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Entrepreneurship
I have been on this entrepreneurial journey for more than twenty years.
Entrepreneurship
So you think you want to be on an entrepreneurship journey? Or perhaps you are just curious about other people who are entprenreneurs.
Entrepreneurship is made to look glamorous and yet on the whole it is not. Most people if you were to ask them, as business owners they are likely you will be living on a very tight budget, rather than driving around in a Tesla.
As they say the road to Entrepreneurship is littered with the carcasses of the ‘hopeful’. It is a lot of hard work however it can be extremely rewarding both financially and emotionally. However, neither of those things is guaranteed. You get to run your own business, and make your own rules as well as build something special from the ground up. But for every Silicon Valley success story there are thousands of people that will never be a true ‘entrepreneur’.
I have found that the best way is to learn from others. I have run many successful entrepreneurial businesses. And I have made plenty of mistakes. In these blog posts I share the ups and the downs. You may want to subscribe to my Monday Xpresso Newsletter so that you can get a weekly dose of motivation.
So let’s get started on your entrepreneurial journey. Be curious, and have fun – reading and learning about being an entrepreneur.
Different ‘Chapters’ to explore – Entrepreneurial blog posts
Stuck for words: 5 things not to say when a person is grieving.
Grief can happen at the least expected moments, it might be a teenager who has had his or her young heart broken, it might be someone who has just been diagnosed with a life threatening illness, someone who has lost an animal companion, someone going through a divorce...
State of Public Speaking: Who Will Disrupt the "Show up and Throw up" Industry?
This post is part of a series in which LinkedIn Influencers analyze the state and future of their industry. Read all the posts here. How often do you find yourself at a seminar or conference doing your absolute best to listen to the speaker in the front of the room –...
Happy people have one think in common
Here is a challenge for one day only, try not to experience life through a lens - could you?. How wonderful all the tools are that we use to capture glimpses of our lives, but they are just tools - they are not life. Recently, we surveyed close to 2,000 Australians to...
Best Advice: Discover What Is Inside the Book
Book designers are very clever – whenever I walk into my local book store, I am enticed to pick up a variety of wonderful volumes. The vividness of the cover, the style of the title, words all reach me before I have any idea about what is in the book. This was not...
Internships part of a rounded education
As we head into the new tertiary year - with thousands of young people starting at Universities - as employers we sit and wait - hoping that they will come out well rounded individuals ready to face the work world. Internships are a great way to get undergraduates...
What Can We Believe In?
At the very core of what it is to be human is our need to belong I wrote recently for a LinkedIn 'Influencer post'. How we connect to others, our community, family, sporting teams, companies, or country to name a few. Part of our experience of ‘belonging’ is believing...
The Key To Success Is Practice
As we move into 2014 it is very much a time to reflect, review and create. I've never been big on New Years resolutions - but I do always take the time to create a plan. My partner and I also create a theme for the year. This year we have chosen 'Simplicity'. As a...
Are Print and Privacy History
New Year to me is like drawing a line in the sand. It is a moment to reflect and review how much was achieved in the passing year... but also what might happen in the next 12 months. If there is one thing I am absolutely sure of, it is that the rate of change will...