This is the third in a series of three posts on becoming an empowered entrepreneur. The first post focused on connecting with the inner power and strength that is within us all, and changing the limiting beliefs that we are programmed with from childhood which prevent a solid connection and sabotage our lives. The second post addressed finding your passion and your life’s focus. Today I want to talk about assuming the mindset of a leader and developing a lifetime habit of learning and knowledge building, particularly improving marketing skills.
Another important and critical element of becoming an empowered entrepreneur is your mindset. An empowered entrepreneur must learn to assume the mindset of a true leader. You must become a leader in all aspects and all relationships of your life if you are going to be an empowered entrepreneur. Most of us start as followers. As we study and learn and observe empowered leaders we grow into aspiring leaders. We assume more responsibility and self-reliance. Finally as our knowledge grows and our connection to our inner power increases we step forward as leaders in our own right. It is all mindset and it is real. You cannot fake it. Empowered Entrepreneurs are leaders, not fakers. Spend 10 minutes with an empowered entrepreneur and you’ll sense the leadership.
But don’t mistake domination and coercion of others as leadership. It isn’t. It is how the weak attempt to lead. Empowered entrepreneurs never dominate or coerce any follower. They empower their followers with knowledge and encouragement. They are teachers who care about others and want to help them grow and succeed like themselves. Therefore leaders offer value to followers, which is why they attract followers. Leadership, offering value and attracting people to your energy is a sign of a true empowered entrepreneur.
Skill building and expertise are absolutely a necessity to survive in this industry. Empowered entrepreneurs have an absolute hunger for knowledge. At an empowered entrepreneur’s house, you can always spot the entrepreneur because he or she is the one sitting with the family reading while they watch TV. Every empowered entrepreneur has a library full of books, training courses, CD’s and DVD’s.
One area of particular acumen is the area of marketing and sales. If you want to be an empowered entrepreneur you will be developing your sales and marketing skills immensely. That is because as an empowered entrepreneur you will be marketing yourself, your skill, knowledge and the value you bring to others. This will be the core of your appeal and your success. Be ready to become a master marketer my friends if you are to become an empowered entrepreneur.
So are you ready to begin the journey into empowerment as an entrepreneur? Are you ready to become a leader and help others? Are you ready to devote time each day to learning and honing your skills? Only the strongest survive and thrive in this industry. I want you to be a success. I want you to connect with their inner power and become passionate about life.
When I set out to write this article I intended to write about the importance of never quitting, because the top 3 percent, the truly successful Online Marketers and Entrepreneurs NEVER QUIT. But as I thought about it I realized that never quitting is a side-effect of a mindset which is much more fundamental to success. To be successful you can never quit, but what can support you and empower you to continue in the face of severe distraction or even failure? That’s when I remembered Jean Schlipmann and I realized that I needed to write about passion.
You see, Jean is one of the most profoundly successful and committed persons I’ve ever met. Jean is an entrepreneur, but cut from a different cloth. She’s not an online marketer, rather she is the founder and executive director who drives the James A. Schlipmann Melanoma Cancer Foundation, named after her late husband Jim who lost his battle with melanoma. Jean is truly a leader who has drawn the entire melanoma community together and has brought national attention and focused research dollars to curing this devastating disease. I met Jean in Texas two years ago and could sense how committed and driven she was. That commitment came from losing a young spouse to a horrible disease and vowing with all her life energy that she would stop this disease in her lifetime.
I asked Jean what she thought it really takes to be successful. She said, “It takes passion. You’ve got to find your passion and let it drive everything you do. If you don’t have passion, you’ll never get through the tough times running an organization.” And I could sense her passion pulsing through the conversation. It was energy, a dynamic and positive force I could literally feel. Do I even need to tell you how critical, how essential, and how absolutely necessary it is for you to find your passion and use it in your business? Can you imagine how powerful it will be in driving you and your business to success?
Quite simply, passion and commitment are at the top of the list of what it takes to be a successful Online Marketer and Entrepreneur. It’s what truly separates the “wanna bees” from the top 3 percent of leaders in this industry! With this kind of passion, can you see why successful top 3 percent leaders never quit? It’s outside their realms of imagination! Only persistence, carry-through, and success are on their minds.
What’s your mindset? Are you ready to be passionate about what you do? Are you ready to join the top 3 percent of the Online Marketers and Entrepreneurs in this industry? Reach deep inside, what motivates you to work 7 days a week, 16 hours a day? What is it you can commit yourself to that is worth that much energy? What is it that you’ll do or bust a seam trying until it works? That’s where your passion lies my friend. I wish you the very best of success. Go find your passion!
