Entrepreneur Idea

Entrepreneur Idea: Here’s a list of business ideas for the entrepreneur. However, If you are seeking your ideas from a list generated by someone else, then perhaps you are not really an entrepreneur at all. Why? Because the very notion of entrepreneurial spirit is that you are constantly generating ideas for yourself.

Now you may not have considered the ideas you have had to be business ideas, but they are self-generated ideas nevertheless. We entrepreneurs are the types of people who automatically join the dots and see how things can work better. We can find ourselves walking round going “why do they not do this instead’. We are the types of individuals who may not flourish in a very fixed working environment. This is in no way because we wish anyone ‘ill’, it might be because if we can see that something is not working, if we have no power to change it, we can become very frustrated. We can naturally see a better way and we can find it unbearable to feel like a spinning wheel in a malfunctioning machine. We need to be able to see our impact. We need to be able to influence changes, we don’t easily accept work as something that funds the other parts of our lives, We entrepreneurs are individual’s who’s work is integral to our lives. We can barely tolerate inefficient systems and protocols. If we are prevented from expressing or implementing our solutions then usually we must leave the environment. If that which we offer in generosity is refused or blocked repeatedly then we lose confidence in both ourselves and indeed in ‘them’.

Have you ever been at work and thought ‘this system would work So much better if….” or “why are they still doing it that way when it’s ineffective….?” or “Why are they not listening…? I have told them the consequences of that and look, its happened again…”. If you have been plagued with such thoughts repetitively, then you may well have the innovative nature that makes for an excellent entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs do not go it alone because they wish for solitude, we do it because we cannot find our niche within someone else’s redundant system. We can see a better way so we go and make it happen outside of that system instead.

I spent 20 years ping-ponging around the world of employment. The bigger the organisations and the more seniority I seemed to have in my title (but the less I had in practise), the worse my daily experience of work was. Don’t get me wrong. I added to, and amended systems within organisations with or without the mandate to do so at times, but eventually the best solution was to give myself a full mandate to design it my way, by going self-employed. This way I gave myself the permission to disengage from daily frustrations had I found within other’s systems.

Entrepreneurs do not always get it right first time either. I started two businesses before this business entity. Both businesses were dissolved harmlessly. Both businesses taught me hugely. All the work experiences and business build has fed into this entity so none of my past has been wasted. There is however usually a frustration time when we go it alone whilst we refine what is right for us. Be kind to yourself as you do this. The best way of squash an innovative nature is to punish it when it does not get it 100% right. I have coachees who turn up here saying ‘im 35 and everyone seems to envy my freedom but I can’t quite make / find / identify ‘The Thing’ and I should have it sorted by now”.

Well, That is part of my job. to help you to hold the faith whilst we refine your innovations. This way you can be absolutely accurate with your entrepreneur idea when you go live.

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