Follow your Dream!

Successful entrepreneur Alan Hall listed his twelve traits to become an entrepreneur. The first trait he suggested and maybe the most important was to “follow your dream.” Over a few months Alan goes into more depth about each of those he listed his Deseret Newspaper articles. It would be worth getting on line and reading his comments as he wrote them starting in January of 2012 from the newspaper in Salt Lake City, Utah.

I am giving my own take on his 12 entrepreneur traits. First was to follow your dreams. Personally I do not think the dream has to be specific to any one idea. Dream about becoming an entrepreneur, owning your own business and controlling your own destiny is your first step. It is never too early to start.

Most of us were introduced to becoming a small business owner when we were young. I started about at the age of 6 when I learned collecting pop bottles was a real money maker. My parents encouraged me and by age eleven I had advanced into selling Christmas Cards door to door. Most little kids sell lemonade, candy or vegetables from the parent’s garden. We all have to start somewhere. Hopefully we can start early in life.

Usually pressure is put upon the children and they are told education is important for us to get a real job. If parents are smart they would teach the children to cultivate their entrepreneur talents as they get their education. I was once told by a very wealthy person, “the richest people in the world are entrepreneurs but with an education.” If we don’t develop both talents, we will just become educated persons working for entrepreneurs.

Don’t hold yourselves back and for sure don’t hold your children back from achieving everything that can be had. It is never too late or too early to start.