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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
What Is Your Legacy?
As the year draws to a close - one begins to reflect on the year, it's ups and downs - and then what the next year might look like. I have not been blogging quite as often - simply because I have been setting aside that time to write a book. One of my highlights for...
Where Are the Dadpreneurs?
I was interviewed earlier this week by a senior journalist and at some point in the conversation the word "mumpreneur" was uttered from her lips. I said with great indignation in my voice “Really!" – why would you use such a word to describe women earning an income at...
No Time for Fun At Work: Then ‘Get a Life’!
Oliver Burkeman’s piece in the NY Times, “Who Goes to Work to Have Fun?” on 11 December says 'enough of this orchestrated 'fun at work'. But I say — if we are not enjoying ourselves — then what is the point? One could argue, as Oliver does, that work is work. And as...
Four Lessons for my Younger Self
I remember my parents trying to impart wisdom upon my younger self – and my busy little brain was saying something like: "Yeah, yeah, sure, whatever." And now when I do the same with my teenagers, I think I can hear inside their heads muttering the same thing. So at...
"Go, Dog. Go!": The Best Book Is the One that Teaches You to Love Reading
“Hello.” “Hello.” “Do you like my hat?” “No I do not like your hat!” “Good bye” “Good bye” I remember the words written by P. D. Eastman off by heart – even though it is close to half a century since I first delighted in the words and pictures of ‘Go Dog Go’. The book...
The more you persist the more I’ll resist – Inspirational
Tell me I "cannot" do, be or have something – and that is the surest way to inspire me into action as I recently shared with the LinkedIn influencer program. What inspires me is simply when the ‘impossible becomes possible’ – to tackle a problem and never give up, no...
Nine life lessons distilled from 770 blog posts
I was recently asked as part of an awards process to outline the lessons I have learned from starting my own business in 2001. I then referred to my blog to find out that of the 770 blog posts I have written - 164 of the posts have been dedicated to 'Lessons Learned'....
Technology is at the heart of all businesses – embrace it
As I shared late last week with my LinkedIn community. I found myself sitting in the auditorium of the NSW Parliament Building to participate in the Pearcey Foundation's 2013 Technology Entrepreneur of the Year awards. (I was there to be honored by being named the...