Most entrepreneurs and small business owners started out their careers working for someone else. You might have had a career for 5 years or 50 years before you decided to start your own business. Or you may even be working for someone else even as you struggle to develop your own business in your spare time.There is an employee mindset and an entrepreneur mindset and they are markedly different.

1. Most entrepreneurs and
small business owners
started out their careers

2. working for someone else.

3. You might have had a
career

4. for 5 years or 50 years
before you decided to start
your own business.

5. Or you may even be
working for someone else
even as you struggle to

6. develop your own business
in your spare time.

7. Working for someone else
is

8. fundamentally different
from working for yourself.

9. There is an employee
mindset

10. and an entrepreneur
mindset

11. and they are markedly
different.

12. If you have been working
for many years

13. for someone else,

14. you may not realize t

15. hat there is a difference in
mindset.

16. The longer you've worked
as an employee,

17. the harder it is to change
this mindset

18. and start thinking like an
entrepreneur.

19. However, the employee
mindset may not

20. serve you well as a
business owner.

21. In fact, it can work against
you to guarantee

22. that your business never
reaches fruition.

23. As an employee, it is easy

24. to blame others in an
organization

25. for responding too slowly,
for missing opportunity

26. As an entrepreneur, you
are solely responsible for
all things, good or bad.

27. Entrepreneurs create
something from nothing,
with freedom to chart their
path.

28. You are the sole creator of
that destiny.

29. As an employee,

30. you were likely responsible
for delivering tasks

31. or accomplishing short-
term goals,

32. but you were likely not
responsible for the

33. long term goals of the
company

34. As an entrepreneur, you
have to focus on both short
term and long term goals
and your vision for the
company

35. As an employee, you likely
did not make decisions that
had the biggest impact

36. to your company's bottom
line.

37. Also, you likely had a team
of other people

38. you worked with to make
decisions.

39. For the Entrepreneur,

40. Discomfort is the new
reality.

41. You don't have all the
answers,

42. and you likely need to
make quick decisions

43. with very little input from
others.

44. As an employee,

45. you had a narrow scope in
terms of your job.

46. Any training you completed
likely

47. was directly related to your
role

48. As an entrepreneur

49. you have to wear many
hats - project manager,
sales, finance, marketing,
IT, etc.

50. As an employee,

51. you toed the line - following
orders from above.

52. As an entrepreneur,

53. you aren't interested in the
status quo.

54. You always look for ways
to improve.

55. These are some of the key
differences between the
employer and entrepreneur
mindsets

56. Next week we look at the
small business owner
mindset versus the
entrepreneur mindset.