Employee Mindset Vs Entrepreneur Mindset

Are you an employee who is dissatisfied with your position in life and on the job?  Have you ever considered becoming an entrepreneur?  If so, I can show you that it is possible to work your way in that direction (this does NOT happen overnight.) What is employee mindset vs entrepreneur mindset?  Let’s see…

Going into Business with the Right Mindset

There are essentially three kinds of people who approach business start-up.  Of course, this isn’t that there are just threse three, as there are variants in between, folks who have a little of one and another, or even all three.  The variations in real life include for example, a person who tends to shift from one to the other, or hovers between. The three classes presented here are a matter of principle to show the point of this article.  There are certainly folks who consistenty remain within one of these.  Let’s look at the constant, the variables and the differences between the two mindsets thus:

• The constant here is:  A set of proven, sound and effective instructions, from any given media.
• The variables here are:  Those who are given the set of instructions.
• There is a vast difference between the mindset of an employee and an entrepreneur.

Let’s now investigate the above items throught the rest of the article and then I will propose an outstanding opportunity to you at the end.

Three General Types of People in the Business World

Bear in mind that, once again, these examples are extreme and are not meant to place absolute labels, as everybody is different in their own ways.

The Person Who Can’t or Doesn’t Follow Instructions

This person may not have the ability to follow instructions, for example, many who are inflicted with a mental disability and require special care, aka: a special needs person.  This person is extremely unlikely to be engaging in business start-up by any means, so this really goes without saying.

There are however, folks who have an aversion, rather than a disability, thus, an attitudinal approach to not following instructions.  These folks definitely have the capability to carry out instructions but for whatever reason, fail to do so, or will not do so.  There are far too many reasons to list here.

We must not forget the doers who have failed to consult the instructions.  There is definitely the possibility of achievement here but that likelihood is less than those who not so gifted or talented in a way that make the instructions unnecessary.  Then we have chaos, failed attempts, counterproduction and of course waste and ruin.

The Person Who Does Nothing but Hear the Instructions

These are the information gatherers, who readily take in instructions but fail to implement them, that is, put what they learn into practice.  There are a number of ways this works.

A good example is the classic Fishing Club story.  In a few words, it’s about a fishing club that meets in their building, talks the talk about fishing, gathers up the equipment, a fully-equipped fishing boat, and the trailer to haul it, and everything else that goes into a fishing club.  However the club fails in the very purpose for its existence – actually going out onto the water and fishing!

Some conditions which bring about this scenario include distraction, jumping around too much, intent-only, perfectionism (here, work is being done, but not produced,) confusion, misunderstanding, information overload … and the list goes on…

The Person Who Acts Upon the Instructions Received

These are the people who learn through instructions and then learn by carrying out what’s in them, not just reading or viewing, but implementation.  They may fail at what they’ve learnt, but they keep at it until they fully understand or have mastered the techniques.  The objective has been reached – the doer gets results.  Even if these are failed attempts, they are still results.  These are the people who are most likely to achieve real success.

Let’s set the above aside and take a look at two mindsets (or mentalities) that occur within specified envoronments.  The above will take their place when we consider the following:

Employment Mentality (aka Employee Mindset)

In general, this environment carries few incentives to act initiatively, especially (and almost exclusively) with low-end job positions such as service and intense labour-oriented positions which require little creativity.  Employees at this level make up a vast percentage of the entire workforce.  As much as 71% of employees in this sector are mismatched with positions that do not satisfy their passion nor interest.  They’re there for the paycheck and out of necessity.

These positions are usually highly regulated and explicitly instruction-oriented, even the most mundane tasks involved.

Most employees at this level cherish their time off.  Work is something to get away from and leisure is high on the list.  Discussion on the job involve production on their level, favourite celebrities or sporting events, domestic issues and sometimes politics, as they are understood.  Employees are conditioned to depend on instructions from their superiors.  Disengagement amongst workers run high, ranging from mild to severe.  Employment comes with the sense of entrapment, lack of freedom, constraint and of being controlled.  Most take this in stride but tend to watch the clock. 

Employees approach time off and is what they get out of bed for.  Friday comes with great anticipation but when Sunday evening rolls around, comes feelings of dread. The weekend is over. Vacations are scheduled around company time and normally end too quickly. They make up most of the so-called consumer population, consume end-user products, entertainments and generally have herd mentality.  Finally, investments available on the consumer level are just that – consumer level, and offer less than that available to the wealthy.  Employees, as consumers, tend to be financially illiterate and get into severe credit debt over liabilities which strip them of most or all of their earnings.

Entrepreneurship (aka Entrepreneur Mindset or Mentality)

This environment isn’t for everyone, but it is not unreachable by anyone with average intelligence.  Unlike most employment, entrepreneurship requires folks who are able to stand on their own two feet without superiors telling them what and how to carry out tasks.  The entrepreneur has nobody above them and are their own bosses.  Administrative skills and leadership are required.  Success as an entrepreneur requires creativity, the apt to learn and implement, innovation, people skills and determination.

Entrepreneurship involves carrying out worthy ideals resulting in the startu-up and growing of businesses and entities, often to grand scales.

Entrepreneurs approach work with outright enthusiasm and is what they get out of bed for.  They put their entire body, soul and mind into their creations.  Unlike many employees, the entrepreneur take vacations when they want to, like everything else in the realms of a successful entrepreneur.  However, not everything is a bed of roses in this environment.  Entrepreneurship comes with mountains of responsibility and this requires great discipline.

Entrepreneurs do not flow with the masses nor do they do what the herd does.  They know what consumerism is and avoid those tenets.  They are frugal, the best being apt to educate aspiring entrepreneurs to do the same, are educated about investing and go into temporary debt over assets which debt they systematically satisfy through calculated risk.  They approach debt as using other people’s money (OPM) and other people’s energy (OPE) to garner their resources.  This is known as debt service rather than consumer credit.  Entrepreneurs are highly educated in finances and business.

A Great, Affordable Place to Begin…

As said above, folks with average intelligence can, and do become entrepreneurs.  This depends on you.  The vast majority will not so much as consider nor be concerned with entrepreneurship nor even have any knowledge of what it is about.  You can transfer your stance in life from that of being an employee for the rest of your able-bodied life – or you can discover, through the right kind of education, how to master entrepreneurship.

As with employment, especially in the upper end, there’s what’s called entry-level positioning.  All employment requires training, and intermediate through high-end employment, formal education in institutes of higher learning.  However colleges, universities and technical institutes, even business schools commonly prepare their students for a career within the workforce, which essentially is employment.

Almost always provided by entrepreneurs who desire to teach others the fine art of entrepreneurship, schools have been developed to do just this.  However, one must know where to look.  Many are disguised to look like reputable schools where one can acquire the proper education, but are not.  Unfortunately scams are rampart all over the Internet as well as in the physical world.

Being a long-term member of a reputable place of learning which, not only provides sound instruction in an easy-to-acquire and highly profitable business model, but serves as a permanent business platform complete with the tools and services needed to build and maintain an honest business that has the capabilities and known cases of drawing revenue that actually supercedes that of the President of the United States!