The Entrepreneur's Growth Strategy

The Past-based Entrepreneur
Past-based self entrepreneurs are
dominated by their past achievements.
They grew their business to a certain
growth phase but did not have the
capability to break their ceiling of
complexity, they quit. The way to know
them is that they constantly talk about
events that occurred thirty years ago in
their lives. Their mindset and everything
they know reflects the past they are in.
Because they live in the past, they
believe that the future is completely
distant and will take a very long
struggle to reach. As a result they resist
any new concept, knowledge, or
change because they fear that it would
take them out of their comfort zone.
T h e s e e n t r e p r e n e u r s fi n d l i f e
increasingly challenging and hopeless
because to them, every meaningful
occurrences of life have already taken
place, and there is no hope for the
future.
T h e F u t u r e - B a s e d
Entrepreneur
Future-based self entrepreneurs
anticipate the future. They believe that
everything they have accomplished up
until now is only preparatory to the
bigger, brighter and more powerful
future ahead of them.
They have powerful self-image of
themselves about the future, and they
constantly modify them as new
knowledge, new developments, and
new innovations are released. That
modification is crucial for preparing
these types of entrepreneurs for the
bigger and powerful future they are
seeking. An important feature of futurebase
entrepreneurs is that they
leverage the present to lay a solid
foundation for the future.
What’s the Difference?
A significant factor distinguishing pastbased
and future-based entrepreneurs
is that while the events of life happen to
past-based self entrepreneurs by
chance, future-based self entrepreneurs
intentionally created the actions that led
to where they are in the present, and
where they want to be in the future.
Most entrepreneurs do not take
deliberate actions to growing their
business. They wait for the environment
to dictate their reactions. As a futureb
a s e d e n t r e p r e n e u r, h a v i n g a
compelling vision of the future requires
taking deliberate steps in creating
results through goal setting, developing
imaginations, taking risk, and focusing
all your Unique Capability on your
money-making activities.
3.
Focus on your Unique
Capability.
A successful entrepreneur is a genius.
A genius in this context is not someone
having a high IQ. Instead, it is an
individual who demonstrates an
exceptional creativity and influence in
taking productivity to the degree of
achievement.
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