Groundwork 

• Research – 

• Learn what you want to do

• Talk to people who worked or studied in the field you are interested in

• Research alike business 

• Take classes

• If someone else is already doing it, how can you do it better? 

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• Evaluate your skills

•  (Example; Fix cars, braid hair, create websites, cook food, clean well, drive safe, predict how movies end) anything you consider a skill of yours write it down. Evaluate opportunities. 

• If your skill is money then find opportunities. Ask yourself what problems are in the world. Who can you invest in to fix it?

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• Conduct thinking exercises 

• Right down every idea
   

Self-Reflection

• Why are you doing this?

  • Create your motivation

  • Strengthen the reason of your WHY.  

• Become your true self 

  • Learn your limitations

  • Learn your strengths and weaknesses 

  • How do you react to real life disappointments?

  • How well do you handle stress?

• Challenge your fears.

  • Test out your idea on a smaller scale 

  • Ask potential customers questions that relate to your product 

  • Learn your customers

Tenacity

• Create risk assessments

  • Analyze your idea and evaluate any potential barriers 

  • Develop plans to avoid all barriers 

• Create your success story 

  • Say it out loud, repeat your story over and over until you believe it to be true.

  • Remind yourself of past successes

  • Celebrate little victories 

• Compartmentalize your smaller goals to achieve the larger goal.

Creed

• Be honest

  • Be honest with yourself. Is this really what you want to do. Is your heart really in it.

  • Be honest to others. You receive what you send.

• Be fair

  • Take a Utilitarian approach within reason 

  • Consider your impact to the world 

• Never get greedy

  • No good comes from decisions made based on greed.