Seven Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs

What is it that would get you to continue day after day to put everything you've got into everything you do to succeed in your business?

I believe that there are seven fundamental character traits that all highly successful people cultivate within themselves, seven characteristics that give them the fire to do whatever it takes to succeed. These are the seven basic triggering mechanisms that can ensure you succeed as well:

Trait Number 1: Passion!

All successful people have discovered a reason, a consuming, energizing, almost obsessive purpose that drives them to do, to grow, and to be more! It gives them the fuel that powers their success train and causes them to tap their true potential. It's passion that drives the computer scientists through years of dedication to create the kind of breakthroughs that have put men and women in outer space and brought them back. It's passion that causes people to stay up late and get up early. It's passion that people want in their relationships. Passion gives life power and juice and meaning. There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessman.

Trait Number 2: Belief!

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we will be. What we believe to be true, what we believe to be possible, becomes what's true, becomes what's possible. Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take the actions that could make their dream a reality. People who succeed know what they want and believe that they can get it.

Passion and belief help to provide the fuel, the propulsion towards excellence. But propulsion is not enough. If it were, it would be enough to fuel a rocket and send it flying blindly toward the heavens. Besides that power, we need a path, an intelligent sense of logical progression. To succeed in hitting out our target, we need

Trait Number 3: Strategy!

A strategy is a way of organizing resources. Every great entertainer, politician, parent, or employee knows it's not enough to have the resources to succeed. One must use those resources in the most effective way. A strategy is recognition that the best talents and ambitions also need to find the right avenue. You can open a door by breaking it down, or you can find the key that opens it intact.

Trait Number 4: Clarity of Values!

Values are the fundamental, ethical, moral, and practical judgements we make about what's important, what really matters. Values are specific belief systems we have about what is right and wrong about our lives. They're the judgements we make about what makes life worth living. Many people do not have a clear idea of what is important to them. Often individuals do things that afterword they are unhappy with themselves about simply because they are not clear about what they unconsciously believe is right for them and others. When we look at great successes, they are almost always people with a clear fundamental sense about what really matters. Think of Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. - they all have had different visions, but what they have in common is a fundamental moral grounding, a sense of who they are and why they do what they do. An understanding of values is one of the most rewarding and challenging keys to achieving excellence.

As you have probably noticed, all these traits feed on and interact with one another. Is passion affected by beliefs? Of course it is. The more we believe we can accomplish something, the more we are willing to invest in its achievement. Is belief by itself enough to achieve excellence? It's a good start, but if you believe you're going to see a sunrise and your strategy for achieving that goal is to begin running west, instead of east, you may have some difficulty. Are our strategies for success affected by our values? You bet. If your strategy for success requires you to do things that do not fit your unconscious beliefs about what is right or wrong for your life, then even the best strategy will not work. This is often seen in individuals who begin to succeed only to end up sabotaging their own success. The problem is there's an internal conflict between the individual's values and his strategy for achievement.

In the same way, all four of the things we've already considered are inseparable from

Trait Number 5: Energy!

Energy can be the thundering, joyous commitment of a Bruce Springsteen or a Tina Turner. It can be the entrepreneurial dynamism of a Donald Trump or a Steve Jobs. It can be the vitality of a Ronald Reagan or a Katharine Hepburn. People of excellence take opportunities and shape them. They live as if obsessed with the wondrous opportunities of each day and the recognition that the only thing no one has enough of is time.

There are many people in this world who have a passion they believe in. they know the strategy that would ensure it, and their values are aligned, but they just don't have the vitality to take action on what they know. Great success is inseparable from the physical, intellectual, and spiritual energy that allows us to make the most of what we have.

Trait Number 6: Bonding Power!

Nearly all successful people have in common an extraordinary ability to bond with others, the ability to connect with and develop rapport with people from a variety of backgrounds and beliefs. The great successes - the Kennedys, the Kings, the Reagans, the Gandhis - all have the ability to form bonds that unite them to millions of others. The greatest success is not on the stage of the world. It is in the recesses of your own heart. Deep down, everyone needs to form lasting, living bonds with others. Without that, any success, any excellence, is hollow indeed.

Trait Number 7: Mastery of Communication!

The way we communicate with others and the way we communicate with ourselves ultimately determine the quality of our lives. People who succeed in life are those who have learned how to take any challenge that life gives them and communicate to themselves in a way that causes them to successfully change things. People who fail take the adversities of life and accept them as limitations. The people who shape our lives and our cultures are also masters of communication to others. What they have in common is an ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission. Mastery of communication is what makes a great parent or artist or a great politician or a great businessman.

Let's take up the challenge and try to fully embrace these traits in order to thrust ourselves towards financial freedom using the exciting, proven SFI Affiliate business opportunity. This way we shall become team leaders and refined mentors capable of steering our teams to highest levels of success within the shortest time possible.

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