy

Only the strategy of small steps will allow you to move forward. If you focus on the top of the mountain, you panic… and you stay static. This is why you have to take small steps to take 🙂

These small steps are goals to prioritize and commit to decisive actions rather than going all over the place. The results indeed come from the concentration on a few key actions. No scattering over 36 poorly targeted actions. And for these key actions to take place … You have to commit to them. Set the goal and stick to it! Hence the advantage of not having 36 objectives.

The question to ask yourself is: what key commitment am I making to myself for the next 3 months?

Lesson # 4: Every event happens for a specific reason and must serve us.

Successful people have the ability to focus on what is possible to do in a given situation, on the positive results they can achieve. As negative as the effects of the environment are on them, they manage to view them in terms of the possible. These people believe that everything happens for a specific reason, that anything can be useful to them; that each negative event contains an equivalent or greater benefit.

I can assure you that all the people who get amazing results think so.

Lesson # 5: All the ideas are already taken: it’s okay and that’s good!

The moment you have had a great idea but realize that it already exists elsewhere, just as you imagined it to be. This is your differentiator opportunity! And what matters is how you bring this idea to life!

The winning trio for quickly finding your business idea is: expertise, passion and market.

There are roughly two different paths you can take: either find a “classic”, proven business idea that has been around – sometimes for a long time – or find an innovative idea.

In the case of a classic business or in the case where you google your idea you realize that it already exists, know that it is not because there are millions of bakeries that there are has no place for yours. And this is also true for thousands of companies with a proven concept, sometimes for millennia: no need to reinvent the wheel to create a business.