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Aspiring Entrepreneurs: Those Who Talk and Those Who Do.
When it comes to aspiring entrepreneurs, there are typically two types: eternally well-intentioned (those who talk), and inherent (those who do).
Quite simply, Sayers Vs Doers.
“The Sayers”, the eternally well-intentioned entrepreneurs — will spend forever mulling over ideas, excited at the prospects but cementing little, convinced they don’t have the resources, knowledge, time, connections, etc or — and this is typically the big barrier — funding, to get started. They constantly find barriers and excuses. So, they make little progress, doing the same old thing and, unsurprisingly, getting the same old result.
The reality is, entrepreneurs don’t make excuses, get stuck at barriers, or give up. They see any obstacle as an invitation to either find a way or make one.
Thus, “The Doers” — the inherent entrepreneurs — will be so driven by their purpose (a key trait of an entrepreneur I recently wrote about) that they’ll dive-in using whatever they’ve got. The adage that “the best time to start is right now” couldn’t be more apt. That doesn’t mean you should go head first, blindly, all guns-blazing, with ignorance, what it means is that you should just get going, whether that be undertaking purposeful research, checking out your competition, or running your concept past family…