What drives you? How do you keep motivated?

Ateneo Professor on Entrepreneurship

Reposted from Inc by Jeoffrey James | July 15, 2013

How do you keep yourself on fire?  How do you keep motivated as the manager of a group, or as leader.  You get tired and frustrated.  There will  be  lot of restraining forces that will prevent you form achieving your goals?  What do you do?  Increase the driving force reduce the restraining force.?

The concern here is the fuel and the fire that drive you.  What drives you?

As you wake up in the morning, and that was my concern, how do I determine what I and my people should do?  Who would wake me up in morning to push me to work?  Who will nudge me?

How do you keep going?

1.  Act with a purpose  - It could be a low purpose (to provide food and shelter for family) or beyond you -  to provide jobs to many.  It could be love of country, love of God or the poor as the higher purpose.

    I remember when I was in final interview with VP for promotions in pharma (I was applying for drug rep) the interviewer was not happy that I only replied to the question, why do you want to work here

"I want to have a job  -  After you are hired you will get lazy"

"I want to be supervisor  - in three years you will become one; and lose interest and energy to work harder."

"I want to be a manager -  same;  when you are a manager, you will lose steam"

I answered in a way that will probably get him mad or answer his question - " Sir, I want to take your place".   End of questioning

2.  Be accountable for the results.  Blame no one.  No alibi or excuses.  Whatever happens is a result of your own effort or not because of someone else, or the environment.

3.  Just do it.  Do not wait for perfect information.  Avoid procrastinating.

4. Eat healthy foods that will fuel you during the day.

5.  Surround yourself with positive people

Nothing Happens Until This Does

It is what you actually do that counts.  Not the big ideas.  They will remain ideas just ideas.

So the successful man, the entrepreneur does something about this.

Talk about Bezos, Fred Smith,  and other now very rich guys.  Tom Cooper a Silicon Valley tehno
entrepreneur that it is a rare guy who knows what the market needs, creates the product (ask someone to make the product for him0 produce the product, markets and distribute.  The VC, the banks
the investor may know how to finance the venture, but do not possess the stuff of the entrepreneurs.

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Re: No use Trying

TO         :  All

Are still many trying.  No try.  Just do.

Avoid trying.  Just do it

Do or do not, there is no try.    Yoda





Entrepreneurship is doing something instead of just talking

No use Trying

Avoid trying.  Just do it

Do or do not, there is no try.    Yoda





Entrepreneurship is doing something instead of just talking