What sets highly successful entrepreneurs apart from ordinary and wannabe entrepreneurs?
Highly successful entrepreneurs become that way by cultivating some qualities or habits that guarantee them the realization of their desires. Entrepreneurial network, EFactor, has carried out a series of studies of some of the most highly successful entrepreneurs. These observations have established that there are some distinct habits practiced by practically every successful entrepreneur. Following are 7 habits of highly successful entrepreneurs:
1. The Habit of Dreaming
Successful entrepreneurs are prolific dreamers. They are always considering new and more efficient ways of doing things. This leads to the creation of solutions to problems facing humanity. This can explain why successful entrepreneurs can achieve phenomenal success in many different areas and are likely to build successful ventures one after the other.
2. The Habit of Discipline
Successful entrepreneurs will have developed a disciplined way of life. They are likely to do some repetitive things in about the same way at the same time of the day. They sleep and wake up at particular times, carry out their business planning activities for specific times, work on a specific number of business ideas at any one time and demand a certain level of discipline in their subordinates.
3. The Habit of Passion
Once they settle for an idea, successful entrepreneurs develop a fire or passion for the idea. Without passion – sometimes extreme passion – success can be a constant mirage. You see the possibilities somewhere in the distance, but you don’t make any headway.
Passion means that you have an unexplainable conviction that you have to accomplish what you have set to achieve. It is the fuel that keeps you moving even when everything suggests that you have lost.
Passionate people have faith in themselves and their ability to achieve the one thing they set their minds to achieve. The combination of passion and faith keeps an entrepreneur on the course that he must follow to get to his destination.
4. The Habit of Learning
Successful entrepreneurs are constantly on the lookout for new knowledge. They know that change is constant and they are at the forefront to find out what is changing or what needs to be changed.
By being open to new knowledge, successful entrepreneurs are able to stay ahead in business by offering new solutions to old problems or new solutions to problems that they can foresee.
5. The Habit of Courage
Courage is a habit that successful entrepreneurs develop to help them move from an amorphous idea to tangible achievement. Courage leads successful entrepreneurs to continuously do everything necessary to prop up their ideas and find support for them for as long as is necessary to realize success.
6. The Habit of Delegation
Highly successful entrepreneurs know that they do not have all the knowledge that they need to succeed. They also know that they do not have all the resources they need to achieve success. Because of this knowledge of their limitations, successful entrepreneurs are willing to get other people who are better than them in specific ways to complement them and help them realize the success that they seek.
This ability can be looked at as a form of delegation. Successful entrepreneurs become so by delegating as much as can be done better by others so that the end result is better than it would be if they insisted on doing everything.
The business world today is full of experts and there is always someone who can carry out any task better than you. Look for and partner with resource persons and organizations such as EFactor so that you can put your time into doing what only you know how to do – leading your business to success.
7. The Habit of Persistence
Successful entrepreneurs have the habit of persistence in doing the things that they do. They know what they have to do in order for success to happen and they will keep doing these things until success makes its clear appearance. Persistence means that successful entrepreneurs will mind the other six habits above continuously until what they seek to achieve happens.
While every human being is potentially an entrepreneur, only a small portion of the population achieves the status of highly successful entrepreneurs.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Michele Defulvio
