Category: Entrepreneurialism

• SHIFT YOUR THINKING. This is the key to success. You must shift your thinking. For me, I always start out with remembering that I “GET” to be an entrepreneur, to work for myself, to set my own hours, to get things done when I choose to get them done. I’m at my desk right now because I made that choice and that decision. When you shift your thinking and focus on your WHY and the fact that you have the POWER to control your thoughts, you can easily turn it around.
• USE A TIMER. For those of you who know me, you know I work with a timer – in my case, either the one on my I-phone or my famously branded egg timers, LOL! So, once I make the decision that, whether or not it’s a holiday, work will get done – I immediately make a list of priorities – I make a decision on how much time I will dedicate to that list – and I make a decision on when I will get to my desk. I’m an early morning person – so I came right in off the porch and got to work. I will remain

I can only imagine what it would be like to be stuck as an entity that cannot progress in my desired activity of choice. How delusional and miserable it would be to try so hard just to remain in the same position year after year. Truthfully many persons struggle with the realization that their life has become nothing more than a revolving door with no way out. This is not the way life is supposed to be. Now I ask again, Entrepreneurship or workforce?, YOU CHOOSE! I want to take a split second to identify two keywords before we get started. The first word is Entrepreneurship which can mean a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. Second I will define the word job. A “Job” is a PIECE of work, especially a specific task done as part of the routine of one’s occupation or for an agreed price. A job may be defined as anything a person is expected or obliged to do. Simply put nothing more than a duty; A responsibility.

Unbeknownst to me, I began a decade long journey gaining knowledge towards my quest to freedom. Despite how … Read the rest

I recently attended in our community a weekly trade fair where I viewed a number of retirees sitting at tents and behind tables selling their wares to consumers – through conversations I learned that several were doing this in an attempt to maintain at least a subsistence level of monthly income to help pay their rent, costs of prescription drugs and other basic monthly costs.

Doing some research on this recently, I learned that standard Canadian pensions (CPP and OAS) at the rough maximum a married couple can expect to receive if both people worked their lives through, nets them collectively about $22,000 per year. Now, if you were born in 1958 or later, you also don’t collect OAS until you are 67 – not 65 any longer. This contributes to the need for many of the elderly to work to later years in life in order to survive retirement financially – as the average retired middle-class couple owning their own home, require statistically, approximately $40,000 per year to live comfortably. Supporting this, a recent Bank of Montreal survey shows 59% of respondents stating that they will have to supplement their pension incomes through continuing to work after retirement.

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Basically, a traditional entrepreneur is in the risky business of undertaking some sort of enterprise, typically for one and only purpose of financial gain. It doesn’t matter if the business is suffocating the economy with Chinese plastic disposable toys that pollute Chinese rivers, fill our landfills and poison our children. It doesn’t matter if it is tobacco, alcohol, coal mining, guns, propaganda, violent video games, or cute apps to get babies addicted to electronic devices. It doesn’t matter if the gadget self-destructs after one use. As long as it is cheap, cost-effective, and it sells, it is a traditional entrepreneur’s goldmine. As well as traditional investor’s dream come true. An entrepreneur is typically seen as a business leader and an innovator starting new businesses for profit. The financial gain and the maximum return on investment is be-all and end-all of entrepreneurship. Increasing value for the shareholder and chasing hockey-stick growth are the two benchmarks for judging success of a company. This is in part driven by our capitalist society – an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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