“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

• 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

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

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.
– Brian Tracy

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.
No apologies or excuses.
No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.
The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey -
and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.
This is the day your life really begins.”

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“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start now and make a brand new ending.”
—Carl Bard

Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill

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