Anchors for Success in Business

The most successful entrepreneurs that made it on their own, without the benefit of inherited or sudden wealth, arrived at the pinnacle of success carrying anchors that they have always had since starting with their first few steps either in the job market or in the world of business.

What best describes these anchors are they have provided the successful entrepreneur the following:

1. Focus

2. Centering

3. Energy

4.  Access

What are these anchors of their success? These simply are: sense of purpose, firm belief system, process of self-affirmation and renewal and trust in networking.

These anchors become the very pillars of many successful entrepreneurs' success.

Sense of Purpose

Purpose often originates from a need. The student who built a small fortune by creating the milliondollarhomepage.com, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates who both began with intense intent on creating Apple and Microsoft respectively, all had purpose written over their foreheads. Mark Zuckerberg initially wanted to get close to as many females during his prime and suddenly there was Facebook, but there was still purpose and in his latter days, he evolved a much better goal - succeeding in the world of enterprise.

The question of whether one should continue or not on a road of failure, despair and dejection, specially when one has run out of resources and friends to help out creates a purpose.

On the other hand, if one gets hold of resources and shuns the thought of giving meaningful purpose to spending a considerable sum of money, the wealth in one's hands will disappear instantly and for no good reason at all. Thus, the first anchor that is vital to making your first few millions in business is purpose. It has to be a goal that you identify with; it has to be a target that singly or with the help of others around you, can be reached. Finally, for a touch of the good and virtuous, it has to be a purpose that does not result in inflicting harm to other humans or destroying property.

Belief System

Many who scoff at religion, declaring they are atheists, non-believers, do not know that they also firmly espouse a belief system. Not all who succeed in business believe in religion. They can be spiritual to a fault, but can never be labeled religious. Other successful entrepreneurs can be wholly secular, preferring to worship pragmatism and wealth creation. Some are intensely political but in all these cases, the system of belief is present in the individual.

A mental framework that allows itself to process belief in whatever form, not only permits the mind to be focused, but to organize a set of thoughts and concepts into a program or platform for decisions. If the mind does not tolerate a belief system, it is often one that balks nurturing of a program of action.

Large numbers of people go through one day to the next without event. Some on the other hand, want to experience one exhilarating experience after another but the mind simply jumps from one point to the next or entertains as many objects of attention at any one time without connecting the dots, as it were.

The mind of a person that can become a niche for a belief system is more fortunate in that regard. Therefore, if one does not harbor in one's system a particular belief, whether of God, ideology or philosophy, then one is apt to be scatter-brained or a simpleton. Only the luckiest of dumb individuals were fortunate enough to have become extremely wealthy and lived to enjoy their opulence. So this anchor for an entrepreneur is necessary, the anchor of a coherent set of beliefs.

Self-Affirmation and Renewal

One fundamental factor of success is re-creation and re-charging of one's batteries. This is the process of self-affirmation; it is the process of renewing one's vows, goals, beliefs, every day of one's life so as to perpetually remember where and kind of person one intends to be.

As the success candidate wakes up, or as regularly as possible, one should affirm one's determination and resolve to rise above one's circumstances and to pursue one's purpose as enthusiastically and as passionately as in the first time.

The entrepreneur who loses track of what he or she is doing, is bound to fail miserably in the world of business. Every individual who cannot take it upon one's self to re-affirm whatever faith or purpose one originally envisaged, will get lost in the jungle of uncertainty.

For this and similar other reasons, the businessman must have a way to repeat to one's self one's real and true purpose for being in the trade. The entrepreneur must never become tired of this re-affirming and renewing of one's beliefs and sense of direction. This is an important anchor that will help one succeed in business.

Trusted Network

One can only make it in the marketplace if one can afford to put trust in even just a select number of people. Through these individuals one trusts, one will have a network or a circle out of which one can seek support, have a shoulder to cry on and most of all, extend one's reach to as many other people within the spheres of influence of one's own friends.

A viable, functional network will do miracles for the businessman starting to build an empire.

As one's network grows, so will one's capacity to grow one's enterprise develop along with it. A trusted network is one anchor that any upstarting businessman cannot do without.

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