How do you decide to open your own business? Many are wondering what is better: work in a large corporation as a "cog" or have a small one, but own your own business and be your own boss. And the reason for such thinking is also different for everyone. As the experience of many owners of their own business shows, the word "dare" does not play such an important role here. It can be stated with confidence: each person chooses one or another activity for purely individual criteria, and what is good for one may not fit the other at all.
But still certain qualities in order to start building your business must be present. And in the first place - it's faith. These qualities are either born with you, or you could acquire them in the course of your life and work. And faith is exactly the opposite of doubt. After all, when a person doubts something, he invisibly "kills" the possibility of making any meaningful and important decision. The experience of people who were able to create something of their own shows that they can be combined according to the following criteria:
- Very high responsibility, great drive and determination, positive attitude - I can do it, I will do it, everything will turn out for me, etc., and not "probably, probably, probably."
- Bright charisma - people who surround you, trust you, they do not need to prove something furiously, persuade at any cost. Everything comes to you as if by itself, without the application of some super-powers.
- The ability to learn from other people's mistakes, to learn from them. It is very important to notice and draw conclusions from other people's shortcomings. We often tend to ridicule those who "broke the wood," but rarely think about not themselves stepping on the same rake.
Someone can not cope with time: not ready, too early, not ripe for this, did not consider the idea to the end, I do not represent it at all, but is it mine at all? We think, think, think ... It's good to think about it, but it's very important not to stop and not start because of endless excuses, that you need to wait a bit, and that these excuses do not pursue us all the time, and the decision was postponed until tomorrow, until better times. Although each, of course, its time.
An example from life
When I was still at university, I was offered to run a small travel company. Thinking, I refused the owner. My main argument then was that, most likely, I will not pull this responsibility, because I was only 20 years old and my studies have not yet been completed. Now, from the height of past years, remembering that case, I can say for sure that my decision was absolutely justified: during this time I managed to work in many large international organizations in leading positions, and it is unlikely that the management experience of the travel agency would be equal to my current experience.
Someone can plan for a long time, keep the idea in his head, mentally bringing it to perfection. In general, sometimes such expectant tactics bear fruit when something brilliant and well-planned is born. However, still, as a rule, every thought has a certain period of time when it should "fire." It is very important to translate the idea into reality in time, otherwise you risk being late and someone more smart will do it for you.
An example from life
I have a good acquaintance, Tolik, who sometimes just fountains with some interesting and fresh ideas. When you see him, a huge stream of creative and non-standard thinking is piling on you. Tolik constantly complains that his unusual view of things is of little interest now. Hence the question that surrounds him is: why do not you create something yourself? To which he constantly replies: "Well, I was thinking that you could do this, but this is already there ..." In the end, Tolik and works in an organization where his creative ideas and ingenuity are not, in general, anyone Excite.
And some are plunged headlong into entrepreneurial activity, because they crave for freedom - they want to set the rules themselves, and not follow other people's covenants. But the concept of freedom is relatively relative, and only we ourselves can delineate its boundaries. We will not go into polemics from the fact that everything is very complicated in our country with small business, etc. Business is quite delicate. Responsibility here is incomparably higher than an uninformed person can imagine. You can not count on the fact that you will in any case be given a certain salary or say what exactly you need to do. This is you yourself have to make a budget for salaries, come up with some new ideas and implement them in practice, build relationships with customers, look for ways to be better competitors. Someday you will come to the fact that you already have few in the staff of several employees, and that you need a full-fledged team that you need to be able to competently manage.
An example from life
Once I held consultations in one PR agency about the optimization of organizational structure of the organization. Its founder was a professional high-quality PR man, who had very high communication skills, but as it turned out later, he was not able to fully manage his company, he was not a born leader. As a result, his company had a huge staff turnover, employees came and went almost every week, which made it difficult for him to move forward.
In business, you can not rely only on someone else's hands. First of all, this is your business, and therefore you simply must possess the qualities of a leader leader. Do not rely on the fact that you will hire a good manager and he will do everything for you. When you have the idea of creating your own business, first analyze how much you yourself believe in what you build and do not have the strength to endure all to the very end, and not give up when the first difficulties begin (and they are in in any case unavoidable).
So, the idea is already ripe, and you decided to start? Take the following steps:
- Once again, carefully calculate the budget of your endeavor and carefully check the business plan. At the very beginning of creating your own business, it is necessary that you have a certain amount of money, since in any case there will necessarily be unexpected expenses - these are the main surprises for beginning businessmen;
- Decide whether you will be able to perform the tasks you set yourself, or you will need an assistant. It is possible that, for starters, you may not need help, and you will only spend on finding and training a new person, time and money. But, for example, if your business is connected with work on the Internet, then such a narrow specialist will never be superfluous;
- If you do not have a specialized education as an accountant or a lawyer, then it's worth consulting with representatives of these specialties. Laws are changing almost every day, and we need to keep up with all sorts of updates and new amendments. In any case, make a selection of resources from which you can learn about changes in legislation;
- Scroll in your head all your daily initial steps at least a month in advance. This will help to better keep in mind the main idea and everything connected with it, and will give you additional confidence in your endeavors to establish your business.