On this subject specifically, I’ve been in deep, frequent prayer over where God is leaning me to go, and I keep feeling a pull toward my own gig, as I have frankly for years now. But for much of this time, until the last several months, I’ve tried my best to grind through the corporate gig, sometimes out of habit, I guess.

But, it’s a dead end, it seems, regardless of how I approach it. I’ve been so miserable at my last several jobs that I finally reached the point of–for the first time–just walking away from the last without something else to go directly to.

I have about 20K saved (actually, inherited), and I’m trying to look at it like this is an opportunity for me to trust God, to take that risk, and to work to make my own way. My personal passion is sports history, though I am not sure if I can make enough at it within a decent timeframe to where I won’t need to go back to corporate USA.

I am growing in my faith in God in these matters, and believe He can indeed open doors in ways I haven’t even considered, with my limited wisdom.

Mainly, wanting to be sure I’m doing what’s right under the circumstances.

Thanks for the post and books, especially!

Bert

For us at CEED – we have to work in an entrepreneurial culture which focuses on creativity, innovative thinking, commitment and dedication to service excellence, and a good broad base of skills and talent that allow for optimizing opportunities and and maximizing problem solving abilities. Freedom to be creative is also key – and lattitude to make mistakes, take risks, and be autonomous are some of the must haves for our employees. Creating a culture for staff to be entrepreneurial is key.

The biggest thing I hated about having a regular job is not having control over what I’m doing, and how I’m doing it.

I think a lot of entrepreneurs share this feeling!

Employee’s are happy to take orders, but the employers rarely are!

The self congratulatory mindset that entrepreneurs often seem to be fixated on is kinda like being proud of having blue eyes. Makes no sense really. We are what we are, like everybody else, that’s all.

Honestly, I’ve found few serious conversations about freedom in the Net business community.

Real freedom would include the ability to have a stupid job with a rude boss who gives us nonsensical orders, and being capable of smiling all the way through it. Not living that life necessarily, but being able to successfully.

Imho, true freedom, the real bottom line, is internal, being able to control the territory between our own ears, not in mastery of external circumstances.

The net biz community is generally quite serious, focused and self motivated on the subject of HOW to make money, which is cool, but most often lazy and careless about really understanding WHY we want to make it.

Ironically, some of the best conversations I’ve found about freedom have been with folks who are usually half broke and probably couldn’t run a simple business if their life depended on it. Life if full of surprises, that’s what makes it fun I guess.

I always heard that salespeople weren’t born salespeople, they were made. That might be true for salespeople but I truly think entrepreneurs are born entrepreneurs.

An entrepreneur can’t help being an entrepreneur no more than an addict can’t help getting the next fix. There’s hope for the addict overcoming the addiction, but trying to persuade an entrepreneur to going back to Dilbert’s cube is hopeless. He or she will always find a good reason to tell the boss to shove it, and will fire a client without hesitation if they deserve it. I don’t know if this is good or bad, but I find it to be the case more often than not. A good definition for entrepreneur is; one who is unemployable.

Today when i was travelling from home to my office i was reading Robert T. Kiyosaki ” Rich Dad Poor Dad” …the same topic what Terry Dean was sharing with.

Every one has to read his book who is realy want to come to right side of Quadrant which is “B” or “I” where financial freedom is there instead of just job security.

I pray to god more and more Entreprenurs are needed to this world instead of Employees.

Thanks
Mani Nagappan