By Famous Dave Anderson

The greatest deterrent to those with dreams, ideas, and aspirations for starting their own business is the fear of the unknown.  If you are successfully working for someone else, and you

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are dying inside wanting to start your own business, yet you are afraid of losing the security of your job—think of General Douglas MacArthur, who said, “There is no security in life, only opportunity.”

The key to all success begins with unwavering faith in yourself and the courage to take the first step. You must not focus on what you can’t see down the road, you must focus on what you do know right in front of you and act on that one thing. All successful entrepreneurs will tell you they had no clue how everything was going to come together but it was important for them to take the first step. A wise businessman once shared this wisdom to his apprentice, “Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.”

You need a positive cheerful attitude, fueled by a crystal clear vision of your goals in life. This vision must be anchored by the strongest unwavering resolve to never… never… ever quit… until you have manifested your dreams into reality. How you program your mind moment by moment on a daily basis is the secret to creating that deep foundation to your positive attitude and this is what gives substance to your dreams.

You can never experience the unbelievable rewards of being enormously successful unless you have experienced the sheer terror of facing the most challenging adversity caused by going where you have never gone before… to do the things you have never done before... to experience the success that you have never experienced before!

There will be days that you will wish you never started out on this journey into the unknown. There will be days that it seems that everything around you is crashing in on you… and there is no way out. There will be days when you feel all alone and that all your friends have abandoned you. There will be days that you want to scream to the universe to give you a break because you can’t take it anymore.  It is then that you must dig deep and tell yourself that you are not going to give up on yourself.

The greater your success… the greater your effort to give up your self-righteous pride to do the things you said you would never do! The greater your success… the greater your effort will be to get yourself out of the way and place greater attention to being a servant to other people.

The greater your success… the greater your risk of failure. The greater your success… the more determined you will have to be to jerk yourself out of your comfort zone. The greater your success… the greater your self discipline will have to be… in order for you to change who you are right now. You cannot be enormously successful being the person you are right now.  You need to develop a constant awareness for learning, seeking challenge, and developing new disciplines of growth. The thinking and behavior that got you to where you are today… is not the thinking and behavior that will need to stretch to where you want to grow… tomorrow—

- Famous Dave

Famous Dave’s Golden Rules for Successful Entrepreneurship
           
Vision

Everything starts with Vision.  All entrepreneurs possess an extraordinary awareness to opportunities in the marketplace.  They can sense intuitively what others cannot see.  This awareness becomes the seed of a great idea.  This idea turns into an unstoppable vision fueled by the entrepreneur’s enthusiasm to create a product or service that will serve the world.   This enthusiasm attracts other like-minded passionate people whose combined energy creates a dynamic environment for the purposes of creating and marketing their product or services.  Entrepreneurs have the ability to cast their vision to everyone around them.  Entrepreneurs truly believe their vision for creating business, the jobs that they create, and their products or services— makes the world a better place.  The Entrepreneur’s Vision keeps them focused with a clear sense of purpose.  They are determined to be Number One in their industry.  Not necessarily the biggest but always the best… Best Concept, Best Service, Best Product, Best Training, Best Attitude, etc., etc.  This vision is burned into every cell of their bodies.

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