While browsing the net, catching up with my regular dose of news from different blog sites, I came across few things that I thought would help motivate and encourage us to get up and acknowledge that we already have what it takes to become the future/successful entrepreneurs, we just need to believe it.

All we need to do is to take the necessary steps required.
You know you’re a young entrepreneur when you start to look around in your classroom and think of ways your classmates can profit you in some way (not monetary necessarily).

You know you’re an entrepreneur when eating food or sleeping seems like a chore to you.
You know you’re an entrepreneur when your enthusiasm keeps you awake at night and you start to think of ways to profit from insomnia.

You know you’re an entrepreneur when…you work 16 hours a day for yourself, so you don’t have to work 8 hours a day for someone else…

You’re an entrepreneur when time freezes while you are doing what you feel passionate about. You forget that there’s a thing called breakfast, lunch and dinner. And you forget what is sleeping, and you forget that everything else is there.

Everything, everyone, every situation becomes an opportunity
You know you’re an entrepreneur when you bore your mates with business ideas!

You know you’re an Entrepreneur when you sometimes lose sight of every other thing in your life that has value, and you know it, but you keep pushing because your drive to succeed is too strong and uncontrollable!
You know you’re an entrepreneur when…your friends keeping asking if you’ve totally lost your mind…and you just smile.

You know you’re an entrepreneur when you cringe at the thought at ever having to be an employee again.
You know you’re an entrepreneur when you take your girlfriend out to dinner and try to give her financial advice.

You know you’re an entrepreneur when you are making more while in college than your peers will when they graduate.

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http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/

I hope this motivates us in our steps in becoming successful entrepreneurs

Tony, A 14 years old high school freshman has developed a stitching technique that can be used to reduce surgical complications, as well as the chance of error among less experienced surgeons.

“I’ve always had a passion for medicine,” he said in a recent interview. “The project I did was, basically, the comparison of novel laparoscopic instruments in doing a hysterectomy repair.”

Hansberry attends Darnell-Cookman, a special medical magnet school that allows him to take advanced classes in medicine. Students at the school master suturing in eighth grade.

“I just want to help people and be respected, knowing that I can save lives,” said Hansberry, the son of a registered nurse and an African Methodist Episcopal church pastor. His goal is to become a neurosurgeon.

Angela TenBroeck, the medical lead teacher, said in many ways, Hansberry is a typical student, but, she told the Florida Times Union that he is way ahead of his classmates when it comes to surgical skills.

“I would put him up against a first-year med student,” she said. “He’s an outstanding young man. And I’m proud to have him representing us.”

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Businesses in this modern day vary widely from one another. This is shown through Jezz Lee as the founder of “King Street Customs (KSC)”.

Mr Wood uses urban fonts on teenagers’ everyday clothing, for a business. Hot hip-hop dance group like Unity who were 2008’s UK and World Street Dance Champion has used KSC clothing style.

Mr Wood creates “Sick” fonts, upon any type clothing. The Fonts are boldly and brightly presented as well as displaying the words, “King Custom Street” or its unique logo.

Hey, how are you doing and welcome to YHP.

I am doing pretty good thanks; I just finished collaborating with the world street dance champions to design their costume for their latest show.

• Where did the “King Street Customs” as a title come from?

The Title came from three single meanings put into one. ‘King’ is what they call me, ‘Street’ stands for the urban art that the company represents and ‘Customs’ defines what I do for who ever request my unique service.

• How did you come up the eye-catching yet simple logo?

Well… there is no way to actually explain how, but it was developed in an evening with my graffiti black book and a number 2 pencil! After my final draft I realised my logo portrays two symbols; one is the meaning that it is intended to connote which is a crown with the King Street Customs initials above it. The other one is up to your creative eye and your inspired imagination.

• Who or what inspired you to start up such a business on the basis of “ghetto” fonts on jumpers, t-shirts….etc?

My main inspiration is graffiti. Over the years there have been a few underground graffiti artists such as Cope 2, Banksy, Neck and many more that have inspired me to develop street and wall art into garment art. This can be seen as a safe, legal and practical way to represent graffiti and urban art.

• As a designer, who are your ideal top designers?

There are so many talented designers in the industry and to achieve a title of an idyllic designer is as amazing accomplishment. To me in this day and age only two designers come to mind. These people are Cope 2 designer of the Adidas graffiti collection found in foot locker and Tomoaki Nagao aka Nigo the founder of Bathing ape.

• What is your favourite clothing brand?

Bape! If I didn’t wear my own brand I would defiantly wear Bape & BBC (billionaire boys club) all day, every day.

• Who is your role model?

I don’t have a role model because I believe that it is more important to develop my life the way I want it rather then watching and aspiring for what other people have in their lives. Besides I’m too busy becoming a role model for others!

• At what age did you encounter your first entrepreneurial experience?

When I was about 16 years old I got really bored with my plain clothes, so an old friend and I use to paint our names & characters all over them (I still remember my first garment I painted, it was a hat with a poor excuse for pink panther on it). Luckily she was there to help because she had experience with this and I was so clueless on how to start. After a while with practise, my friends started to take interests with what I was doing with my clothes and before I new it I was taking orders.

• What does your business aim to give its customers?

King Street Customs aims to give its customers the opportunity to transfer their own personal desires to their clothes to create unique, exclusive and fresh garments.

• You have acquired a business and in its early stage it’s looking rather successful. Where do you see King Street Customs going in the next five years?

Since I started King Street Customs so much has happened. I have worked with some of the UK’s most influential dance Groups (shout out to Unity dance group). Most recently I launched the official KSC website WWW.KINGSTREETCUSTOMS.CO.UK. So in the next five years I intend to get this website recognised globally allowing customers from all over the world to make orders. I also aim to open up an official KSC shop in London where anyone and every one can come in and actually see the process of getting their garments customised.

• Time is an important tool in this world of ours, especially in this generation. Does this business you venture, enable you with time for yourself, friends and family?

I’m not going to lie; sometimes I wish I could freeze time. I have so much other things going on right now, including my beautiful daughter who is going to become 2 years old soon and also getting my degree in creative advertising at university. So you can only imagine the struggle I cope with; but because my business is my passion I am able to mentally allow myself to deal with this pressure, I know one day it will all pay off.

• Describe any setback and how did you bounce back?

I have never been in any major setbacks but the only setback I use to get was allowing some customers e.g. friends & associates not to pay deposits or up front. This was a setback because I use to paint clothes for all these customers and then wait on them to find money to pay up or not pay at all. I bounced back by making a strict rule for all customers to pay a minimum deposit of 20% or upfront for small orders. Other then that I seem to have the useful ability to spot problems from far and deal with them accordingly!

• What are your advices for designers, who aim to be successful?

Follow your dreams and take all opportunities. Success is not a destination it is a journey!
For more information about King Street customs please contact me at admin@kingstreetcustoms.co.uk

www.kingstreetcustoms.co.uk
blog.kingstreetcustoms.co.uk

Thank you for your time Jezz

Interview & Edited By Honey Carew

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From your feedbacks, I will try and write my topics as concise as possible.

• Most of the things I tried to get across to you in the last post were that, we all have this inner yearning for succeed, achievement, but we lack the initiative to maximize the true potential that lies within us, Because of situations that holds us back.

• Those things that varies from childhood’s experiences, relationships, friendships, failures, misconceptions, self-realisation and others but I do believe we can get pass the stage.

• One of the ways I believe to move from that stage is to talk with GREAT-minded people, you know the people that can really motivate and inspire you in taking on that situation head strong.

• Also, It is better to go with your gut, now think about it, what if Thomas Edison has let other situation weigh him downinstead, he used situations like this to bring out the best in him, drawing out his inner motivation, using words of inspiration to inspire himself also” I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”, although think it through, don’t fight it, go with it. Even if you don’t know exactly how it is going to work out embrace the idea and try to see it through to its full potential.

• During the last five years,so much ideas come my way, some which I have ignored totally, ideas that could be booming now, but oh well, we all have to move on, but also I have ideas in the past two years where I have had that ‘gut feeling’, followed it and it turned out to be a dead-end, but by going with that idea it led me to have another idea which was better. I guess it bring sense to the quote saying “There is light at the end of the tunnel”.

• Don’t be afraid to drop your old ideas for a new better one. Sometimes each new idea is just a stepping stone to that ultimate idea. Drop the average for the best.

• Remember to continue reading “Think and Grow rich” by “Napoleon Hill“ or get yourself the audio version , if you want a copy of the either, do not hesitate to contact me or any questions relating to the post.

By:

Joseph Ajilore

• The Mindset is your preparation into the world of entrepreneurship, I can say this enough; it all starts in the mind.If your mind is not prepared, then it needs developing, start reading books, or listening to audios or exposing your mind to different things, but be careful not to take others opinions as your facts.
  Challenge your mind, challenge yourself
• Your mindset is what gives you a different approach to life, it makes you understand that you can be great rather than settle to be okay. It enables you to constantly try to better yourself.
  we something underestimate the power of our minds, when you have your mind set on something, you are unstoppable, the only person that can stop you is “you”.
• Think outside the Box, not just within the Box, open your mind and look at things from different angles and directions.
  I understand why a lot of people don’t question things, they just do, because it’s easier, don’t do things because it is easier but because it is the best option.

• Do let someone think for you, or create your mindset,don’t be enslaved within others thoughts or opinions.
  Don’t be afraid to be outside the so-called safety zone. To succeed in any business undertaking, one must not be afraid of these risks. Let that be your mentality, your mindset.
  However, don’t take risks blindly; you must be able to calculate them. By properly calculating the risks, you can determine if the risks are worth taking or not.

• The pace of economic change is accelerating, driven by inventions, process improvements, and our perpetual quest for better, faster, cheaper GOODS AND SERVICES.
  Which means you need to start, right now, and begin to develop your mind.

• “The entrepreneurial mind-set transcends the confines of family and tradition, opening individuals up to modern styles of consciousness and securing them a place in modern industrial society” (Brigitte Berger in Spinosa, Flores, Dreyfus, 1997, p.57)
  In this world of uncertainty, your mindset should be:
  Take control.

• If nobody knows the future and what it holds, then the future might has well belong to you.
• You can change the future; you can change your future. Your vision of how to navigate it is as good as anyone’s.

• And don’t forget that you’re still young, at least kind of young I guess most of us,

• You need to start to develop yourself, work on yourself, none of that CRAP YOU BEEN DOING LATELY LIEING TO YOURSELF, THAT YOU’RE LEARNING.
• Take advantage of your youth. Being young, you can come up with lots of new, unexplored ideas to start a successful business.

• If you look back, most of the biggest companies right now, began when there was nothing else like it. That’s why they are untouchable e.g. the Bill gates and Rupert Murdock’s; they beat the competition to it!
• Find your perfect niche, the possibilities for growths, and advancement, are endless.

Further, even when competition comes knocking, you will already have the experience that they don’t, and a solid customer base, whose trust you have earned.

• Get yourself into the right frame of Mind, your Mindset is powerful.

I hope this word of encouragement on the mindset of the aspiring entrepreneurs inspires us.
I am going to change the book which I have told you to read for these couple of weeks, now I want us to turn our focus to nothing less than the great book by Napoleon Hill “Think and Grow Rich”, As I always say if you need it in the pdf format or the audio, do not hesitate to contact me, or if you have any questions in relations to the book or the topic in general.

Also, I hope the video below gives you some kind of strength and motivation to keep pushing harder.

By:

Joseph Ajilore

• Is your life anything you want it to be? Have you actually made a decision that you want?
• You really don’t get it do you, do you understand that we are all different in the tiniest ways possible and it is our responsibility to show people that TINY part of us, the part differentiates us from others, the same differentiation that SEPERATES painters, singers etc.
• You need to take responsibility for yourself and your actions, unless you will be stuck in their state of mind that, someone is responsible for what is going on in your life.

BREAKING NEWS………You’re Responsible for your actions.

• So I urge you to start to make these decisions, these crucial decisions in making your first steps towards finding your hidden potential, these first steps that can change the course of your lives.
  And until you accept this, will you live life to its fullest, no-one else can do this for you.
• I hope this can make you start taking the first steps to chase your dreams and realize that anything in life is possible, if you believe in yourself and your idea, vision through hard-work and perseverance.
  The most creative minds are the ones that think of what should be, rather than what it is.
• Don’t Crucify yourself in false beliefs that you can’t, as I said in the last post, Y shouldn’t you be saying, “I can do it”.
  Don’t let others opinions hold you back from having the life you want or pursue your dreams.
• I am going to leave you this at this moment, give you time to digest this and hope you can concentrate in ways in taking your first steps.

It doesn’t matter how old, short, tall, background etc, you can do, and yes “I can do it”, that should be your new motto.

By:

Joseph Ajilore

The First Steps:

• First steps are crucial, our first steps in learning how to walk, speak, read, write, run, and dance.
  We didn’t just get up one day and started jumping, we started by crawling, then walking, and they after mastering the balance of our body with our two feet, we started running and then jumping. If you just started running, without these procedures as a baby I would be interested in knowing your story.

• After reading couple books of some young entrepreneurs, I realised something that puts many of us off starting something different, something unique-REJECTION, but being an entrepreneur is realising that it takes passion,persistence and hardwork succeed, and not just an idea.

• You need to ask yourself these questions quickly
• Did any of the people that discouraged you not to follow your ambition, Will any of them ever take risks?
• Start up a business? Pursue their passion?

• Why are listening to someone that will take a 9-5 over starting something dynamic, something new, something different, something that can change the course of your life, or the world.
• You might feel they are trying to protect you, but I say they are trying to slow you down, It would please them for you to be someone under control, rather than a person in control.
• Don’t just let someone’s opinion change your course of life.

• We realise that the world has somehow jumped ahead of most of us without realising and now we are panicking on what to do next.

• Most of us have being given directions and structures in which how our lives must fit, structures in which we must live our lives around, that why I guess most of us are terrified when expected to make key decisions e.g. “when I leave the university, what am I going to do next”, because they realise that they don’t really have a clue what to do next, because for the first time in their life they have to make a decision that can shape the course of their future.

• Of course, sometimes we end up making the right decision, but the point is that now we have to make that decision, the key decision, nothing after that is planned out.

• We’ve always had plans set in front of us, first primary school, and then secondary school, the we do A-levels, and then we’re off to the university, without actually realising what we want to do.

• I do believe structure is needed in every community and structure comes in terms of education and other community-related organisation.

• I also believe education is vital, but learning is more crucial, most of us skip our way through education, without learning anything and later, blame the government for not providing enough jobs, blame our bosses for not treating us well, blame the job itself, I just find this very interesting.

• I believe that the era of self-education is re-investing itself.
• Most people prefer to stay in the comfort zone, because they are scared about what will happen if they pursue their dreams, I am not saying make rash decisions, without thinking about it.
• But don’t wake-up in regrets, when you realise one morning on your way to work, someone has perfected the idea you were to scared to pursue.

• You need to understand that nothing is guaranteed in life any more, I hope people can see from this recession that even job security is very shaky,put it this way “everything is a risk”, so take the risk you believe in.

• If you’re not ready to wake up, with the pace in which the world is moving, YOU will be left completely stagnant.

• In the wake of recession, hopefully people could start thinking out of the box and start implementing their ideas, instead of looking for the next job seeker allowance, why can’t you say “he went to the same school as me, he was in my class, he lived on my street, and I can do it”

This is your time to search within yourself, get to know yourself.

Watch the Video below and I hope it shows that you are capable of a lot more, and now is the time to start taking the first steps.

By:
Joseph Ajilore

OVERVIEW

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All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
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