A few months ago I came across a youtube video titled ‘How We Became Billionaires”. Perhaps you’ve seen it yourself. In this short documentary, three individuals who have become Billionaires are interviewed and asked to share how they attained their wealth and how they live their lives on a day to day basis.
I highly recommend you check it out when you have a moment, I will embed it in this post.
You will always continue to hear me preach the message on the importance of becoming an entrepreneur. Why? Well, here are three reasons why I believe YOU and I and more of the population needs to become Entrepreneurs.
3 Reasons Why You Need To Be An Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs solve problems.
One thing I noticed about the Entrepreneurs interviewed in the video, was that they are looking to solve problems and serious issues. In fact, one of the guests teaches his children how to think in terms of solving problems. The gentleman’s little boy tells the interviewer (I will paraphrase), “If I help just one person solve their problem and they give me a dollar for it, then all I have to do is help a million people solve their problem to make a million dollars.”
I would like to invite you to adopt this way of thinking. Rather than focusing on how much money you can make off of someone, think in terms of how you can add the most value to your client/prospect. And how you can help to solve their problem. Being involved in real estate sales in my town for the past several years, I’ve seen how numerous realtors are constantly focusing on how much commissions they can make off of a person. They’ll add “fees” into their contract just to squeeze a few more bucks out of the transaction. They pose as trying to help, only to see how much they can get out of the person. Think of how you can solve issues. We need more people to help solve problems. It is obvious and evident that our political leaders are not looking out for our best interest. So, it falls upon us Entrepreneurs to come up with solutions and solve the worlds problems. Not our governments.
- Entrepreneurs Are Creative Thinkers.
One thing that separates Entrepreneurs from the general population is that we like to use our brains to create. Whether it’s to create opportunities, products, and new industries. If it wasn’t for Entrepreneurs our civilization would not advance as far as it has. Entrepreneurs create technologies that only exist in the imagination. We think outside the box and we don’t like to accept things as they are. Entrepreneurs are constantly looking to improve all areas of life. They like to improve product, services, and everything in between. This is why Entrepreneurs get to live the life that most only dream of. They look for ways to make things happen, rather than giving up. We need more creative minds in our world! We need more Musks. We need more Teslas! (Not the car!)
- Entrepreneurs Change The World.
When you look back at the products, industries, and services that have ever been created, you will note that it has been Entrepreneurs at the forefront. It is Entrepreneurs who create such. Hence, why it has always been Entrepreneurs who change the world. You will not see many political parties or leaders make history for making positive changes in society (or very rarely). This is why we cannot depend on [them] to change anything and waiting for them to do so is suicidal to our society. We need more Entrepreneurs to step in and change the world. Take a person such as Akon (the singer) and look at the positive change he is contributing to Africa. What political leaders could not [or chose not to do] he did on his own! He is providing thousands upon thousands of people with electricity when government and political leaders simply stood by. Can you see how important you are now!? It is up to YOU and me to change the world!
It pains me to see my people in Mexico suffer through these recent major earthquakes. What pains me the most is that political leaders have placed foundations in place to accept donations, except, they are keeping the funds and stuffing their pockets with those funds while people suffer! This is not mean to sound like some conspiracy theory, this is a fact. They are taking the food and items donated to the victims and sorting through the materials to keep the best of what they receive. They have political leaders going to disaster sites simply for publicity and advance their political agendas. Not to help.
Luckily, there are a few small groups of Entrepreneurs who have stepped in and have formed relief groups. They are receiving help via foundations they created and they are making sure this is distributed to the victims. Again, Entrepreneurs, NOT THE GOVERNMENT, are providing the help and relief.
I hope I don’t come across as some Anarchist, that’s not my point. But the point I want to stress is that the time has come that we take control. That we step in and do the work that needs to be done to change our world.
So there you have it my friends, this is why we need you to become an Entrepreneur and a successful one! We cannot help others when we ourselves are so utterly focused on how we’re going to pay bills. We can’t do anything to help society after coming home from work burned out and watching our world crumble through the television.
The Bible says (I’m not religious by any means) that in order to help your brother remove the twig from his eye, you must first remove the log lodge inside YOUR eye (paraphrased). In other words, you have to be successful and be free in order to help your brothers and sister worldwide become free!
Are you ready?
Gerardo Flores
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